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# decides — English to French

How English *decides* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: decides (60 950). By style: everyday 8 · parliamentary 584 · legal and administrative 2 368 · UN documents 57 990.

## décide

Used about 59 236 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 377 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 072 · UN documents ≈ 56 782).

- Captured by the enemy, he **decides** to commit suicide.
  Capturé par l’ennemi, il **décide** de se suicider.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Orange and Orange · checked, community translation · [\#12406350](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12406350) [\#12406346](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12406346))

- Who **decides** who will join Europe?
  Qui **décide** qui va rejoindre l’Europe?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 788375)

- it **decides** on the investments upon recommendation by the IC.
  c’est lui qui **décide** des investissements, sur recommandation du comité du même nom.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 3782661)

- 6. **Decides** to remain seized of the matter.
  6. **Décide** de rester saisi de la question.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 17695390)

- We can only hope the government **decides** to withdraw its troops.
  Nous pouvons seulement espérer que le gouvernement **décide** de retirer ses troupes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miznia and Dr\_herr · checked, community translation · [\#6152074](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6152074) [\#6155523](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6155523))

## More sentences

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

- I'm the one who **decides** my purpose in life.
  Mon but dans la vie est décidé par moi-même.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by josivangoncalves and josivangoncalves · checked, community translation · [\#8222202](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8222202) [\#8223631](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8223631))

- The leader will be whoever **decides** to accept the designation.
  Le chef sera quiconque en acceptera l'appellation.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#8657072](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8657072) [\#8755964](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8755964))

- Anything the group **decides** is OK is fine with me.
  Quoi que le groupe approuve me va bien.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1196929](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1196929) [\#1196934](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1196934))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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