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# compter — French to English

How French *compter* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: comptaient (2 277), comptait (11 808), compte (739 962), comptent (9 705), compter (74 333), comptes (122 224), comptez (471), comptons (2 021), compté (1 736), comptée (291), comptées (380), comptés (579). By style: everyday 1 276 · literary 55 · biblical 93 · parliamentary 42 225 · legal and administrative 150 171 · UN documents 771 967.

## count

Used about 183 737 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 354 · literary ≈ 10 · biblical ≈ 29 · parliamentary ≈ 4 973 · legal and administrative ≈ 46 111 · UN documents ≈ 132 260). Forms: count, counted. Meaning: [count in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/count/).

- Vous ne **comptez** pas.
  You don't **count**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and CK · checked, community translation · [\#9161369](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9161369) [\#9165768](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9165768))

- --Eh! c'est bien à cela que nous **comptons** arriver!
  “That’s just what we **count** on doing.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1456)

- Dieu n’a-t-il pas connu mes voies? N’a-t-il pas **compté** tous mes pas?
  Doesn’t he see my ways, and **count** all my steps?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 31:4)

- Mes collègues et moi-même les avons **comptées**.
  My colleagues and I **counted** them.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1464995)

- Après six semaines, les vers éclos sont **comptés**.
  After six weeks, the newly hatched worms are **counted**.
  ([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 3936272)

## there

Used about 64 766 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 2 356 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 362 · UN documents ≈ 58 032). Meaning: [there in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/there/).

- L'univers **compte** des milliers d'étoiles.
  **There** are thousands of stars in the universe.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by megamanenm and megamanenm · checked, community translation · [\#11509275](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11509275) [\#11509281](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11509281))

- Pour mon **compte**, je pensais qu'il n'y avait absolument rien, mais je gardai prudemment mon opinion.
  As for me, I was of opinion that **there** was nothing at all, in it; though, of course, I took care not to say so.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 153)

- et lui dirent: Tes serviteurs ont fait le **compte** des soldats qui étaient sous nos ordres, et il ne manque pas un homme d’entre nous.
  They said to Moses, “Your servants have taken the sum of the men of war who are under our command, and **there** lacks not one man of us.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 31:49)

- Il y a cent-vingt ans, le monde **comptait** 1,6 milliards d'habitants.
  One hundred and twenty years ago **there** were 1.6 billion people in the world.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 327966)

- En ce qui concerne Acron Group, celui-ci **comptait** un producteur d'UAN actif en Russie.
  In the case of Acron Group, **there** was one producer of UAN in the group operating in Russia.
  ([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 4932610)

## More sentences

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

- Tu peux toujours **compter** sur moi.
  You can always rely on me.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3733018](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3733018) [\#603672](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/603672))

- Vous pouvez **compter** sur lui. Il ne vous laisse jamais tomber.
  You can rely on him. He never lets you down.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and mamat · checked, community translation · [\#15978](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/15978) [\#1409621](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1409621))

- Je veux simplement que vous sachiez tous que vous pouvez **compter** sur moi.
  I just want you all to know you can depend on me.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2033844](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2033844) [\#2466434](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2466434))

## Grammar

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