undertake — English to French

How English undertake is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: undertake in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: undertake (58 487), undertakes (6 352). By style: everyday 3 · literary 2 · parliamentary 1 719 · legal and administrative 4 480 · UN documents 58 635.

engage

Used about 7 852 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 394 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 960 · UN documents ≈ 5 497).

• I undertake to do that.

  Je m'engage à le faire.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by curtisdavid and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · #1055125 #3794279

• The Commission undertakes to take into account the spirit of Amendment No 5.

  La Commission s’engage à tenir compte de l’esprit de l’amendement 5.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 573320

• In this respect the requesting Member State hereby undertakes

  À cet égard, l'État membre qui fait la demande s'engage à:

  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 3104326

• In pursuing the objective of the Act, the regional administration undertakes to:

  Pour atteindre cet objectif, l ' administration régionale s ' engage à :

  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 10398049

• The Commission undertakes that in five years' time it will report back to you on these changes.

  La Commission s'engage à vous rendre compte de l'effet de ces changements dans un délai de cinq ans.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1183443

entreprendre

Used about 7 180 times in the texts (literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 179 · legal and administrative ≈ 280 · UN documents ≈ 6 719).

• Later on he had abandoned everything, in order to “undertake Paris.”

  Depuis, il avait tout quitté pour «entreprendre Paris».

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15689

• We need to undertake the necessary institutional improvements and changes.

  Nous devons entreprendre les nécessaires améliorations et modifications institutionnelles.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 895138

• undertake an investigation or prosecution of specific acts;

  d’entreprendre une enquête ou des poursuites sur des faits précis;

  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 1678545

• Capacity of national Governments to undertake social policies

  Capacité des gouvernements nationaux à entreprendre des politiques sociales

  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 11361723

• There are not a few in the scientific world who envy my success, and many would be ready to undertake this enterprise, to whom our return should be the first news of it."

  Je ne manque pas d'envieux dans le monde des savants, et beaucoup voudraient entreprendre ce voyage, qui ne s'en douteront qu'à notre retour.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 429

More sentences

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

• Here is a gentleman whom by chance I met, Upon agreement from us to his liking, Will undertake to woo curst Katharine.

  Voici un monsieur que j'ai rencontré par hasard et qui accepte de courtiser la détestable Catarina.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #10300140 #10300154

• He always shows great determination in everything he undertakes.

  Il fait toujours preuve d'une grande détermination dans tout ce qu'il entreprend.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by _undertoad and lbdx · checked, community translation · #2266039 #12180719

• In order to be able to undertake it, however, further significant investment is needed.

  Pour pouvoir le réaliser, cependant, de nouveaux investissements substantiels sont nécessaires.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 872755

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