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Meaning: [taken in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/taken/). - Vous avez **pris** un jour de congé. You've **taken** a day off. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#8866664](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8866664) [\#2316928](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2316928)) - Chacun avait **pris** son poste de combat. Each man had **taken** up his position for the conflict. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24490) - Il a **pris** avec lui le sac de l’argent, Il ne reviendra à la maison qu’à la nouvelle lune. He has **taken** a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.” ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 7:20) - Parce qu'on a **pris** des mesures. Because we have **taken** measures. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1346084) - Le principe du pollueur-payeur n’est pas absolu, mais doit être «**pris** en considération». The polluter pays principle is not absolute but has to be ‘**taken** 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 3478659) ## took Used about 22 247 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 537 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 37 · parliamentary ≈ 1 413 · legal and administrative ≈ 638 · UN documents ≈ 19 619). - Qui a **pris** mes clés ? Who **took** my keys? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · [\#6738347](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6738347) [\#6681065](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6681065)) - Il avait tout bonnement **pris** sa volée. He simply **took** flight. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 12885) - Il leur disait ces choses ouvertement. Et Pierre, l’ayant **pris** à part, se mit à le reprendre. He spoke to them openly. Peter **took** him and began to rebuke him. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 8:32) - Lors de la réunion du 17 juin à Luxembourg, le Conseil a **pris** acte de la 11e évaluation de la position commune de l'Union européenne concernant Cuba. The Council **took** note of this eleventh review of the EU's common position on Cuba at the meeting on 17 June in Luxembourg. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 349302) - La Commission a **pris** en considération cette information et a révisé le calcul concerné. The Commission **took** this claim into account and revised the calculation concerned. ([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 2891692) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Elles ont **pris** un bain de soleil. They basked in the sun. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2324076](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2324076) [\#2326618](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2326618)) - Nous avons **pris** trop de mauvaises décisions. We've made too many bad decisions. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Yemana and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4500905](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4500905) [\#5685621](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5685621)) - Elle a **pris** la résolution d'arrêter de fumer. She resolved to stop smoking. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and barryo · checked, community translation · [\#5572657](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5572657) [\#2882736](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2882736)) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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