make a decision or take a decision

Question

How do you say "tomar una decisión"?. Take a decision or make a decision? I would like to know your opinions about that.

Answer 1

One makes a decision. Yo hice el decision. No one takes a decision. That is one area that native speakers have no difficulty at all....

Answer 2

Taking a decision would seem to imply that the decision belonged to someone else, but you have made it for them... that you have removed their decision (to take implies a transfer of possession)... but the decision would still be made, as in formed, by a process of thinking (one would hope!) through the options, working out what you want / what is best etc, putting all this together, and voila, a decision results.

Just like you might make a cake from its ingredients, you make a decision from the options.