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# tient — French to English

How French *tient* 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: tient (68 956), tients (1). By style: everyday 192 · literary 19 · biblical 30 · parliamentary 3 967 · legal and administrative 6 254 · UN documents 58 495.

## account

Used about 13 659 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 331 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 778 · UN documents ≈ 9 550). Meaning: [account in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/account/).

- Sur ce point très précis, la directive **tient** compte des souhaits, mais également de la protection des consommateurs.
  On this particular point, the directive manages to take **account** of both the wishes of consumers and the need to protect them.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 300270)

- L’analyse des risques **tient** compte en particulier:
  The risk analysis shall in particular take **account** of:
  ([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 1338980)

- Chacune de ces règles **tient** compte des principes de nécessité militaire et d &apos; humanité.
  In each of these rules military necessity and humanity have been taken into **account**.
  ([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 13402955)

- C'est une vision purement économique qui ne **tient** absolument pas compte de la dimension humaine et, à ce titre, je ne peux l'accepter.
  This is a purely economic vision, which absolutely fails to take into **account** the human dimension, and in this respect I cannot accept it.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1796515)

- L’examen des demandes **tient** compte en particulier:
  The examination of requests 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 374612)

## takes

Used about 893 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 16 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 744 · legal and administrative ≈ 130). Forms: take, takes.

- Il **tient** de son père.
  He **takes** after his father.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#303368](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/303368) [\#3641980](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3641980))

- Ceux de nos lecteurs qui seraient tentés de voir dans cette interpellation de Gavroche au boulanger un mot russe ou polonais, ou l'un de ces cris sauvages que les Yoways et les Botocudos se lancent du bord d'un fleuve à l'autre à travers les solitudes, sont prévenus que c'est un mot qu'ils disent tous les jours (eux nos lecteurs) et qui **tient** lieu de cette phrase: qu'est-ce que c'est que cela?
  Those of our readers who might be tempted to espy in this interpellation of Gavroche’s to the baker a Russian or a Polish word, or one of those savage cries which the Yoways and the Botocudos hurl at each other from bank to bank of a river, athwart the solitudes, are warned that it is a word which they \[our readers\] utter every day, and which **takes** the place of the phrase: “Qu’est-ce que c’est que cela?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 20596)

- Et la voix, que j’avais entendue du ciel, me parla de nouveau, et dit: Va, prends le petit livre ouvert dans la main de l’ange qui se **tient** debout sur la mer et sur la terre.
  The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, “Go, **take** the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · REV 10:8)

- Comme le rapport en **tient** compte, j'ai voté pour.
  As the report **takes** this into account, I have voted in favour of it.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1432318)

- Si l'utilisateur se **tient** très près du mur, son corps occupe bien entendu une plus grande part de ce demi-cercle et la probabilité est plus élevée.
  Of course, if the user were standing very close to the wall, his body would **take** a larger share of the half-sphere, and the probability would be higher.
  ([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 5667775)

## More sentences

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

- Ma maison se **tient** sur une colline.
  My house is on a hill.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Apex and belgavox · checked, community translation · [\#1152407](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1152407) [\#7814](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7814))

- Je n'ai jamais vu de femme plus séduisante que celle qui se **tient** devant moi en ce moment.
  I've never seen a more enticing woman than the one standing in front of me right now.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and patgfisher · checked, community translation · [\#2888776](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2888776) [\#10496865](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10496865))

- On se **tient** au courant.
  We'll keep in touch.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and CM · checked, community translation · [\#1402217](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1402217) [\#3271756](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3271756))

## Grammar

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