Usage examples of "prennent feu" in French with translation to English

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Les maisons japonaises sont faites en bois et prennent feu rapidement. Japanese houses are built of wood and they catch fire easily.
Les édifices en bois prennent facilement feu. Wooden buildings catch fire easily.
Le feu détruisit entièrement le bâtiment. The fire consumed the whole building.
Le monde est divisé en deux catégories, ceux qui accomplissent et ceux qui en prennent le crédit. The world is divided into people who get things done, and people who get the credit.
L'Homme est le seul animal à utiliser le feu. Man is the only fire-using animal.
C'est le matin. Les enfants prennent leur petit-déjeuner. It is morning. The children are eating breakfast.
Le feu est au vert. A green light is on.
Ils ne prennent pas conscience qu'ils sont utilisés comme des pions pour atteindre un objectif politique plus large. They don't realize that they're being used as pawns to obtain a wider political objective.
Le pompier démontra comment on éteint le feu. The fire fighter demonstrated how to put out the fire.
Il a pris sa retraite avant que les nouvelles modalités des pensions ne prennent effet. He retires before the new pension scheme is due to come into effect.
Un feu s'est déclaré la nuit dernière. A fire broke out last night.
Ils ne prennent pas soin de ce chien. They don't take care of that dog.
Tom tua Mary parce qu'il a découvert qu'elle était à l'origine du feu qui ravagea sa famille. Tom killed Mary because he found out she had started the fire that had killed his family.
Chokichi sentait vivement que les gens, à mesure qu'ils vieillissent, oublient entièrement les soucis que seuls les jeunes peuvent connaître et dont ils ont eux-mêmes fait l'expérience dans leur jeunesse ; et qu'ils prennent nonchalamment cette attitude facile où ils jugent durement les circonstances des jeunes de la nouvelle génération. Il sentait qu'il y avait réellement une distance irréconciliable entre les vieux et les jeunes. Chokichi keenly felt that people, as they get older, forget entirely about the worries that only young people know about and that they themselves experienced in their youth; and that they nonchalantly take this convenient disposition where they judge harshly the circumstances of the young persons born of the next generation. He felt that there was truly an irreconcilable gap between the old and the young.
Descendez le long de cette route jusqu'au feu rouge, puis tournez à gauche. Go down this road as far as the traffic light, and turn left.
Quand on aime comme on respire, ils prennent tous ça pour une maladie respiratoire. When you like the way you breathe, they will all take it to be a respiratory illness.
Les samedis soirs chaque membre de la famille prenait un bain, l'un après l'autre, dans une vielle baignoire en étain en face du feu. On Saturday evenings everybody in the family had a bath one after another in an old tin bath in front of the fire.
Les êtres humains, qu'ils en prennent conscience ou pas, recherchent continuellement le bonheur. Human beings, whether they realise it or not, continually seek happiness.
Le feu a réduit le village en cendres dans son intégralité. The fire reduced the whole village to ashes.
Les anges peuvent voler parce qu'ils se prennent à la légère. Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
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