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Meaning: [taken in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/taken/). - Ces chaises sont **prises**. These chairs are **taken**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#3272264](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3272264) [\#3272265](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3272265)) - Seulement, nous pillâmes pour nous le bétail et le butin des villes que nous avions **prises**. Only the livestock we took for plunder for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities which we had **taken**. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 2:35) - Je me félicite des initiatives **prises** par la Commission. I welcome the initiatives being **taken** by the Commission. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1389504) - Les décisions sont **prises** à la majorité des suffrages exprimés. Decisions shall be **taken** by a majority of the votes cast. ([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 2065150) - 9. Différentes mesures ont été **prises**, à savoir: 9. Various measures have been **taken**, including: ([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 11942716) ## measures Used about 28 596 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 1 193 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 344 · UN documents ≈ 26 060). - Les mesures de révision de la PAC tendront à aggraver cette situation, ce qui oblige à repenser les mesures qui sont **prises**. The changes to the CAP will tend to worsen this situation; this requires us to rethink the **measures** set in place. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 482896) - Mesures **prises** par Finnvera **Measures** granted by Finnvera ([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 2767613) - < < Mesures **prises** pour assurer à tous les services de santé et les soins médicaux voulus en cas de maladie > > 8. Government **measures** assuring medical services and medical attention to all in the event of sickness ([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 8064355) - On pourrait aussi évoquer les mesures de restriction des libertés **prises** par les pays arabes face au terrorisme et à la guerre. We might also look at the **measures** restricting freedom in the Arab countries in the face of terrorism and war. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 511646) - Des mesures visant à atténuer les risques sont **prises** s’il y a lieu. Risk mitigation **measures** shall be applied where appropriate. ([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 1758335) ## action Used about 21 494 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 199 · legal and administrative ≈ 448 · UN documents ≈ 20 848). Meaning: [action in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/action/). - Tous les partis politiques irlandais ont exprimé leur inquiétude à ce sujet et j'appelle à ce que des mesures soient **prises** en la matière au sein de cette Assemblée. All political parties in Ireland have expressed concern about this and I urge that we take **action** in relation to it. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 352101) - notifier à tous les exploitants, ou à leurs représentants désignés, les raisons pour lesquelles de telles mesures sont **prises**, si nécessaire ou sur demande. notify all operators, or their designated representatives, of the reason for taking such **action**, if necessary or requested. ([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 5178256) - II. Mesures **prises** par l ' ONU II. **Action** by the United Nations ([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 8566416) - Mme Achmad souhaiterait savoir comment les hommes ont accueilli les mesures **prises** en faveur des femmes rurales, qui peuvent être perçues comme des avantages injustes. 32. Ms. Achmad asked about men ' s attitudes to the **action** directed at helping rural women, which might be seen as offering them unfair advantages. ([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 7865440) - Pour atténuer ces risques, des mesures devaient être **prises** pour promouvoir l ' investissement privé, le secteur public ne suffisant pas à lui seul à fournir tous les investissements nécessaires; To mitigate these risks, policy **action** was needed to promote private investment, since the investments needed could not be covered by the public sector alone; ([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 21465569) ## decisions Used about 11 022 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 596 · UN documents ≈ 10 424). - Voilà les décisions que nous avons **prises**. Here are the **decisions** we've come to. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and verdulo · checked, community translation · [\#2760962](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2760962) [\#1217957](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1217957)) - De toute manière, on peut seulement dire cela de peu de décisions **prises** au Parlement européen. That can be said of very few of our **decisions** in the European Parliament, anyway. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1857503) - Il est apparu que 83 % des décisions **prises** de 2004 à 2006 ont été appliquées et que les dossiers étaient clos. The exercise revealed that 83 per cent of the **decisions** made during the years 2004 to 2006 were implemented and cases were closed. ([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 18086828) - Tom s'engage à ratifier les décisions **prises** par Marie. Tom is committed to ratifying the **decisions** made by Mary. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · [\#6580748](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6580748) [\#6580723](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6580723)) - Les décisions qui ont déjà été **prises** signifient qu’il est pratiquement impossible de réformer complètement la politique agricole avant 2013. **Decisions** that have already been made mean that it is all but impossible to bring about a comprehensive reform of agricultural policy until after 2013. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 629393) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Elles s'y sont bien **prises**. They handled it well. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1557058](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1557058) [\#3668339](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3668339)) - Elles ont été **prises** en flagrant délit. They got caught red-handed. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#5354913](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5354913) [\#1147290](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1147290)) - Vous voudrez peut-être vérifier que ces **prises** électriques sont sécurisées pour les enfants. You might want to childproof those electrical sockets. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2042967](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2042967) [\#2043225](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2043225)) ## 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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