prend — French to English

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: prend (115 872), prendes (7), prends (4 376). By style: everyday 1 263 · literary 34 · biblical 244 · parliamentary 4 990 · legal and administrative 12 594 · UN documents 101 130.

take

Used about 31 839 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 645 · literary ≈ 22 · biblical ≈ 112 · parliamentary ≈ 624 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 891 · UN documents ≈ 24 546). Forms: take, takes. Meaning: take in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Tu prends le bus ?

  Do you take the bus?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by twentyplus and twentyplus · checked, community translation · #14071990 #14071988

• Et il prend sa plume.

  And he takes his pen.

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

• Lève-toi, lui dit Jésus, prends ton lit, et marche.

  Jesus said to him, “Arise, take up your mat, and walk.”

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 5:8

• Je prends l'exemple de la Pologne.

  I take Poland as an example.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1783672

• Elle prend effet le jour de son adoption.

  It shall take effect on the day of its adoption.

  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 770127

mr

Used about 19 279 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 624 · UN documents ≈ 18 655). Meaning: mr in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Monsieur le Président, je prends la parole pour soutenir votre proposition.

  Mr President, I have taken the floor in order to support the request and I am satisfied with your response.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 61332

• M. Taalas (Finlande) (parle en anglais) : Je prends la parole au nom de l ' Union européenne.

  Mr. Taalas (Finland): I am speaking on behalf of the European Union.

  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 14873600

• Monsieur le Président de la Banque centrale, je prends la parole au nom des radicaux italiens.

  Mr President of the Central Bank, I am speaking on behalf of the Italian Radical Members.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2020581

• M. Abdelaziz (Égypte) (parle en anglais) : Je prends la parole pour présenter une motion d ' ordre.

  Mr. Abdelaziz (Egypt): I am taking the floor on a point of order.

  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 16560857

• . - Monsieur le Président, je prends de temps à autre contact avec le père Hector Turrini, et inversement.

  . Mr President, every so often I am in touch with Father Hector Turrini and he with me.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 705271

note

Used about 14 007 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 040 · legal and administrative ≈ 203 · UN documents ≈ 12 764). Meaning: note in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je prends acte de votre demande.

  I have taken note of your request.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 76902

• La Commission prend acte du texte de l'article 11 convenu entre le Parlement européen et le Conseil sur les mesures provisoires.

  The Commission takes note of the text of Article 11 agreed by the European Parliament and the Council on interim measures.

  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 4858660

• La Commission prend note du document A/49/640.

  The Committee took note of document A/49/640.

  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 1242289

• La Commission en prend acte avec plaisir.

  The Commission is pleased to take note of this.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 922868

• Le Président (parle en anglais) : J ' en prends note.

  The Chairman: I take note of that.

  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 13297360

More sentences

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

• Quand on prend une mauvaise habitude, il peut être difficile de s'en débarrasser.

  Once you've got into a bad habit, it can be difficult to get out of it.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Barbiche0 and autuno · checked, community translation · #28636 #350868

• Cela prend un peu plus de temps que ce que j'avais prévu.

  It's taking a little longer than I expected.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dr_herr and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #5481131 #10602407

• Tom prend quelques jours de congé.

  Tom is taking a few days off.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Spamster · checked, community translation · #1488736 #1497417

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