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# avoid — English to French

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

What it means: [avoid in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/avoid/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: avoid (65 029), avoids (1 330). By style: everyday 192 · literary 5 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 6 534 · legal and administrative 9 697 · UN documents 49 927.

## évite

Used about 49 030 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 159 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 4 901 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 081 · UN documents ≈ 35 885). Forms: évite, éviter.

- **Avoid** it at all cost.
  **Évite**-la à tout prix.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2890971](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2890971) [\#6461234](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6461234))

- And he scarcely ever spoke to them, excepting when Roland was by, to **avoid** his questioning.
  Il ne leur parlait presque plus d'ailleurs, sauf devant Roland, afin d'**éviter** ses questions.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2297)

- **Avoid** it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
  **Évite**-la, n’y passe point; Détourne-t’en, et passe outre.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 4:15)

- It is a role we have tried to **avoid**.
  Nous avons essayé de l'**éviter**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 305078)

- **avoids** conflicts of interest;
  **évite** les conflits d'intérêts;
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 167006)

## tout

Used about 2 523 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 136 · legal and administrative ≈ 303 · UN documents ≈ 2 080). Forms: tout, toute.

- **Avoid** it at all cost.
  Évitez-la à **tout** prix.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2890971](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2890971) [\#6461236](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6461236))

- They cleverly **avoid** breaking the laws of the host country and so can continue their ghastly activities with impunity.
  Ils évitent soigneusement d'enfreindre les lois du pays qui les accueille et peuvent ainsi poursuivre leurs mortelles activités en **toute** impunité.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 56573)

- That amount must be fixed at a level that **avoids** any risk of unwarranted payment to olive growers.
  Ce montant doit être fixé à un niveau tel que **tout** risque de paiement indu aux oléiculteurs soit évité.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 737234)

- 80. Absolute clarity is essential so as to **avoid** unacceptable permissiveness.
  80. Néanmoins il faut aussi que **tout** soit absolument clair pour ne pas tomber dans d &apos; autres travers tout aussi inacceptables.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 9269628)

- But we cannot **avoid** condemning its minimalist aspect, despite all the goodwill of the rapporteur, whom we sincerely thank for her work.
  Mais on ne peut s'empêcher de déplorer son aspect minimaliste, malgré **toute** la bonne volonté de notre rapporteur que l'on remercie ici sincèrement pour son travail.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 443376)

## manière

Used about 621 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 101 · UN documents ≈ 520).

- This will **avoid** increasing the compliance costs of the operators in the industry.
  De cette **manière**, les coûts de mise en conformité pesant sur les opérateurs du secteur ne seront pas augmentés.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 3351722)

- She had not resolved the issue in her draft, but she believed that the Committee should by no means **avoid** it.
  Dans son projet, Mme Higgins n &apos; a pas réglé la question, mais elle pense que le Comité ne doit en aucune **manière** l &apos; éluder.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 3703899)

## permet

Used about 202 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 202).

- Immediate analysis also **avoids** delay in determining when a plateau has been reached.
  Une analyse immédiate **permet** également de déterminer sans retard l'atteinte du plateau.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 3941976)

- The use of zinc oxide in the form of a stable suspension in water **avoids** this hazard.
  L’utilisation de l’oxyde de zinc sous la forme d’une suspension stable dans l’eau **permet** d’écarter ce danger.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 2342030)

## More sentences

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

- We won't be able to **avoid** being punished this time.
  Nous ne pourrons pas échapper à la sanction cette fois-ci.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#1224523](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1224523) [\#8438874](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8438874))

- **Avoid** this topic in his presence.
  Évitez d'aborder ce sujet en sa présence.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Cocorico · checked, community translation · [\#10502009](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10502009) [\#1983701](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1983701))

- I couldn't **avoid** him.
  Je n'ai pas pu l'esquiver.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#11935788](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11935788) [\#9502320](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9502320))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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