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# prenant — French to English

How French *prenant* 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: prenant (66 544), prenante (1 200), prenantes (60 664), prenants (5). By style: everyday 28 · literary 24 · biblical 36 · parliamentary 2 265 · legal and administrative 6 546 · UN documents 119 514.

## stakeholders

Used about 55 752 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 613 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 000 · UN documents ≈ 52 137). Forms: stakeholder, stakeholders.

- La partie **prenante** la plus profondément affectée par cette décision est le président-directeur général.
  The **stakeholder** most deeply affected by this decision is the chief executive officer.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#6990764](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6990764) [\#8657399](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8657399))

- Toutes les parties **prenantes** doivent participer à ces mesures.
  All **stakeholders** are to be included in these measures.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 897251)

- Relations avec les parties **prenantes** externes
  Relations with external **stakeholders**
  ([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 2478658)

- 5. Les parties **prenantes** devant participer au processus
  5. **Stakeholders** to participate in the process
  ([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 20340400)

- Quel est le degré de transparence pour que les parties **prenantes** puissent participer?
  How much transparency can be expected in order for **stakeholders** to participate?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1429152)

## taking

Used about 18 235 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 14 · literary ≈ 15 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 315 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 046 · UN documents ≈ 16 844).

- Il se suicida en **prenant** du poison.
  He committed suicide by **taking** poison.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#612957](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/612957) [\#762422](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/762422))

- --En **prenant** des chevaux de poste?
  “By **taking** two post-horses?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5483)

- mais s’est dépouillé lui-même, en **prenant** une forme de serviteur, en devenant semblable aux hommes; et ayant paru comme un simple homme,
  but emptied himself, **taking** the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PHI 2:7)

- L'UE a toute possibilité de montrer la voie en **prenant** des mesures pour réduire ses émissions de CO2.
  The EU has every opportunity to lead the way in **taking** action to reduce CO2 emissions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1354858)

- en **prenant** des mesures pour préserver l'intégrité du statut de Rome.
  **taking** measures to preserve the integrity of the Rome Statute.
  ([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 265271)

## involved

Used about 5 807 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 267 · legal and administrative ≈ 727 · UN documents ≈ 4 813). Meaning: [involved in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/involved/).

- L'Europe est partie **prenante** dans la région.
  Europe is **involved** in the region.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1676085)

- Indique qu’une non-IFM est partie **prenante** à la fusion.
  This specifies that a non-MFI is **involved** in the merger.
  ([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 1782901)

- À son avis, les États devraient être partie **prenante** dans l &apos; élaboration des rapports.
  In his view, States should be **involved** in the drafting of reports.
  ([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 14889834)

- La Commission étant partie **prenante**, les États membres sont donc concernés.
  The Commission is a member of that, Member States are **involved**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 556867)

- Indique qu’une IFM est partie **prenante** à une fusion transfrontalière.
  This specifies that an MFI is **involved** in a cross-border merger.
  ([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 1782898)

## More sentences

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

- Il ne gagnait pas grand-chose en **prenant** sa retraite.
  He didn't gain much by retiring.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and bekindtoall · checked, community translation · [\#10251216](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10251216) [\#914739](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/914739))

- Tu peux te débarrasser de ton rhume en **prenant** ce médicament.
  You can get rid of the cold if you take this medicine.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rene1596 and CM · checked, community translation · [\#56559](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/56559) [\#1191053](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1191053))

- En **prenant** le cavalier, le fou a mis le roi de l'adversaire en échec.
  The bishop took the knight, putting the opponent's king in check.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10067214](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10067214) [\#10067254](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10067254))

## 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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