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# représente — French to English

How French *représente* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: représente (68 051). By style: everyday 43 · literary 6 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 9 831 · legal and administrative 10 141 · UN documents 48 029.

## represents

Used about 22 337 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 13 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 2 253 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 056 · UN documents ≈ 19 011). Forms: represent, represents.

- Que **représente** ce tableau ?
  What does this painting **represent**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sharptoothed · checked, community translation · [\#2958878](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2958878) [\#3655185](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3655185))

- Être ultra; ce mot, quoique ce qu'il **représente** n'ait peut-être pas disparu, ce mot n'a plus de sens aujourd'hui.
  To be ultra; this word, although what it **represents** may not have disappeared, has no longer any meaning at the present day.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 13341)

- Le rôle accru d' Europol **représente** certainement une avancée décisive dans ce contexte.
  The enhanced role of Europol certainly **represents** a major step forward in this context.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 167393)

- Au début de chaque section, on trouve également une icône qui **représente** visuellement son intitulé, comme suit:
  Each section shall further be headed by icons that visually **represent** the content of the respective section heading, as follows:
  ([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 4368447)

- i **Représente** des intérêts créditeurs pour 2007.
  i **Represents** interest income for 2007.
  ([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 21824719)

## stands

Used about 6 130 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 127).

- J'ignore ce que ce symbole **représente**.
  I don't know what this symbol **stands** for.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#59741](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/59741) [\#7089134](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7089134))

- Le code «ZZ» **représente** «autres origines».
  Code ‘ZZ’ **stands** for ‘of other origin’.
  ([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 3394067)

- Un homme qui ne **représente** rien s'entichera de n'importe quoi.
  A man who **stands** for nothing will fall for anything.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#1191216](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1191216) [\#1196076](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1196076))

- « STIMM » **représente** science, technologies, ingénierie, mathématiques et médecine.
  STEMM **stands** for science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by marioo and marioo · checked, community translation · [\#8771166](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8771166) [\#8771165](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8771165))

- Le code «999» **représente** «autres origines».
  Code ‘999’ **stands** for ‘of other origin’.
  ([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 1052295)

## per

Used about 5 208 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 205 · UN documents ≈ 5 003). Meaning: [per in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/per/).

- Cela **représente** 137 euros par personne pour l'ensemble de la population mondiale.
  This is EUR 137 **per** capita for the total population of 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 944551)

- Elle ne s &apos; élève cette année qu &apos; à 4 %, ce qui **représente** une faible hausse.
  The increase that year had been a modest 4 **per** cent.
  ([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 13594372)

- — La zone saharienne ou désertique au nord, qui **représente** 46,7 % du territoire national et ne reçoit que 50 mm de pluie par an.
  The Saharan or desert zone in the north, which accounts for 46.7 **per** cent of the national territory and has an annual rainfall of only 50 mm;
  ([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 4114134)

- D &apos; après les estimations les plus récentes, le pourcentage de femmes employées actuellement dans des organismes publics en Irlande du Nord **représente** près de 32 %.
  The latest figures for the percentage of women currently serving on public bodies in Northern Ireland is almost 32 **per** cent.
  ([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 16998611)

- Le Gouvernement britannique a pris cette mesure qui **représente** une augmentation en termes réels de 28 % de l &apos; aide au développement au cours des trois prochaines années.
  The British Government has taken this step, with a real-terms increase of 28 **per** cent in development aid over the next three years.
  ([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 4638959)

## code

Used about 1 001 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 001). Meaning: [code in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/code/).

- Du moins le projet de code de la personne et de la famille **représente**-t-il un progrès et améliore la situation difficile des Maliennes.
  The draft Personal and Family **Code** at least represented a step forward in improving the difficult situation of Malian women.
  ([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 15155192)

## More sentences

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

- Merci. Vous n'avez aucune idée de ce que ça **représente** pour moi.
  Thanks. You have no idea how much this means to me.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3098688](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3098688) [\#13457652](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13457652))

- L'économie kényane repose toujours sur l'agriculture, qui **représente** un tiers du PIB.
  Agriculture remains the backbone of the Kenyan economy, contributing one-third of GDP.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and The\_World\_Factbook · checked, community translation · [\#8906149](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8906149) [\#10351410](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10351410))

- La famille **représente** le noyau de la société.
  The family is the basic unit of society.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#24075](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/24075) [\#10683097](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10683097))

## Grammar

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