action — English to French

How English action is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

What it means: action in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: action (581 010), actions (167 489). By style: everyday 184 · literary 23 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 40 552 · legal and administrative 50 577 · UN documents 657 157.

action

Used about 344 047 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 90 · literary ≈ 17 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 25 345 · legal and administrative ≈ 37 933 · UN documents ≈ 280 661). Forms: action, actions.

• Let's take action.

  Passons à l'action.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Fenrir and Fenrir · checked, community translation · #11759422 #11759421

• He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant magnetic action.

  Il dirigeait tout par une sorte d'action magnétique invisible et continuelle.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 8111

• “Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for the LORD is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

  Ne parlez plus avec tant de hauteur; Que l’arrogance ne sorte plus de votre bouche; Car l’Éternel est un Dieu qui sait tout, Et par lui sont pesées toutes les actions.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 2:3

• Stockholm Action Plan (debate)

  Plan d'action de Stockholm (débat)

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1389147

• Actions of the Erasmus programme

  Actions du programme Erasmus

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 872327

mesures

Used about 221 279 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 3 802 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 268 · UN documents ≈ 212 207).

• Without a moment's hesitation, they took drastic action against the conspiracy.

  Sans un instant d'hésitation, ils prirent des mesures draconiennes contre la conspiration.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and hortusdei · checked, community translation · #40497 #1479944

• There are many questions about what actions to take now.

  De nombreuses questions se posent concernant les mesures à prendre maintenant.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1419747

• ACTIONS TO AVOID OR MINIMISE LOSSES

  MESURES VISANT À ÉVITER LES PERTES OU À LES RÉDUIRE AU MINIMUM

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 4589660

• Safeguard measures, emergency actions

  Mesures de sauvegarde, mesures d ' urgence

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 14343730

• They cannot wait another two or three months for action.

  Ils ne peuvent attendre deux ou trois mois de plus que des mesures soient prises.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1898201

actes

Used about 16 368 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 36 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 112 · legal and administrative ≈ 527 · UN documents ≈ 13 691).

• I don't regret my actions.

  Je ne regrette pas mes actes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by DJ_Saidez and Quonpi · checked, community translation · #9169180 #645809

• His ideas seemed to be like his actions; he suggested them, promised them, sketched them, hinted at them, but never fully uttered them.

  Ses idées semblaient pareilles à ses actes; il les indiquait, les promettait, les esquissait, les suggérait, mais ne les énonçait pas.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 474

• But if you will go, take action, and be strong for the battle. God will overthrow you before the enemy; for God has power to help, and to overthrow.”

  Si tu vas avec eux, quand même tu ferais au combat des actes de vaillance, Dieu te fera tomber devant l’ennemi, car Dieu a le pouvoir d’aider et de faire tomber.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 25:8

• Let actions follow tomorrow.

  Que ces paroles soient suivies d'actes demain.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1157747

• As of autumn 2012, Ali Abdullah Saleh had reportedly become one of the primary supporters of violent Huthi actions in northern Yemen.

  À compter de l'automne 2012, Ali Abdullah Saleh serait devenu l'un des principaux défenseurs des actes de violence commis par les Houthis dans le nord du Yémen.

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 3638333

plan

Used about 7 690 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 845 · UN documents ≈ 6 845).

• We must - and I would say this both to Mrs Angelilli and to Mrs Járóka - also take real action at national level.

  Et il faut, je le dis à Madame Angelilli et à Madame Járóka également, que nous agissions beaucoup au plan national.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1172664

• Many of the accepted recommendations are indeed already integral part of the current national human rights action plan.

  Bon nombre de ces recommandations ont d ' ores et déjà été incorporées dans le plan.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 25756410

• The European Union has a duty to take a leading role in this and to ensure that real action is taken.

  L’Union européenne a le devoir de jouer un rôle de premier plan à cet égard et de garantir que des mesures concrètes soient prises.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 560599

prises

Used about 7 268 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 422 · UN documents ≈ 6 845).

• Unless they do so, revocation action will have to be taken in the absence of agreement or dialogue.

  Dans le cas contraire, il convient que des sanctions de nullité soient prises s'il n'y a ni concertation, ni dialogue.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1690225

• 5. Action by the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session:

  5. Décisions prises par l ' Assemblée générale à sa quarante-huitième session :

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 1380121

More sentences

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

• Some men are slained, others wounded, others reported missing in action.

  Certains hommes sont tués, d'autres blessés, et d'autres sont déclarés disparus au combat.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and qdii · checked, community translation · #722571 #722614

• Instead of fretting, take action.

  Au lieu de te faire du souci, agis.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and lbdx · checked, community translation · #5726333 #10061862

• I leave it in your hands what course of action to take.

  Je vous laisse décider quelle ligne de conduite adopter.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Swift and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #38912 #1183941

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