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Forms: préliminaire, préliminaires. - A **preliminary** hearing is scheduled for October 20th. Une audience **préliminaire** est prévue pour le 20 octobre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4499274](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4499274) [\#5814336](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5814336)) - In 132 cases a **preliminary** inquiry has been initiated. Une enquête **préliminaire** a été ouverte pour 132 cas. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1609859) - **Preliminary** test of automatic locking system Essai **préliminaire** du système de verrouillage automatique ([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 4634676) - Item 122 of the **preliminary** list\* Point 122 de la liste **préliminaire**\* ([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 18226919) - Before we begin, a number of **preliminary** remarks are in order. Avant que nous commencions, un certain nombre de remarques **préliminaires** sont nécessaires. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1528625](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1528625) [\#1528641](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1528641)) ## préalables Used about 1 971 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 89 · legal and administrative ≈ 674 · UN documents ≈ 1 207). - It is a matter of urgency to deal with the **preliminaries**. Il y a urgence à traiter les **préalables**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1668214) - See **preliminary** remarks in heading 5 (data relating to products). Voir les remarques **préalables** sous le titre 5 (données relatives aux produits). ([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 1897084) - 33. The Moroccan delegation deplored the fact that for over a year the Israeli Government had been primarily resorting to manoeuvres and **preliminaries** backed by threats and ultimatums in order to evade its international obligations. 33. La délégation marocaine déplore que, depuis plus d ' un an, le Gouvernement israélien privilégie les manoeuvres et les **préalables** assortis de menaces et d ' ultimatums pour se soustraire à ses obligations internationales. ([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 5190016) - At this stage, however, a strictly budgetary approach will mean that we are neglecting certain essential **preliminaries**. Pourtant, à ce stade, une approche strictement budgétaire conduit à négliger les **préalables**. Ils sont pourtant essentiels. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1668201) - undertake the **preliminary** steps for the implementation of appropriations. à l’ordonnancement des paiements, ainsi qu’aux actes **préalables** à la consommation des crédits. ([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 5348145) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - “And fifteen francs in addition for **preliminary** expenses,” added the man’s voice. --Et quinze francs en dehors pour les premiers frais, ajouta la voix d'homme. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3404) - Even now, in your **preliminary** draft budget, as adopted by the Bureau, there is reference to EUR 90 million in unused funds. Aujourd’hui déjà, dans votre avant-projet de budget, adopté par le Bureau, il est fait référence à 90 millions d’euros de fonds inutilisés. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 677392) - We are therefore also in favour of a change in the **preliminary** ruling procedure, which can now only produce results if the Member States expressly submit themselves to it. C'est pourquoi nous sommes aussi pour une modification du recours préjudiciel, qui n'est utilisée pour le moment que si les États membres s'y soumettent expressément. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1821721) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. Every example names its source and licence. 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