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# mesure — French to English

How French *mesure* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: mesure (372 710), mesures (1 060 343). By style: everyday 385 · literary 14 · biblical 75 · parliamentary 70 997 · legal and administrative 238 094 · UN documents 1 123 488.

## measure

Used about 637 956 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 144 · literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 40 · parliamentary ≈ 32 540 · legal and administrative ≈ 148 809 · UN documents ≈ 456 417). Forms: measure, measures. Meaning: [measure in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/measure/).

- Comment **mesures**-tu cela ?
  How do you **measure** that?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zarisi and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · [\#6681854](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6681854) [\#8352841](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8352841))

- Ils se considérèrent un moment dans cette pénombre, comme s'ils se prenaient **mesure**.
  They surveyed each other for a moment in that half-gloom, as though taking each other’s **measure**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28083)

- Comblez donc la **mesure** de vos pères.
  Fill up, then, the **measure** of your fathers.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 23:32)

- Il s'agit d'une **mesure** cruciale.
  This is a crucial **measure**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 356058)

- **Mesure** du débattement des gouvernes;
  **Measure** of controls deflection;
  ([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 4671541)

## able

Used about 31 413 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 88 · parliamentary ≈ 2 958 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 960 · UN documents ≈ 23 406). Meaning: [able in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/able/).

- Vous ne seriez pas en **mesure** de le dire.
  You wouldn't be **able** to tell.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2426506](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2426506) [\#2426507](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2426507))

- Une devise doit être stable et nous devons être en **mesure** de prouver sa stabilité.
  A currency must be stable and we must be **able** to demonstrate its stability.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1795827)

- Il convient que les exploitants d’aéronefs qui souhaitent continuer à se conformer à ces exigences soient en **mesure** de le faire.
  Aircraft operators who wish to continue to comply with those requirements should be **able** to do so.
  ([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 2803993)

- Le Gouvernement espère dès lors être en **mesure** de fournir au Comité des données pertinentes utiles à l &apos; avenir.
  The Government therefore hoped to be **able** to provide the Committee with useful relevant data in future.
  ([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 17017008)

- Sera-t-il en **mesure** de venir demain ?
  Will he be **able** to come tomorrow?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#68116](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/68116) [\#483948](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/483948))

## take

Used about 22 860 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 16 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 3 698 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 440 · UN documents ≈ 11 703). Meaning: [take in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/take/).

- Veuillez prendre les **mesures** nécessaires.
  Please **take** the necessary steps.
  ([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))

- Cent **mesures** d’huile, répondit-il. Et il lui dit: Prends ton billet, assieds-toi vite, et écris cinquante.
  He said, ‘A hundred batos of oil.’ He said to him, ‘**Take** your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 16:6)

- Il s'agit d'une **mesure** radicale mais nous répondons ainsi à ce que disait à juste titre M. Dankert.
  This is a radical step to **take**, but it is our response to what Mr Dankert so rightly said.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1744387)

- Aux fins du calcul mentionné au paragraphe 1, les établissements prennent les **mesures** suivantes:
  For the purposes of the calculation referred to in paragraph 1, institutions shall **take** the following steps:
  ([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 3320335)

- Il est primordial que les États Membres prennent contre les changements climatiques des **mesures** propres à renforcer la sécurité et le système multilatéral.
  79. It is critical that Member States **take** action to address climate change in ways that bolster security and strengthen the multilateral system.
  ([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 19879905)

## More sentences

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

- Je recommande l'élimination de cette phrase au bout de deux semaines, dans la **mesure** où personne ne s'y oppose.
  I recommend that this sentence be deleted after two weeks, as long as there is no objection by then.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and patgfisher · checked, community translation · [\#3029083](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3029083) [\#4660107](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4660107))

- Elle affirme être en **mesure** de voir à travers les murs.
  She says that she can see through walls.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#2020403](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2020403) [\#2022305](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2022305))

- Dans une certaine **mesure**, je suis d'accord avec ce que tu dis.
  I agree with what you say to some extent.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#67182](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/67182) [\#457137](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/457137))

## 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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