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# compte — French to English

How French *compte* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: compte (739 962), comptes (122 224). By style: everyday 864 · literary 29 · biblical 48 · parliamentary 37 224 · legal and administrative 122 212 · UN documents 701 809.

## account

Used about 272 524 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 173 · literary ≈ 11 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 9 694 · legal and administrative ≈ 72 563 · UN documents ≈ 190 073). Forms: account, accounts. Meaning: [account in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/account/).

- Mettez-le sur mon **compte** !
  Charge it to my **account**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#250616](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/250616) [\#1329202](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1329202))

- Quel **compte** avons-nous à lui demander?
  What **account** have we to demand of him?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30740)

- Ils rendront **compte** à celui qui est prêt à juger les vivants et les morts.
  They will give **account** to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1PE 4:5)

- J'espère que la lumière viendra tant sur les **comptes** européens que dans cet hémicycle.
  I hope that light will be shed both on European **accounts** and on this Chamber.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2042359)

- Numéro du **compte** bancaire du débiteur:
  The creditor's bank **account** number:
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 4075538)

## auditors

Used about 94 536 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 7 755 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 365 · UN documents ≈ 80 416).

- Section V - Cour des **comptes**
  Section V - Court of **Auditors**
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 176799)

- L’article 19 du règlement intérieur de la Cour des **comptes** est remplacé par le texte suivant:
  Article 19 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of **Auditors** is hereby replaced by the following:
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 5141317)

- des commissaires aux **comptes**
  Report of the Board of **Auditors**
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 8516299)

- Qu’en est-il du rapport de la Cour des **comptes** sur les **comptes** de l’UE?
  What about the Court of **Auditors**’ report on the EU accounts?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 742128)

- Contribution de l’Union européenne au financement des dépenses de la Cour des **comptes** pour l’exercice 2020
  Contribution of the European Union to the financing of the expenditure of the Court of **Auditors** for the financial year 2020
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 5058736)

## take

Used about 11 036 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 1 163 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 546 · UN documents ≈ 7 311). Meaning: [take in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/take/).

- Vous devez rendre des **comptes** pour ce que vous avez fait.
  You need to **take** accountability for what you did.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10856448](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10856448) [\#11958393](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11958393))

- Il suffit que ce soit le couvent possible, pour que j'en doive tenir **compte**.
  It is sufficient that it may be the possible convent, that I should **take** notice of it.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11012)

- **Compte** aussi les fils de Guerschon, selon les maisons de leurs pères, selon leurs familles;
  “**Take** a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers’ houses, by their families;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 4:22)

- **Compte** tenu des divergences juridiques entre États, ces mariages et divorces amènent souvent des problèmes particuliers.
  When these marriages **take** place or indeed are dissolved, particular problems frequently arise due to the different laws of the two States.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2031062)

- Les OSC peuvent être exprimés sous la forme de critères d'acceptation des risques ou de niveaux cibles de sécurité et tiennent **compte** en particulier:
  The CSTs may be expressed in terms of risk acceptance criteria or target safety levels and shall **take** into consideration, in particular:
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3899523)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- Lorsque je suis arrivé à la maison, je me suis rendu **compte** que j'avais perdu mon porte-monnaie.
  When I got home, I found I had lost my wallet.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and CK · checked, community translation · [\#24215](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/24215) [\#397301](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/397301))

- Ce n'est pas ce qui **compte**.
  That's not what matters.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and shekitten · checked, community translation · [\#10509952](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10509952) [\#12356257](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12356257))

- Quand ils s'en rendront **compte**, je serai déjà parti.
  When they realise, I will have already left.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sabotage987 and jamesbcn · checked, community translation · [\#6141843](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6141843) [\#6142402](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6142402))

## Grammar

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