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# décide — French to English

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: décide (82 511), décides (18). By style: everyday 40 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 1 066 · legal and administrative 7 260 · UN documents 74 161.

## decide

Used about 69 834 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 27 · parliamentary ≈ 666 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 389 · UN documents ≈ 62 752). Forms: decide, decided, decides. Meaning: [decide in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/decide/).

- Il faut que je me **décide**.
  I need to **decide**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and GiggyMantis · checked, community translation · [\#11112643](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11112643) [\#11166653](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11166653))

- L'élite **décide** et le public paie.
  The elite **decides**, and the public coughs up.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1385695)

- Elle **décide** de leur composition et de leurs attributions, sur proposition du bureau.
  It shall **decide** on their composition and powers on a proposal from the Bureau.
  ([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 1196218)

- 12. En conséquence, le Comité **décide**:
  12. The Committee therefore **decides**:
  ([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 25471913)

- Je veux que tu **décides**.
  I want you to **decide**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5193367](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5193367) [\#8031303](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8031303))

## More sentences

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

- **Décide**-toi, à la fin ! Soit tu rentres, soit tu sors, mais arrête d'ouvrir cette porte !
  Make up your mind already! Whether you go in or go out, just stop opening this door!
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Yemana and kaiperkins271 · checked, community translation · [\#6824224](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6824224) [\#6821135](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6821135))

- C'est moi qui **décide**.
  I call the shots.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and CM · checked, community translation · [\#3727623](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3727623) [\#9556009](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9556009))

- Tom exige que je me **décide** d'ici demain.
  Tom demands that I make up my mind by tomorrow.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · [\#6910388](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6910388) [\#6909661](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6909661))

## Grammar

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

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