prevent — English to French

How English prevent is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

What it means: prevent in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: prevent (157 464), prevents (5 892). By style: everyday 101 · literary 21 · parliamentary 10 539 · legal and administrative 13 807 · UN documents 138 888.

empêcher

Used about 71 980 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 63 · literary ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 3 952 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 191 · UN documents ≈ 60 764). Forms: empêche, empêcher.

• Who can prevent it?

  Qui peut l'empêcher ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by _undertoad and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2270201 #3245349

• “Which does not prevent him from defending it,” responded Enjolras.

  --Ce qui ne l'empêche pas de la défendre, répondit Enjolras.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26599

• How are we to prevent this?

  Comment pouvons-nous empêcher cela ?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 370631

• the type of device to prevent unauthorised use.

  type du dispositif destiné à empêcher une utilisation non autorisée;

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 5500858

• Article 2 - All measures to prevent acts of torture

  Article 2 (Mesures visant à empêcher la commission d ' actes de torture)

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 13364559

prévenir

Used about 34 302 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 14 · parliamentary ≈ 878 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 582 · UN documents ≈ 31 829).

• Who can prevent it?

  Qui peut le prévenir ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by _undertoad and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2270201 #3245347

• It has allowed us to investigate and prevent attacks.

  Il nous a permis d'enquêter et de prévenir des attentats.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1341392

• MEASURES TO PREVENT TERRORIST OFFENCES

  MESURES VISANT À PRÉVENIR LES INFRACTIONS TERRORISTES

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 1387558

• (d) Take different measures to prevent domestic violence;

  De prendre les diverses mesures permettant de prévenir la violence familiale;

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 20617164

• Dates help to prevent cancer.

  Les dattes aident à prévenir le cancer.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · #9360361 #12141234

éviter

Used about 9 433 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 2 196 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 438 · UN documents ≈ 5 787).

• That's exactly what we're trying to prevent.

  C'est exactement ce qu'on essaye d'éviter.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #11734106 #12733034

• This legislation could prevent that kind of situation arising.

  Avec cette législation, on pourrait éviter ce genre de situation.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 245457

• Requirements to prevent vehicles from degradation for snow, ice and hail conditions.

  Exigences pour éviter une détérioration des véhicules par temps de neige, de glace et de grêle.

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3543055

• This then prevents such pleas from being used as a delaying tactics.

  Cette procédure permet d ' éviter le recours à ces exceptions comme manœuvres dilatoires.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 7532790

• Brushing your teeth helps prevent tooth decay.

  Le brossage dentaire aide à éviter les caries.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #10612587 #10553540

toute

Used about 1 083 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 220 · legal and administrative ≈ 863).

• We must guarantee the principle of free transplants and prevent any pressure from being put on potential donors.

  Le principe de gratuité doit être garanti et toute pression sur un donneur potentiel doit être écartée.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1388447

• This prevents aid-financed inorganic growth of LBBW.

  Ceci fait obstacle à toute croissance anorganique de LBBW financée par l’aide octroyée.

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2003846

• The Union is pleased with this statement and hopes that the Russian authorities will fulfil their commitment and prevent any further violation of human rights.

  L'Union accueille avec plaisir cette déclaration et espère que les autorités russes respecteront leur engagement et éviteront toute nouvelle violation des droits de l'homme.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 303516

• prevent either Party from taking any action for the purpose of maintaining international peace and security.

  comme empêchant l'une ou l'autre partie d'entreprendre toute action pour le maintien de la paix et de la sécurité internationales.

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 317783

• The use of Roman numerals as approval numbers should be avoided so as to prevent any confusion with other symbols.

  L'utilisation de chiffres romains pour les numéros d'homologation doit être évitée, afin d'exclure toute confusion avec d'autres symboles.

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 5518173

More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

• Being blind did not prevent him from obtaining a doctorate in mathematics.

  Être aveugle ne l'a pas empêché d'obtenir un doctorat en mathématiques.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #10714954 #11060061

• Seize this brigand! Prevent him from escaping!

  Emparez-vous de ce brigand ! Empêchez qu'il ne s'échappe !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · #1931641 #1931578

• Vaccinations help prevent childhood diseases.

  Les vaccinations aident à protéger contre les maladies infantiles.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source_VOA and bart · checked, community translation · #681788 #1177977

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