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# decisions — English to French

How English *decisions* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations 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: decisions (197 391). By style: everyday 70 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 13 279 · legal and administrative 20 515 · UN documents 163 525.

## décisions

Used about 174 707 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 67 · parliamentary ≈ 11 896 · legal and administrative ≈ 19 660 · UN documents ≈ 143 084). Forms: décision, décisions.

- Who's making the **decisions**?
  Qui prend les **décisions** ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2892887](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2892887) [\#7045050](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7045050))

- We made three crucial **decisions**.
  Nous avons adopté trois **décisions** importantes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 383434)

- Delegated own funds **decisions**
  **Décisions** déléguées en matière de fonds propres
  ([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 5098331)

- **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)

- I make my own **decisions**.
  Je prends mes propres **décisions**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2380458](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2380458) [\#11566562](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11566562))

## prises

Used about 427 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 427).

- All its **decisions** are taken by a simple majority of the votes cast, except where they involve any contractual obligation with a value of more than EUR 10000.
  Toutes ses délibérations sont **prises** à la majorité simple des suffrages exprimés, sauf lorsqu’elles concernent tout engagement contractuel supérieur à 10000 euros.
  ([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 5111407)

## concernant

Used about 277 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 277).

- Firstly: absolute compliance with the UN' s **decisions** on the area.
  La première : respect absolu des résolutions de l' ONU **concernant** la région.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 39850)

## 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 capable of making my own **decisions**.
  Je suis capable de faire mes propres choix.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and LeFaune · checked, community translation · [\#4464819](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4464819) [\#4465422](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4465422))

- To make informed **decisions** we need sufficient information.
  Il faut suffisamment d’informations pour décider en connaissance de cause.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and gillux · checked, community translation · [\#3186449](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3186449) [\#8608154](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8608154))

- According to the **decisions** of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn away from the sentence which they announce to you, to the right hand, nor to the left.
  Tu te conformeras à la loi qu’ils t’enseigneront et à la sentence qu’ils auront prononcée; tu ne te détourneras de ce qu’ils te diront ni à droite ni à gauche.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 17:11)

## Grammar

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