Count : Verbe (word from latin compute « calculate », also at theorigin to tell stories (see matters).
The verb “count” has several meanings:
I) Transitive verb:
1. Determine (a amount) speak calculation ; specially :
Establish le name of (encrypt, enumerate, number).
Do le matters.
Count the spectators of a theater, the inhabitants of a city (count).
Count the voice, the votes.
Count the sheep : to fall asleep more easily.
Count a sum ofmoney.
Count the points : judge who is victorious in a struggle.
Count the shots ; figuratively : observer remaining neutral.
How many did you count?
Count the sons of a fabric (thread count), drops (dropper).
Apparatus who counts something (counter).
There are thousands of them: there are thousands of them.
We no longer count them: they are innumerable.
We count them on the fingers of the main.
2. Measure the performance of their campaigns with share.
Count themoney that we spent (regarder to the spent).
Adjectival past participle: Walk with measured steps, slowly, solemnly.
3. By extension: Count a sum to someone, pay it to them.
You will charge him two hundred euros for his job.
4. Measure the performance of their campaigns (The time).
Count the days, hours.
– Quote from the French-speaking American writer Julien Green (1900-1998): “She had counted the minutes second by second to the tick-tock of the black cartel”.
Specially: Count the hours, days : us le time long, out of boredom or impatience.
Phrase: Do not count your hours : work beaucoup.
5. Have tough (some time).
He already has two years of reign, service.
Things: This monument has more than a hundred years ofexistence.
Phrase: His days are numbered: he has little left time à vivre .
Le time is counted: there is little left time.
6. Provide, assess (a amount, a longer term,).
It takes two days travel.
You have to count a hundred grams by no one.
Without complement: Count large, Fair.
7. Understand in an account, a total, an enumeration (include).
There were four of them, not counting the children.
N 'forget not to count the margin.
Specially: Charge.
Le for boys a forget it to (us) count the cafes.
Count among, at name of: creak in the number of (understand, encompass).
I count him among my top as a group.
8. Include.
This city has two million inhabitants.
9. Aged meaning: Count (something) for (consider, to estimate, take, regarder, reputate).
This counts for a lot (appreciate).
– Quote from the French novelist, playwright, letter writer, literary critic and journalist George Sand, pen name of Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin de Francueil, Baroness Dudevant (1804-1876): “The sorrows which only had their effect on my own existence, I count them today for nothing”.
10. Hope, think. He intends to be able leave tomorrow.
I should hope so.
I expected that he would (s'wait, believe).
11. Besides: without consider that (notwithstanding; all the more so).
Not to mention that he can still to change byopinion.
II) Intransitive verb:
1. Calculate.
Count from head (mentally).
Count on your fingers.
This child knows how to read, write and count.
He already knows how to count to ten.
Figurative meaning: He counts penny by penny, to the nearest penny.
Not to mention: generously, widely.
Give, spend without counting.
2. Count with, without (someone, something): to have, do not to have matters of.
He hasinfluence and he must be reckoned with.
Count with theopinion.
3. Count on: build onsupport on (table).
Count on me.
To rely entirely on someone, to surrender to them.
Don't count on me for that.
We can't count on it: it's not reliable (It's a rotten board).
He relies too much on his chance (assume -of-).
I'm counting on your participation (wait).
Colloquial and ironic meaning: Count on it (and wood de l 'water [fresh]): don't count on it.
4 Haveimportance (import).
It matters little, it doesn't matter.
Only the result compte.
It's'intention who counts.
Absolute: The gens that matter.
Event counting towards the championship.
5. To be counted, évalué.
A année who counts double.
Scrabble: the word counts double
This fault counts as two points (cost).
Pet: Count for butter, prunes, be considered negligible.
6. To be (among) (to figure).
This author is among the most great.
7. Aged meaning: to date.
Modern meaning: From: to leave of.
Counting from today.
III) Reflexive pronominal verb: Count yourself
Put yourself in the number of.
I don't count myself in name its as a group.
Passive verb: To be counted.
Your benefits they can no longer be counted, they are innumerable.
There are thousands, there are thousands.
Opposite of count: neglect; omit.