prior — English to French

How English prior is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: prior in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: prior (109 338), priors (1). By style: everyday 15 · literary 2 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 2 083 · legal and administrative 19 110 · UN documents 88 128.

avant

Used about 45 728 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 042 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 963 · UN documents ≈ 36 720).

• This happened prior to receiving your letter.

  Ceci est survenu avant la réception de ta lettre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #17072 #481803

• I made my case to them prior to the elections.

  Je leur ai tout dit avant les élections.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 991314

• Flow meter [12]Prior to fishing

  Débitmètre [12]Avant la pêche

  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 3580321

• This paper will be made available on the UNFCCC web site prior to the session.

  Ce document sera publié sur le site Web de la FCCC avant la session.

  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 13991595

• This happened prior to receiving your letter.

  Ceci est survenu avant la réception de votre lettre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #17072 #481804

préalable

Used about 18 861 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 434 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 574 · UN documents ≈ 12 852).

• No prior experience is required.

  Aucune expérience préalable n'est requise.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #5364114 #7871642

• Prior court approval: that is what we wanted to obtain.

  par écrit. - Une autorisation judicaire préalable: voilà ce que nous voulions obtenir.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1304344

• Information without prior request

  Communication d’informations sans demande préalable

  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 1924453

• 5270 Prior surveillance for sensitive product categories

  Surveillance préalable pour les catégories de produits sensibles

  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 14343559

• in writing. - The key amendments on prior authorisation failed.

  par écrit. - (EN) Les principaux amendements concernant l'autorisation préalable ont été déclarés caducs.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1255886

More sentences

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

• I have a prior engagement.

  Je suis déjà pris.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2358786 #2565563

• I have a prior engagement.

  J'ai une obligation antérieure.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2358786 #2565565

• Do you think that the prior generations lived better?

  Pensez-vous que les générations précédentes vivaient mieux ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #11348569 #11348571

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