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# taken — English to French

How English *taken* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: taken (451 304). By style: everyday 375 · literary 106 · biblical 279 · parliamentary 32 013 · legal and administrative 50 868 · UN documents 367 663.

## pris

Used about 125 533 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 141 · literary ≈ 18 · biblical ≈ 87 · parliamentary ≈ 5 336 · legal and administrative ≈ 12 717 · UN documents ≈ 107 235). Forms: pris, prise.

- This seat is **taken**.
  Ce siège est **pris**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2280437](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2280437) [\#8362048](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8362048))

- Each man had **taken** up his position for the conflict.
  Chacun avait **pris** son poste de combat.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24490)

- Thus God has **taken** away your father’s livestock, and given them to me.
  Dieu a **pris** à votre père son troupeau, et me l’a donné.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 31:9)

- I believe that these matters will be **taken** into account in the forthcoming action plan.
  Je crois que ces points seront **pris** en considération dans le futur plan d'action.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 412160)

- the choice made for the pantograph head geometry shall be **taken** into account:
  La géométrie des archets choisie doit être **prise** en compte:
  ([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 3421779)

## mesures

Used about 74 784 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 2 668 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 179 · UN documents ≈ 68 937).

- We are calling for measures that were, fortunately, **taken** some time ago.
  On revendique des **mesures** qui ont été prises, heureusement, depuis longtemps.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1025050)

- The results of the investigation shall be used to re-examine the measures **taken**.
  Les résultats de celles-ci sont utilisés aux fins du réexamen des **mesures** prises.
  ([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 1867648)

- Action **taken** by the Commission
  **Mesures** prises par 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 20704261)

- It will also need to be **taken** into account when the future set-aside rate and the options for rural development measures are discussed.
  Il convient également d'en tenir compte dans le cadre des futurs taux de gel et des options pour les **mesures** destinées au développement rural.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1978817)

- a detailed description of the measures already **taken** and those planned to comply with this Decision;
  une description détaillée des **mesures** déjà prises et prévues pour se conformer à 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 1717017)

## prendre

Used about 14 223 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 47 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 3 335 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 179 · UN documents ≈ 7 660).

- I had my photograph **taken**.
  Je me suis fait **prendre** en photo.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Whidou · checked, community translation · [\#258375](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/258375) [\#14771](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14771))

- “I ought to have **taken** my gun,” said he to himself.
  --J'aurais dû **prendre** mon fusil! se dit-il.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9187)

- The time when decisions could be **taken** behind closed doors has passed.
  Le temps est révolu où les décisions pouvaient se **prendre** dans le secret des chancelleries.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 68927)

- RISK FACTORS TO BE **TAKEN** INTO ACCOUNT IN GOOD AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES (GAP)
  FACTEURS DE RISQUE À **PRENDRE** EN COMPTE DANS LES BONNES PRATIQUES AGRICOLES (BPA)
  ([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 881027)

- X. Action to be **taken** by the General Assembly at its fifty-second session
  X. Décision que doit **prendre** l’Assemblée générale à sa cinquante-deuxième session
  ([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 4396857)

## More sentences

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

- It has **taken** them 20 years to like to read books.
  Il lui a fallu 20 ans pour aimer les livres.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#10516997](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10516997) [\#10516995](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10516995))

- And in a moment we smashed up what it had **taken** us years to build.
  Et un instant démolit ce que nous avions bâti durant des années.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1679771](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1679771) [\#1680350](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1680350))

- They were **taken** prisoner.
  Ils ont été faits prisonniers.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#307524](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/307524) [\#1335926](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1335926))

## 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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