Le relevé de compte indique aussi le prélèvement.

Relevé de compte is a fixed expression meaning account statement or bank statement.

In French, de + noun is often used to name a type of thing, not a specific possession. So:

• un relevé de compte = an account statement
• un numéro de téléphone = a telephone number
• une carte de crédit = a credit card

If you said du compte, that would sound more like a statement of the account in a more specific, less standard way. In normal banking French, relevé de compte is the usual phrase.

French uses articles much more often than English.

Here, le relevé de compte means the account statement, and le prélèvement means the direct debit / the withdrawal. The definite article is used because the sentence is talking about specific, identifiable things, not just any statement or any payment.

French normally requires an article before nouns in cases where English might sometimes leave it out.

Relevé de compte usually means account statement or bank statement.

• relevé = statement, record, summary
• compte = account

So the whole phrase refers to the document that lists activity on a bank account.

Depending on context, English might translate it as:

• bank statement
• account statement
• statement of account

Indique is the third-person singular present tense of indiquer.

So:

• indiquer = to indicate, to show, to state, to mention
• il/elle indique = it indicates / it shows

In this sentence, the subject is Le relevé de compte, which is singular, so the verb is indique.

In natural English, this could be translated in several ways depending on context:

• shows
• indicates
• lists
• mentions

Aussi means also or too.

In French, aussi is often placed before the part of the sentence it is modifying. Here it comes before le prélèvement, so the idea is:

• the statement indicates something else,
• and it also indicates the direct debit.

This placement is very normal in French.

You could think of the structure as:

• Le relevé de compte indique = The account statement shows
• aussi = also
• le prélèvement = the direct debit / withdrawal

Prélèvement can have a few related meanings, depending on context.

In banking, it often means:

• direct debit
• withdrawal
• deduction
• charge taken from an account

If this is a banking sentence, le prélèvement most often refers to a payment automatically taken from the account, especially a direct debit.

So in many real-life contexts, this sentence would be understood as saying that the bank statement also shows the direct debit.

Not exactly.

• paiement = payment in general
• prélèvement = money taken from an account, often automatically

A prélèvement is a more specific kind of transaction. It focuses on the fact that the money is deducted or withdrawn from the account.

So every prélèvement involves money leaving the account, but it is not just the general word for payment.

Because relevé de compte is the standard banking expression.

French often uses de in set noun expressions to describe the type or category of something. So:

• un relevé de compte = an account statement
• un solde de compte = an account balance

Using du compte would make it sound more like you are emphasizing of the account, rather than using the normal fixed term.

So the sentence uses the standard phrase: Le relevé de compte.

Sometimes, but shows or indicates is usually better here.

For a document like a bank statement:

• indique often means shows
• sometimes states
• sometimes lists

Using says is possible in informal English, but it is less precise. For a formal or financial document, shows or indicates sounds more natural.

A rough English-friendly guide is:

pray-lev-mahn

A few points:

• pré sounds roughly like pray
• lève has an eh sound, not ee
• ment at the end is usually pronounced like a nasal mahn, not like English ment

Also, the final t is silent.

So do not pronounce it like prelevement in English. The nasal ending is important in French pronunciation.