prévenir — French to English

How French prévenir is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations 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: prévenir (100 196). By style: everyday 80 · literary 4 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 2 757 · legal and administrative 5 763 · UN documents 91 591.

prevention

Used about 83 279 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 20 · parliamentary ≈ 2 010 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 923 · UN documents ≈ 76 326). Forms: prevent, preventing, prevention. Meaning: prevention in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Qui peut le prévenir ?

  Who can prevent it?

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

• On connaît le vieil adage qui dit mieux vaut prévenir que guérir.

  As we know, there is an old saying, prevention is better than cure.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 82078

• Mesures destinées à prévenir les défauts de règlement

  Measures to prevent settlement fails

  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 4673861

• Il vaut mieux prévenir que guérir.

  She felt very strongly that prevention was better than cure.

  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 16979071

• Prévenir vaut mieux que guérir.

  Prevention is better than cure.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Eldad · checked, community translation · #264381 #6742083

measures

Used about 2 201 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 172 · legal and administrative ≈ 120 · UN documents ≈ 1 908).

• Il faut prévenir, adopter des mesures préventives afin d' éviter que ce type de catastrophe ne se reproduise.

  We must adopt preventative measures which can stop disasters like this from happening in the future.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 19881

• prennent les mesures de précaution nécessaires pour prévenir tout risque de contamination par des substances ou produits non autorisés;

  take precautionary measures to avoid the risk of contamination by unauthorised substances or products;

  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 4078223

• L ' État partie devrait en outre prendre toutes les mesures possibles pour prévenir les décès d ' adolescentes causés par un avortement.

  Furthermore, the State party should take all possible measures to address the issue of the deaths of teenage girls as a result of abortions.

  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 15211575

• Désormais, les États membres se voient contraints de prendre des mesures d'urgence appropriées en vue de pouvoir prévenir les graves dangers relatifs aux aliments pour animaux.

  Member States will now be obliged to introduce appropriate emergency measures to deal with serious risks involving feed.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 189327

• Nous estimons qu'il doit être révisé ou, à tout le moins, qu'il est nécessaire de prévoir des mesures d'aide afin de prévenir les problèmes des PME.

  We would argue that it needs to be revised or, at the least, that there needs to be provision for aid measures to guard against the problems of SMEs.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1387524

More sentences

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

• Je voulais juste te prévenir.

  I just wanted to warn you.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #2374126 #11151733

• J'ai essayé de te prévenir.

  I've tried to warn you.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #2360658 #2025298

• Veuillez me prévenir quand vous n'arriverez plus à entendre cela.

  Please tell me when you cannot hear this anymore.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and NurseMeeks · checked, community translation · #9853889 #9934866

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