prennent — French to English

How French prennent is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: prennent (41 528). By style: everyday 85 · literary 5 · biblical 27 · parliamentary 2 618 · legal and administrative 6 536 · UN documents 32 257.

take

Used about 17 506 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 35 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 873 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 493 · UN documents ≈ 12 096). Meaning: take in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Prennent-elles soin du chien ?

  Do they take care of the dog?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #306458 #1342504

• --Les chevaux prennent toute la place.

  “The horses take up all the space.”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 1286

• Ils parlent de toi d’une manière criminelle, Ils prennent ton nom pour mentir, eux, tes ennemis!

  For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 139:20

• Les processus d'intégration prennent beaucoup de temps.

  Integration processes take a long time.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1039920

• Ils prennent en compte notamment:

  Member States shall in particular take into account:

  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 4226266

taking

Used about 2 973 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 273 · UN documents ≈ 2 688).

• Nos plans prennent forme.

  Our plans are taking shape.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Swift · checked, community translation · #23422 #9531

• On rend le prix des voitures inabordable pour que les gens prennent le bus.

  Cars are being rendered unaffordable, as people should be taking the bus.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1333765

• Par ailleurs, des organisations non gouvernementales prennent aussi des dispositions.

  On another front, non-governmental organizations are taking action as well.

  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 11815643

• Ils nous prennent pour des idiots.

  They're taking us for fools.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and adamtrousers · checked, community translation · #3524881 #3526774

• Les éleveurs de bétail grecs sont désespérés; ils prennent des mesures pour exiger une aide substantielle pour les aider à survivre.

  Greek livestock farmers are in despair; they are taking action to demand substantial aid to help them survive.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 981558

More sentences

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

• En allemand, tous les noms prennent une majuscule.

  In German, all nouns are capitalized.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ricardo14 and 6dDcHYgMAg · checked, community translation · #9725241 #9765532

• Les Japonais prennent trois repas par jour.

  Japanese eat three meals a day.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by spiritofwonder and CN · checked, community translation · #418502 #129777

• Les gagnants ne prennent pas de drogue.

  Winners don't use drugs.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · #827236 #1180390

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