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# entrepris — French to English

How French *entrepris* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations 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: entrepris (53 612). By style: everyday 13 · literary 1 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 1 426 · legal and administrative 926 · UN documents 51 244.

## undertaken

Used about 14 663 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 416 · legal and administrative ≈ 367 · UN documents ≈ 13 879).

- Elle a **entrepris** trop de travail.
  She has **undertaken** too much work.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and CM · checked, community translation · [\#315635](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/315635) [\#1949669](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1949669))

- Plusieurs ayant **entrepris** de composer un récit des événements qui se sont accomplis parmi nous,
  Since many have **undertaken** to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 1:1)

- Par ailleurs, la Commission a **entrepris** une étude très approfondie sur le secteur des ferries.
  In addition, the Commission has **undertaken** a very in-depth study on the ferries sector.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 914283)

- Ce changement de comportement ne serait pas **entrepris** en l'absence d'aide.
  The change in behaviour must be one that would not be **undertaken** without the aid.
  ([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 4198421)

- Il demande si la Conseillère spéciale a **entrepris** une telle étude.
  He asked whether the Special Adviser had **undertaken** such a study.
  ([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 13389671)

## efforts

Used about 9 736 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 89 · legal and administrative ≈ 39 · UN documents ≈ 9 608).

- Il faut donc continuer les efforts **entrepris** pour réduire les déficits et ne pas s'arrêter au milieu du gué.
  So we must continue the **efforts** that have been made to reduce deficits, not change horses in midstream.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1598406)

- Le fait que NEUWOGES ait **entrepris** les efforts de privatisation et y ait alloué des ressources est sans importance dans le contexte de la présente affaire.
  The fact that NEUWOGES engaged in the privatisation **efforts** and expended resources on them is not relevant in this context.
  ([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 3477785)

- Des efforts ont également été **entrepris** pour améliorer la santé des Autochtones.
  **Efforts** were also being made to improve the health of indigenous people.
  ([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 21975580)

- Les efforts de consolidation **entrepris** seront soutenus par un audacieux programme de privatisation, comme l'a indiqué le Premier ministre Papandreou.
  The challenging **efforts** of consolidation will be supported by a bold privatisation programme, as indicated by Prime Minister Papandreou.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1512500)

- Tous les efforts doivent être **entrepris** pour réduire les incertitudes dans la modélisation du système de produits \[27\] et la communication des résultats.
  All reasonable **efforts** shall be taken to reduce uncertainties in product system \[27\] modelling and the reporting of results.
  ([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 2840065)

## More sentences

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

- Il me faut finir ce que j'ai **entrepris**.
  I have to finish what I started.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2362105](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2362105) [\#2370515](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2370515))

- Lorsque je l'**entrepris**, elle me claqua la main et me dit de prendre une douche froide.
  When I made my move she slapped me and told me to take a cold shower.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#662952](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/662952) [\#809771](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/809771))

- Il a finalement accompli ce qu'il avait **entrepris**.
  He finally achieved what he set out to do.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1292961](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1292961) [\#5539263](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5539263))

## Grammar

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