French dictionaries
Nouveau !reprendre
[rəprɑ̃dr]verbe transitif
| 1. | [saisir à nouveau - objet]
to pick up (separable)
again, to take again
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| 2. | [s'emparer à nouveau de - position, ville]
to retake, to recapture [ - prisonnier] to recapture, to catch again |
| 3. | [suj: maladie, doutes]
to take hold of again
quand la douleur me reprend when the pain comes back l'angoisse me reprit anxiety took hold of me again ça y est, ça le reprend! there he goes again! |
| 4. | [aller rechercher - personne]
to pick up (separable)
[ - objet] to get back (separable), to collect [remporter] to take back (separable) je (te) reprendrai mon écharpe demain I'll get my scarf back (from you) tomorrow ils reprennent aux uns ce qu'ils donnent aux autres they take away from some in order to give to others tu peux reprendre ton parapluie, je n'en ai plus besoin I don't need your umbrella anymore, you can take it back je te reprendrai à la sortie de l'école I'll pick you up ou I'll collect you ou I'll come and fetch you after school vous pouvez (passer) reprendre votre montre demain you can come (by) and collect ou pick up your watch tomorrow |
| 5. | [réengager - employé]
to take ou
to have back (separable)
[réadmettre - élève] to take ou to have back nous ne pouvons reprendre votre enfant en septembre we can't take ou have your child back in September |
| 7. | [à table]
reprends un biscuit have another biscuit reprends un comprimé dans deux heures take another tablet in two hours' time [chez un commerçant] to have ou to take more (of) |
| 8. | [recommencer, se remettre à - recherche, combat]
to resume [ - projet] to take up again [ - enquête] to restart, to reopen [ - lecture] to go back to, to resume [ - hostilités] to resume, to reopen [ - discussion, voyage] to resume, to carry on (with), to continue reprendre ses études to take up one's studies again, to resume one's studies je reprends l'école le 15 septembre I start school again ou I go back to school on September 15th reprendre le travail a. [après des vacances] to go back to work, to start work again b. [après une pause] to get back to work, to start work again c. [après une grève] to go back to work reprendre contact avec quelqu'un to get in touch with somebody again reprendre la plume/la caméra/le pinceau to take up one's pen/movie camera/brush once more reprendre la route ou son chemin to set off again, to resume one's journey elle a repris le volant après quelques heures she took the wheel again after a few hours reprendre la mer a. [marin] to go back to sea b. [navire] to (set) sail again reprendre une instance droit to resume a hearing |
| 9. | [répéter - texte]
to read again [ - argument, passage musical] to repeat [ - refrain] to take up (separable) on reprend tout depuis le ou au début [on recommence] let's start (all over) again from the beginning un sujet repris par tous vos hebdomadaires an issue taken up by all your weeklies télévision to repeat cinéma to rerun théâtre to revive, to put on again, to put back on the stage quand j'ai repris le rôle de Tosca a. [que j'avais déjà chanté] when I took on the part of Tosca again b. [que je n'avais jamais chanté] when I took on ou over the part of Tosca [récapituler - faits] to go over (inseparable) again |
| 10. | [dire]
to go ou
to carry on
"et lui?", reprit-elle "what about him?" she went on |
| 11. | commerce
[article refusé]
to take back (separable)
les vêtements ne sont ni repris ni échangés clothes cannot be returned or exchanged nous vous reprenons votre vieux salon pour tout achat de plus de 2000 euros your old lounge suite accepted in part exchange for any purchase over 2,000 euros ils m'ont repris ma voiture pour 1000 euros I traded my car in for 1,000 euros [prendre à son compte - cabinet, boutique] to take over (separable) |
| 12. | [adopter - idée, programme politique] to take up (separable) |
| 13. | [modifier - texte]
to rework, to go over (inseparable)
again [ - peinture] to touch up (separable) il a fallu tout reprendre it all had to be gone over ou done again c'était parfait, je n'ai rien eu à reprendre it was perfect, I didn't have to make a single correction ou alteration couture [généralement] to alter [rétrécir] to take in [en tricot] reprendre une maille to pick up a stitch construction to repair reprendre un mur en sous-œuvre to underpin a wall mécanique [pièce] to rework, to machine |
| 14. | [réprimander]
to pull up, to reprimand (soutenu),
to tell off (separable)
[corriger] to correct, to pull up (separable) j'ai été obligée de la reprendre en public I had to put her straight in front of everybody |
| 15. | [surprendre]
que je ne t'y reprenne plus! don't let me catch you at it again! on ne m'y reprendra plus! that's the last time you'll catch me doing that! |
| 16. | sport to return |
reprendre
[rəprɑ̃dr]verbe intransitif
| 1. | [s'améliorer - affaires]
to improve, to recover, to pick ou
to look up
[repousser - plante] to pick up, to recover |
| 2. | [recommencer - lutte]
to start (up) again, to resume [ - pluie, vacarme] to start (up) again [ - cours, école] to start again, to resume [ - feu] to rekindle [ - fièvre, douleur] to return, to start again je n'arrive pas à faire reprendre le feu I can't get the fire going again la tempête reprit de plus belle the storm started again with renewed ferocity le froid a repris the cold weather has set in again ou has returned |
| 3. | [retourner au travail - employé] to start again |
se reprendre
verbe pronominal intransitif
| 1. | [recouvrer ses esprits]
to get a grip on oneself, to pull oneself together
[retrouver son calme] to settle down ils ne nous laissent pas le temps de nous reprendre entre deux questions they don't give us time to take a breather between questions |
| 2. | sport
[au cours d'un match]
to make a recovery, to rally
après un mauvais début de saison, il s'est très bien repris he started the season badly but has come back strongly ou has staged a good comeback |
| 3. | [se ressaisir - après une erreur]
to correct oneself
se reprendre à temps [avant une bévue] to stop oneself in time |
se reprendre à
verbe pronominal plus préposition
elle se reprit à divaguer she started rambling again
je me repris à l'aimer I started to fall in love with her again
| s'y reprendre [recommencer] : je m'y suis reprise à trois fois I had to start again three times ou to make three attempts |