Bury ready for French to take (9)
I believe the answer is:
interpret
'take' is the definition.
(I know this)
'bury ready for french' is the wordplay.
'bury' becomes 'inter' (to inter is to put into the ground).
'ready for french' becomes 'pret'' ('ready' in French).
'inter'+'pret'='INTERPRET'
'to' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for interpret that I've seen before include "Assign one's own meaning to" , "Translate, decode" , "Gloss needed" , "Read" , "Translate or take one's own meaning from" .)