comment

English

Etymology

From Middle English coment, from Old French coment (“commentary”), from Late Latin commentum, from comminisci (“to invent”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmɛnt/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmɛnt/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

comment (plural comments)

1. A spoken or written remark.

   I have no comment on that.

   Pay attention to the teacher's comments in the margin of your marked essay.

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     “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action.

   • 2015 November 30, Shane O'Mara, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation‎^[1], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 12:

     Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative" (Summers 2011).

2. (programming) A remark in source code which does not affect the behavior of the program.

Translations

spoken remark

• Albanian: koment (sq) m
• Arabic: تَعْلِيق m (taʕlīq), مَلْحُوظَة f (malḥūẓa)
• Armenian: մեկնաբանություն (hy) (meknabanutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: izah (az), fikir (az), şərh (az)
• Basque: irazkin
• Belarusian: камента́р m (kamjentár)
• Bulgarian: комента́р (bg) m (komentár), бележка (bg) f (beležka)
• Catalan: comentari (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 評論／评论 (zh) (pínglùn), 评论 (zh) (pínglùn)

• Crimean Tatar: tefsir
• Czech: komentář (cs) m
• Danish: kommentar (da) c, bemærkning c
• Dutch: commentaar (nl)
• Esperanto: komento
• Estonian: kommentaar
• Finnish: kommentti (fi), huomautus (fi), välihuomautus (fi)
• French: commentaire (fr) m
• Galician: comentario m, comento m
• Georgian: კომენტარი (ḳomenṭari)
• German: Kommentar (de) m
• Greek: σχόλιο (el) n (schólio), παρατήρηση (el) f (paratírisi)

  Ancient: σχόλιον n (skhólion)

• Hindi: टिप्पणी (hi) f (ṭippaṇī)
• Hungarian: megjegyzés (hu), hozzászólás (hu), komment
• Icelandic: athugasemd (is) f
• Ido: komenturo (io)
• Indonesian: komentar (id)
• Italian: commento (it) m
• Japanese: コメント (ja) (komento), 論評 (ろんぴょう, ronpyō)
• Kazakh: түсіндірме (tüsındırme), түсінік (tüsınık)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 논평 (nonpyeong), 코멘트 (komenteu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kyrgyz: түшүндүрмө (ky) (tüşündürmö), чечмелөө (cecmelöö), комментарий (kommentariy)
• Latvian: komentārs m
• Lithuanian: komentaras m
• Low German: Kommentar n
• Macedonian: коментар m (komentar)
• Maori: huatau, pito kōrero, tākupu
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kommentar (no) m, merknad m

  Nynorsk: kommentar m, merknad m

• Persian: نظر (fa) (nazar), تفسیر (fa) (tafsir)
• Polish: komentarz (pl) m
• Portuguese: comentário (pt) m
• Romanian: comentariu (ro) n
• Russian: коммента́рий (ru) m (kommentárij), замеча́ние (ru) n (zamečánije), ко́ммент (ru) m (kómment) (Internet neologism)
• Scottish Gaelic: abairt f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: опаска, коментар m

  Roman: opaska (sh) f, komentar (sh) m

• Slovak: komentár m
• Slovene: komentar m
• Spanish: comentario (es) m
• Swedish: kommentar (sv) c
• Tajik: шарҳ (tg) (šarh), эзоҳ (ezoh), тафсир (tg) (tafsir)
• Telugu: వ్యాఖ్య (te) (vyākhya)
• Thai: คำติชม (kam-dtì-chom)
• Turkish: yorum (tr), tefsir (tr)
• Turkmen: düşündiriş
• Ukrainian: комента́р m (komentár)
• Uzbek: izoh (uz), mulohaza (uz), fikr (uz)
• Vietnamese: lời bình luận (vi)

programming: remark not affecting behavior

• Bulgarian: комента́р (bg) m (komentár)
• Catalan: comentari (ca) m
• Czech: komentář (cs) m
• Danish: kommentar (da) c
• Dutch: commentaar (nl)
• Finnish: kommentti (fi)
• German: Kommentar (de) m
• Greek: σχόλιο (el) n (schólio)
• Hungarian: megjegyzés (hu)
• Icelandic: athugasemd (is) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: commento (it) m
• Persian: کامنت (kâment)
• Polish: komentarz (pl) m
• Portuguese: comentário (pt) m
• Russian: коммента́рий (ru) m (kommentárij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: коментар m

  Roman: komentar (sh) m

• Spanish: comentario (es) m
• Turkish: açıklama (tr)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} تعليق
• French: ^{(please verify)} commentaire (fr) m
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} הערה f (he'ara) (1)
• Hindi: ^{(please verify)} कहना (hi) m (kahnā)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} komento (io)
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} comentariu (ro) n
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} kommentar (sv) c
• Urdu: ^{(please verify)} کہنا m (kahnā)

See also

• pragma

Verb

comment (third-person singular simple present comments, present participle commenting, simple past and past participle commented)

1. (transitive) To remark.
   • Template:RQ:Frgsn Zlnstn

     “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

   • Template:RQ:EHough PrqsPrc

     "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there. […]."

   • 2003 July 5, Pierre Salinger, ABC News, “Analysis: Top film choices”, in NPR_Saturday:

     I think Mamet always comments that commerce really comes down to just a confidence game
2. (intransitive, with "on" or "about") To make remarks or notes.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To comment or remark on.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)

4. (transitive, software, of code) To insert comments into (source code).

   I wish I'd commented this complicated algorithm back when I remembered how it worked.

5. (transitive, software, of code) To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

Derived terms

remark

• commentary
• commentate
• commentator

programming: insert comments

• comment out
• uncomment

Translations

to comment — see observe

to remark

• Arabic: عَلَّقَ (ʕallaqa)
• Armenian: մեկնաբանել (hy) (meknabanel)
• Basque: irazkindu
• Belarusian: каменці́раваць impf (kamjencíravacʹ)
• Bulgarian: коментирам (bg) (komentiram)
• Catalan: comentar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 評論／评论 (zh) (pínglùn), 评论 (zh) (pínglùn)

• Czech: komentovat (cs)
• Danish: kommentere
• Dutch: becommentariëren (nl)
• Esperanto: komenti
• Finnish: kommentoida (fi), huomauttaa (fi)
• French: commenter (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: kommentieren (de)
• Greek: σχολιάζω (el) (scholiázo)
• Hebrew: הֵעִיר (he) (he'ír)
• Hungarian: hozzászól (hu), megjegyez (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Indonesian: mengomentari (id)
• Japanese: 論評する (ろんぴょうする, ronpyō-suru)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: коментира impf (komentira)
• Maori: huatau, tākupu
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: kommentere (no)
• Polish: komentować (pl)
• Portuguese: comentar (pt), mencionar (pt)
• Russian: комменти́ровать (ru) impf (kommentírovatʹ), прокомменти́ровать (ru) pf (prokommentírovatʹ)
• Slovak: komentovať impf
• Spanish: comentar (es)
• Swedish: kommentera (sv)
• Telugu: వ్యాఖ్యానించు (vyākhyāniñcu)
• Thai: ติชม (dtì-chom)
• Ukrainian: коментува́ти impf (komentuváty)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

programming: to insert comments

• Catalan: comentar (ca)
• Czech: komentovat (cs)
• Danish: kommentere
• Dutch: becommentariëren (nl)
• Finnish: kommentoida (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Kommentare einfügen
• Greek: σχολιάζω (el) (scholiázo)
• Polish: komentować (pl), zakomentować
• Portuguese: comentar (pt)
• Russian: комменти́ровать (ru) impf (kommentírovatʹ), закомменти́ровать (ru) pf (zakommentírovatʹ)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} علّق ب
• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} mainima
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} להעיר (le'ha'yr) (1)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} comentar (es)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} kommentera (sv)

See also

• document

Further reading

• “comment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “comment”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “comment”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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French

Etymology

comme +‎ -ment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.mɑ̃/

• Audio (France, Paris):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑ̃

Adverb

comment

1. how

   Comment te sens-tu ? ― How do you feel?

Derived terms

• comment allez-vous, comment vas-tu, comment ça va (“how are you”)

Descendants

• → German: Komment
• Louisiana Creole: konmen

Further reading

• “comment”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle French

Alternative forms

• cõment

Adverb

comment

1. how (in a given manner)
2. (interrogative) how (in what manner)

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Old French

Adverb

comment

1. Alternative form of comant

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English comment.

Noun

comment m (plural s)

1. (Internet slang) comment, remark

Synonyms

• comentário