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1. take Verb, transitive (a) (=pick up, take hold of, acquire, consume) prendre; to ~ a photo prendre une photo; to ~ a photo of sb/sth prendre qn/qch en photo, prendre une photo de qn/qch; to ~ the bus/train prendre le bus/le train; are you taking the car? (=are you usuing it?) tu prends la voiture?; (=are you travelling by car?) tu y vas en voiture?; do you ~ sugar? tu prends du sucre?; I took a tablet j'ai pris un cachet; for the notion of from, off, French generally uses à to ~ sth from sb, (Infml) to ~ sth off sb prendre qch à qn, enlever qch à qn, ôter qch à qn; when expressing take from, French uses the preposition that represents the place where the object was before it was taken to ~ sth from one's bag, to ~ sth out of one's bag prendre qch dans son sac; he took it out of the cupboard il l'a pris dans l'armoire; I took it off the shelf je l'ai pris sur le rayon (b) (=seize forcefully) saisir; I took him by the throat je l'ai saisi à la gorge, je lui ai saisi la gorge (c) (=bring as a gift etc) apporter; I'll ~ her a present je vais lui apporter un cadeau (d) (=bring along) object, camera prendre, amener; person, friend, children amener; shall I ~ the camera? je prends (or) j'amène l'appareil-photo?; I took my camera (with me) j'ai amené mon appareil-photo; I'll ~ the children (with me) j'amène les enfants; I took her to the doctor's je l'ai amenée chez le médecin; to ~ sb to hospital transporter qn à l'hôpital; seven people needed to be ~n to hospital sept personnes ont dû être transportées à l'hôpital (e) (with it: assume) présumer, supposer (that, que); I ~ it that... je présume que..., je suppose que...; do I ~ it that you're not coming? est-ce que je présume bien que vous ne viendrez pas?; vous ne viendrez pas, si je présume bien? (f) it's common for take to be used with a noun in English where French uses the corresponding verb to ~ action agir; to ~ bets parier; to ~ offence s'offenser (at, de); to ~ revenge se venger (g) with some set expressions, there is often an idiomatic translation and you may need to look up the other word to ~ place avoir lieu (h) (=accept) accepter, recevoir; to ~ credit cards accepter les cartes de crédit (i) meaning 'passively accept', it is common to translate with laisser or se faire and a verb to ~ a bribe se laisser corrompre, se laisser acheter; he took a beating il s'est fait tabasser (Infml) (j) (esp in negative: tolerate) response accepter; (more passively) pain, attitude, drink supporter, tolérer; I'll ~ the consequences j'accepterai les conséquences; he can't ~ his beer il ne supporte pas la bière; I can't ~ it any more! je n'en peux plus! (k) (=have capacity for) recevoir, admettre, accepter; the school ~s 500 students per year l'école admet (or) reçoit 500 étudiants par an (l) (=require) time prendre, translations can often be foud using falloir; it ~s a lot of time ça prend beaucoup de temps; it ~s courage il faut du courage, ça prend du courage; to ~ a long time to do sth mettre beaucoup de temps pour faire qch; it took over 3 hours il a fallu plus de 3 heures; I won't ~ long je n'en ai pas pour longtemps (m) (School) subject prendre, faire, étudier (comme matière); I'm taking French je prends (or) je fais (or) j'étudie le français; I'm taking French, maths, history and geography j'étudie le français, les maths, l'histoire et la géographie (frm); je prends (or) fais français, maths, histoire et géo (Infml); what are you taking this year? qu'est-ce que tu fais cette année comme matière? (n) (School) exam passer, se présenter à; I've just ~n my English exam je viens de passer mon examen d'anglais; I'm doing the course but I'm not going to ~ the exam je suis le cours mais je ne vais pas me présenter à l'examen; I'm taking my French exam tomorrow j'ai mon examen de français demain (o) (Commerce: take as income) faire (or) générer de recette; the shop ~s 1000 Euros per day le magasin fait 1000 euros de recette par jour; the company took over a million Euros in 2007 l'entreprise a fait (or) généré plus d'un million d'euros de recette en 2007 (p) a subject, an exam faire, passer, gouverner, mener, mettre, prendre, puiser, trouver (q) (Math, frm: take away) soustraire, ôter (from, de); what is ten ~ three? combien font dix moins trois? 2. take Verb, intransitive (a) (of fire) prendre (b) (Infml: of idea) marcher, se répandre (neutral), réussir (neutral)
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