take — English to French

How English take is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

What it means: take in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: take (488 087), takes (78 947). By style: everyday 4 743 · literary 189 · biblical 800 · parliamentary 67 478 · legal and administrative 60 797 · UN documents 433 027.

prend

Used about 216 643 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 630 · literary ≈ 42 · biblical ≈ 133 · parliamentary ≈ 13 355 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 033 · UN documents ≈ 189 449). Forms: prend, prendre.

• I will take the lift.

  Je vais prendre l’ascenseur.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and felix63 · checked, community translation · #9957475 #9971351

• And he takes his pen.

  Et il prend sa plume.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14263

• A righteous person is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked takes his place.

  Le juste est délivré de la détresse, Et le méchant prend sa place.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 11:8

• We have three commitments to take into account.

  Nous avons trois types d'engagements à prendre en considération.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 372662

• It shall, in particular, take into account:

  Il prend notamment en compte:

  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 2453291

compte

Used about 47 592 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 49 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 8 435 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 033 · UN documents ≈ 27 064).

• He never takes into account the fact that I am very busy.

  Il ne tient jamais compte du fait que je sois très occupé.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and qdii · checked, community translation · #303731 #133341

• It is sufficient that it may be the possible convent, that I should take notice of it.

  Il suffit que ce soit le couvent possible, pour que j'en doive tenir compte.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11012

• “Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers’ houses, by their families;

  Compte aussi les fils de Guerschon, selon les maisons de leurs pères, selon leurs familles;

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 4:22

• And we want to take account of the new discoveries as they become available.

  Nous voulons en tenir compte.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1788329

• CET takes into account the change to Central European Summer Time.

  L'heure d'Europe centrale tient compte du passage à l'heure d'été d'Europe centrale.

  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 4576188

lieu

Used about 45 102 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 148 · literary ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 8 · parliamentary ≈ 7 029 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 333 · UN documents ≈ 31 575).

• Where does the fair take place?

  Où la foire a-t-elle lieu ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #11253431 #11253436

• In the meanwhile, the public wealth flows away to the river, and leakage takes place.

  En attendant, la richesse publique s'en va à la rivière, et le coulage a lieu.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 27287

• “‘“Adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

  tu as été la femme adultère, qui reçoit des étrangers au lieu de son mari.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 16:32

• The vote will take place at 5.30 p.m.

  Le vote aura lieu à 17h30.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 393742

• Record of the statement that the communication takes place for the purposes of a market sounding.

  Enregistrement de la déclaration précisant que la communication a lieu aux fins d'un sondage de marché.

  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 3994241

More sentences

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

• Take it down a notch, Bob.

  Baisse d'un ton, Robert.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1586688 #1617340

• We'll take off in a few minutes.

  Nous allons décoller dans quelques minutes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #3312119 #11163889

• Don't take everything so literally.

  Ne prenez pas tout au pied de la lettre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Rovo · checked, community translation · #8343226 #12954622

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