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# contient — French to English

How French *contient* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: contient (67 076). By style: everyday 139 · literary 6 · biblical 9 · parliamentary 4 223 · legal and administrative 9 536 · UN documents 53 163.

## contains

Used about 39 202 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 96 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 639 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 556 · UN documents ≈ 29 904). Forms: contain, contained, contains.

- **Contient**-il du beurre ?
  Does it **contain** butter?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · [\#6588601](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6588601) [\#8679850](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8679850))

- Le deuxième **contient** la question du salaire.
  The second **contains** the question of salary.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18277)

- Ainsi parle le Seigneur, l’Éternel: Tu boiras la coupe de ta sœur, Tu la boiras large et profonde; Elle te rendra un objet de risée et de moquerie; Elle **contient** beaucoup.
  “The Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink of your sister’s cup, which is deep and large. You will be ridiculed and held in derision. It **contains** much.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 23:32)

- Le rapport **contient** de nombreuses propositions à cet effet.
  The report **contains** many proposals to that effect.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 587219)

- § 2 Le mémoire en réponse **contient**:
  § 2 A response shall **contain**:
  ([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 628401)

## More sentences

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

- Ça **contient** une part de vérité.
  There's some truth to it.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2300582](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2300582) [\#8949977](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8949977))

- On ne peut pas boire d'eau de mer parce qu'elle **contient** trop de sel.
  You can't drink seawater because it is too salty.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and Mouseneb · checked, community translation · [\#387567](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/387567) [\#1836553](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1836553))

- Combien de mots **contient** votre vocabulaire Toki Pona ?
  How many words does your Toki Pona vocabulary have?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10704112](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10704112) [\#10704126](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10704126))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/).

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