took — English to French

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: took (135 011). By style: everyday 1 509 · literary 210 · biblical 698 · parliamentary 6 858 · legal and administrative 5 451 · UN documents 120 285.

pris

Used about 38 781 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 409 · biblical ≈ 44 · parliamentary ≈ 1 429 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 817 · UN documents ≈ 35 083).

• She took a shower.

  Elle a pris une douche.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Joseph and Amastan · checked, community translation · #3983903 #2316952

• He spoke to them openly. Peter took him and began to rebuke him.

  Il leur disait ces choses ouvertement. Et Pierre, l’ayant pris à part, se mit à le reprendre.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 8:32

• It is no use just saying that we took the right decisions.

  Cela ne sert à rien de dire qu'on a pris les bonnes décisions.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1458306

• The European Commission took note of the Andorran position.

  La Commission européenne a pris acte de la position de l'Andorre.

  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 211471

• (a) Took note of document IDB.39/4;

  a) A pris note du document IDB.39/4;

  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 24863821

eu

Used about 24 290 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 714 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 022 · UN documents ≈ 22 553).

• That dialogue took place.

  Ce dialogue a eu lieu.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1086929

• Those hearings took place on 15 May 2018, 15 June 2018, and 17 January 2019.

  Ces auditions ont eu lieu le 15 mai 2018, le 15 juin 2018 et le 17 janvier 2019.

  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 4827190

• The missions took place in July and August 1995.

  Les missions ont eu lieu en juillet et en août 1995.

  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 3059725

• (SV) Mr President, as a former fellow Member stated, a significant referendum took place in Portugal yesterday.

  (SV) Monsieur le Président, comme l'a déclaré un orateur précédent, un référendum historique a eu lieu hier au Portugal.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 905397

• On 12 December 2012 a technical meeting took place between the Commission and the Spanish authorities.

  Le 12 décembre 2012, une réunion technique a eu lieu entre les autorités espagnoles et la Commission.

  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 3467002

président

Used about 20 619 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 572 · UN documents ≈ 20 048).

• (PL) Mr President, today I would like to speak of an incident that recently took place in Warsaw.

  (PL) Monsieur le Président, j'aimerais parler aujourd'hui d'un incident survenu récemment à Varsovie.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1093510

• In the absence of the President, Mr. Tommo Monthe (Cameroon), Vice-President, took the Chair.

  En l ' absence du Président, M. Tommo Monthe (Cameroun), Vice-Président, assume la présidence.

  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 19785839

• President of the Commission. - Mr President, I will answer two concrete questions and also make a general remark after the debate that took place this morning.

  Monsieur le Président, je répondrai à deux questions précises et je ferai aussi une remarque générale après le débat de ce matin.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1442101

• On the proposal of the Chair, the Commission took note of documents E/CN.9/2013/6 and E/CN.9/2013/CRP.1.

  Sur la proposition du Président, la Commission prend note des documents E/CN.9/2013/6 et E/CN.9/2013/CRP.1.

  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 28475918

• Mr President, before leaving for Strasbourg, the pensioners who took me to the airport asked me "Is there going to be a debate about beer on Friday morning?"

  Monsieur le Président, avant mon départ pour Strasbourg, les retraités qui m'ont accompagné à l'aéroport, m'ont demandé s'il l'on parlerait de bière vendredi matin.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2050835

m

Used about 2 761 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 94 · literary ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 143 · UN documents ≈ 2 506).

• She took hold of my hand to teach me.

  Elle m'a saisi la main pour m'instruire.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1638589 #1639043

• But without stopping to look up new arguments I simply took up our situation such as it was.

  Mais, sans m'arrêter à chercher des arguments nouveaux, je me bornai à prendre la situation telle qu'elle était.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2152

• It took me some time to decide on the right position to take on this controversial Working Time Directive.

  Il m'a fallu un certain temps pour décider de la bonne position à adopter sur cette directive sur le temps de travail controversée.

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• 49. Mr. Alston took the Chair.

  49. M. Alston prend la présidence.

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• It took me several hours to draw it.

  Il m'a fallu quelques heures pour le dessiner.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · #1742004 #3448067

lieu

Used about 57 times in the texts (literary ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 44).

• This trellis-work took the place of curtains.

  C'est ce grillage qui tenait lieu de rideaux.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20851

• He stayed there that night, and took from that which he had with him a present for Esau, his brother:

  C’est dans ce lieu-là que Jacob passa la nuit. Il prit de ce qu’il avait sous la main, pour faire un présent à Ésaü, son frère:

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 32:13

• It was here, too, that this memorable dialogue took place:—

  C'est encore là qu'eut lieu ce dialogue mémorable:

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10519

• Yes, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the army; and it took away from him the continual burnt offering, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.

  Elle s’éleva jusqu’au chef de l’armée, lui enleva le sacrifice perpétuel, et renversa le lieu de son sanctuaire.

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

• The result of these shades was a dazzling pleasure party which took place on the following Sunday, the four young men inviting the four young girls.

  Le résultat de ces ténèbres fut une éblouissante partie de plaisir qui eut lieu le dimanche suivant, les quatre jeunes gens invitant les quatre jeunes filles.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 2765

More sentences

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

• She took something out of her bag.

  Elle a sorti quelque chose de son sac.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ddnktr and lbdx · checked, community translation · #10841676 #10971279

• He took the rubbish out.

  Il a sorti les poubelles.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Amastan · checked, community translation · #9937664 #2317065

• She took the book back to the library.

  Elle a rapporté le livre à la bibliothèque.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and nimfeo · checked, community translation · #270692 #2131277

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