empêcher — French to English

How French empêcher is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: empêchaient (1 158), empêchait (1 607), empêche (15 664), empêchent (11 654), empêcher (67 711), empêches (1), empêchez (29), empêchons (61), empêché (9 412), empêchée (1 167), empêchées (651), empêchés (1 937). By style: everyday 338 · literary 37 · biblical 42 · parliamentary 8 954 · legal and administrative 8 995 · UN documents 92 686.

prevent

Used about 53 314 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 110 · literary ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 4 666 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 694 · UN documents ≈ 42 826). Forms: prevent, prevented, preventing. Meaning: prevent in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je fus incapable d'empêcher ceci.

  I was unable to prevent this.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #2543177 #6380839

• --Empêchons toujours le second coup, dit Enjolras.

  “Let us prevent the second discharge,” said Enjolras.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26025

• Nous l'avons empêchée.

  We have prevented it from doing so.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1010328

• Dispositions spécifiques pour empêcher tout flux de gaz

  Specific provisions to prevent any gas flow

  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 5562549

• Empêchez l ' exploitation sexuelle des enfants.

  Prevent sexual exploitation of children.

  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 13423934

More sentences

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

• Personne ne peut nous empêcher de faire ça.

  Nobody can stop us from doing that.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #5909887 #7141561

• Je ne peux pas t'empêcher de révéler mes secrets. Cependant, je te demande de ne pas les faire.

  I can't stop you from revealing my secrets. However, I beg you not to.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Despear and CK · checked, community translation · #1954940 #2114939

• Je ne peux simplement pas m'empêcher de me faire du souci à votre sujet.

  I just can't help worrying about you.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #2362112 #2370499

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