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# prennent — French to English

How French *prennent* 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: prennent (41 528). By style: everyday 85 · literary 5 · biblical 27 · parliamentary 2 618 · legal and administrative 6 536 · UN documents 32 257.

## take

Used about 17 506 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 35 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 873 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 493 · UN documents ≈ 12 096). Meaning: [take in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/take/).

- **Prennent**-elles soin du chien ?
  Do they **take** care of the dog?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#306458](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/306458) [\#1342504](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1342504))

- --Les chevaux **prennent** toute la place.
  “The horses **take** up all the space.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 1286)

- Ils parlent de toi d’une manière criminelle, Ils **prennent** ton nom pour mentir, eux, tes ennemis!
  For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies **take** your name in vain.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 139:20)

- Les processus d'intégration **prennent** beaucoup de temps.
  Integration processes **take** a long time.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1039920)

- Ils **prennent** en compte notamment:
  Member States shall in particular **take** into account:
  ([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 4226266)

## taking

Used about 2 973 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 273 · UN documents ≈ 2 688).

- Nos plans **prennent** forme.
  Our plans are **taking** shape.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Swift · checked, community translation · [\#23422](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/23422) [\#9531](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9531))

- On rend le prix des voitures inabordable pour que les gens **prennent** le bus.
  Cars are being rendered unaffordable, as people should be **taking** the bus.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1333765)

- Par ailleurs, des organisations non gouvernementales **prennent** aussi des dispositions.
  On another front, non-governmental organizations are **taking** action as well.
  ([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 11815643)

- Ils nous **prennent** pour des idiots.
  They're **taking** us for fools.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and adamtrousers · checked, community translation · [\#3524881](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3524881) [\#3526774](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3526774))

- Les éleveurs de bétail grecs sont désespérés; ils **prennent** des mesures pour exiger une aide substantielle pour les aider à survivre.
  Greek livestock farmers are in despair; they are **taking** action to demand substantial aid to help them survive.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 981558)

## More sentences

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

- En allemand, tous les noms **prennent** une majuscule.
  In German, all nouns are capitalized.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ricardo14 and 6dDcHYgMAg · checked, community translation · [\#9725241](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9725241) [\#9765532](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9765532))

- Les Japonais **prennent** trois repas par jour.
  Japanese eat three meals a day.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by spiritofwonder and CN · checked, community translation · [\#418502](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/418502) [\#129777](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/129777))

- Les gagnants ne **prennent** pas de drogue.
  Winners don't use drugs.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#827236](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/827236) [\#1180390](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1180390))

## Grammar

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