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# step — English to French

How English *step* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [step in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/step/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: step (72 365), steps (128 506). By style: everyday 235 · literary 97 · biblical 44 · parliamentary 19 179 · legal and administrative 11 058 · UN documents 170 258.

## mesures

Used about 59 972 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 2 797 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 189 · UN documents ≈ 54 979).

- Please take the necessary **steps**.
  Veuillez prendre les **mesures** nécessaires.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13429902](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13429902) [\#13429892](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13429892))

- However, some important **steps** first need to be taken:
  Cependant, d'importantes **mesures** doivent être prises au préalable:
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1979821)

- The central administrator shall take all reasonable **steps** to ensure that:
  L’administrateur central prend toutes les **mesures** raisonnables pour que:
  ([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 2457335)

- B. Possible **steps** for addressing the recommendations
  B. **Mesures** à envisager pour donner suite aux recommandations
  ([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 5995777)

- We need to take **steps** to rectify the situation.
  Nous devons prendre des **mesures** pour rectifier la situation.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#7732677](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7732677) [\#10812752](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10812752))

## étape

Used about 35 066 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 37 · parliamentary ≈ 3 197 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 456 · UN documents ≈ 28 376). Forms: étape, étapes.

- This is a crucial **step**.
  C'est une **étape** cruciale.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#11887614](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11887614) [\#9129754](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9129754))

- This standard is a logical and very welcome **step**.
  La norme proposée constitue une **étape** logique et absolument bienvenue.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1388350)

- single-**step** type-approval (1)
  réception par type en une seule **étape** (1)
  ([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 3612595)

- **Step** 1: from the national Risk Management Groups to the AETR- EU RMG
  **Étape** no 1: Groupes nationaux de gestion des risques
  ([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 15509684)

- This is an important **step**.
  C'est une **étape** importante.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#5074315](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5074315) [\#9129755](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9129755))

## More sentences

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

- Would you please **step** back?
  Pourriez-vous reculer, s'il vous plaît ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2543893](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2543893) [\#11226319](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11226319))

- Take the first **step**.
  Fais le premier pas.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and slahatuvelli · checked, community translation · [\#13542139](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13542139) [\#13520944](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13520944))

- Without being hasty, it's important to move onwards **step** by **step**.
  Sans se précipiter, il est important de procéder pas à pas.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#11911273](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11911273) [\#11911272](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11911272))

## 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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