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C'était sa **décision**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#1771407](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1771407) [\#6379216](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6379216)) - The lot is cast into the lap, but its every **decision** is from the LORD. On jette le sort dans le pan de la robe, Mais toute **décision** vient de l’Éternel. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 16:33) - The Council **decision** will be respected. La **décision** du Conseil sera respectée. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 598309) - HAS ADOPTED THIS **DECISION**: A ADOPTÉ LA PRÉSENTE **DÉCISION**: ([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 303537) - **Decisions** of the Commission **Décisions** de la Commission ([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 7673249) ## prendre Used about 399 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 398). - Here again, he was obliged to come to a **decision**; should he go to the right or to the left. Ici encore il fallait se décider; **prendre** à droite ou à gauche. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9742) - It was, of course, after having my consent that she took the **decision** - namely the contacts she had with the German Government asking for clarification. Il va de soi que c'est après avoir obtenu mon consentement qu'elle a décidé de **prendre** contact avec le gouvernement allemand pour obtenir des clarifications. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1290680) ## conseil Used about 398 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 398). - Mr President, President-in-Office of the Council, President of the Commission, the Helsinki Summit will go down in history because of the **decisions** that were taken there. Monsieur le Président, Monsieur le Président du **Conseil**, Monsieur le Président de la Commission, la réunion au sommet de Helsinki restera dans l'histoire en raison de ses conclusions. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2044026) ## prise Used about 398 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 398). - This will follow on from a sitting of your parliament, and the **decision** will be taken on the basis of the strict application of the one or more treaties. Elle fera suite à une période de session de votre Parlement et sera **prise** sur la base d'une stricte application du/des traité(s). ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1796329) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Let's see how the negotiations play out before making our **decision**. Voyons voir comment les négociations tournent avant de décider. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1471196](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1471196) [\#1476674](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1476674)) - It's your **decision**. C'est ton choix. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and rene1596 · checked, community translation · [\#641449](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/641449) [\#1248218](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1248218)) - We made the **decision** together. Nous avons décidé ensemble. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3312689](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3312689) [\#6400124](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6400124)) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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