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# prend — French to English

How French *prend* 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: prend (115 872), prendes (7), prends (4 376). By style: everyday 1 263 · literary 34 · biblical 244 · parliamentary 4 990 · legal and administrative 12 594 · UN documents 101 130.

## take

Used about 31 839 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 645 · literary ≈ 22 · biblical ≈ 112 · parliamentary ≈ 624 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 891 · UN documents ≈ 24 546). Forms: take, takes. Meaning: [take in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/take/).

- Tu **prends** le bus ?
  Do you **take** the bus?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by twentyplus and twentyplus · checked, community translation · [\#14071990](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14071990) [\#14071988](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14071988))

- Et il **prend** sa plume.
  And he **takes** his pen.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14263)

- Lève-toi, lui dit Jésus, **prends** ton lit, et marche.
  Jesus said to him, “Arise, **take** up your mat, and walk.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 5:8)

- Je **prends** l'exemple de la Pologne.
  I **take** Poland as an example.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1783672)

- Elle **prend** effet le jour de son adoption.
  It shall **take** effect on the day of its adoption.
  ([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 770127)

## mr

Used about 19 279 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 624 · UN documents ≈ 18 655). Meaning: [mr in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/mr/).

- Monsieur le Président, je **prends** la parole pour soutenir votre proposition.
  **Mr** President, I have taken the floor in order to support the request and I am satisfied with your response.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 61332)

- M. Taalas (Finlande) (parle en anglais) : Je **prends** la parole au nom de l &apos; Union européenne.
  **Mr**. Taalas (Finland): I am speaking on behalf of the European Union.
  ([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 14873600)

- Monsieur le Président de la Banque centrale, je **prends** la parole au nom des radicaux italiens.
  **Mr** President of the Central Bank, I am speaking on behalf of the Italian Radical Members.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2020581)

- M. Abdelaziz (Égypte) (parle en anglais) : Je **prends** la parole pour présenter une motion d &apos; ordre.
  **Mr**. Abdelaziz (Egypt): I am taking the floor on a point of order.
  ([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 16560857)

- . - Monsieur le Président, je **prends** de temps à autre contact avec le père Hector Turrini, et inversement.
  . **Mr** President, every so often I am in touch with Father Hector Turrini and he with me.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 705271)

## note

Used about 14 007 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 040 · legal and administrative ≈ 203 · UN documents ≈ 12 764). Meaning: [note in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/note/).

- Je **prends** acte de votre demande.
  I have taken **note** of your request.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 76902)

- La Commission **prend** acte du texte de l'article 11 convenu entre le Parlement européen et le Conseil sur les mesures provisoires.
  The Commission takes **note** of the text of Article 11 agreed by the European Parliament and the Council on interim measures.
  ([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 4858660)

- La Commission **prend** note du document A/49/640.
  The Committee took **note** of document A/49/640.
  ([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 1242289)

- La Commission en **prend** acte avec plaisir.
  The Commission is pleased to take **note** of this.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 922868)

- Le Président (parle en anglais) : J &apos; en **prends** note.
  The Chairman: I take **note** of that.
  ([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 13297360)

## More sentences

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

- Quand on **prend** une mauvaise habitude, il peut être difficile de s'en débarrasser.
  Once you've got into a bad habit, it can be difficult to get out of it.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Barbiche0 and autuno · checked, community translation · [\#28636](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28636) [\#350868](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/350868))

- Cela **prend** un peu plus de temps que ce que j'avais prévu.
  It's taking a little longer than I expected.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dr\_herr and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#5481131](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5481131) [\#10602407](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10602407))

- Tom **prend** quelques jours de congé.
  Tom is taking a few days off.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1488736](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1488736) [\#1497417](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1497417))

## 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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