Le kilométrage est dans le rapport.

In French, nouns usually need an article much more often than in English. So le kilométrage is the normal way to say the mileage.

French often uses an article where English might leave it out, especially in complete sentences. The same thing happens with le rapport for the report.

Kilométrage usually means mileage, especially for a vehicle. It refers to the number of kilometers a car has traveled.

Depending on context, it can mean:

• the vehicle’s total mileage
• the recorded distance in kilometers
• the odometer figure

So in this sentence, it most likely means the mileage information listed in the report.

Est is the il/elle/on form of the verb être (to be).

Here, the subject is Le kilométrage, which is singular, so French uses singular est:

• Le kilométrage est... = The mileage is...

If the subject were plural, you would use sont:

• Les informations sont dans le rapport.

Dans means in or inside.

In this sentence, dans le rapport means the information is contained in the report. French commonly uses dans for something included in a document.

So:

• dans le rapport = in the report

English sometimes says on the report, but French usually prefers dans when talking about information contained within a document.

Yes, very close.

French sentence structure here is:

• Le kilométrage = subject
• est = verb
• dans le rapport = prepositional phrase

So it follows the same basic pattern as English:

• The mileage / is / in the report

That makes this sentence fairly straightforward for an English speaker.

A helpful approximate pronunciation is:

kee-loh-may-trazh

A bit more carefully:

• ki
• lo
• mé
• trage with the j sound from measure

The accented é in kilométrage gives a clear ay sound.

The accent in é is called an accent aigu.

It tells you that the vowel is pronounced like ay, not like a silent e or a more neutral vowel sound.

So:

• mé sounds like may

Accents in French are part of the spelling, so they are not optional in standard writing.

Often yes, but not always.

Rapport can mean report, especially in formal or professional contexts:

• an inspection report
• a police report
• a written report

But in other contexts, rapport can also have other meanings, such as relationship or connection, depending on the phrase.

In Le kilométrage est dans le rapport, it clearly means a written report.

Yes. Le kilométrage est dans le rapport is understandable, but in real life French, people might often use a more specific verb, for example:

• Le kilométrage figure dans le rapport.
  = The mileage appears in the report.

• Le kilométrage est indiqué dans le rapport.
  = The mileage is indicated in the report.

• Le kilométrage est mentionné dans le rapport.
  = The mileage is mentioned in the report.

Your sentence is grammatically correct, but these alternatives can sound a little more natural depending on context.

Yes, kilométrage is based on kilomètres, so it naturally suggests kilometers.

In practice, French often still uses kilométrage as the standard word for a vehicle’s mileage/odometer reading because kilometers are the normal unit in French-speaking contexts.

If you needed to be very precise about miles, you would usually make that explicit rather than rely on kilométrage alone.