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Forms: préparatifs, préparation, préparations. - The key is **preparation**. La clé, c'est la **préparation**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AmarMecheri and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#7676933](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7676933) [\#8349578](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8349578)) - Marius, who had always present to his mind the inflexible grandfather of his early years, interpreted this silence as a profound concentration of wrath, augured from it a hot conflict, and augmented his **preparations** for the fray in the inmost recesses of his mind. Marius, qui avait toujours présent à l'esprit l'inflexible grand-père de ses premières années, vit dans ce silence une profonde concentration de colère, en augura une lutte acharnée, et augmenta dans les arrière-recoins de sa pensée ses **préparatifs** de combat. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28917) - It was the day of the **Preparation**, and the Sabbath was drawing near. C’était le jour de la **préparation**, et le sabbat allait commencer. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 23:54) - **Preparations** for enlargement are going slowly. Les **préparatifs** avancent lentement. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 98110) - Light oils and **preparations** Huiles légères et **préparations** ([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 1904248) ## conférence Used about 1 523 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 43 · UN documents ≈ 1 481). - Mr President, I would like to begin by congratulating Mr Lüttge for his excellent report, initiating formal **preparations** for the Third Pan-European Transport Conference. Monsieur le Président, je voudrais commencer en félicitant Herr Lüttge pour son excellent rapport, qui prépare de manière officielle le lancement de la troisième **conférence** paneuropéenne des transports. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1659436) - - 2004 A Femmes solidaires delegation took part in the European **preparations** in Geneva on 12, 13 and 14 December for the Beijing +10 conference that was held from 28 February to 11 March 2005. - 12-14 décembre 2004 : Présence d ' une délégation de Femmes solidaires à une réunion préparatoire européenne (Genève) à la **Conférence** < < Beijing+10 > > (28 février-11 mars 2005). ([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 19004360) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - We are studying hard in **preparation** for the exams. Nous étudions beaucoup pour nous préparer aux examens. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#263056](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/263056) [\#8444121](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8444121)) - and having fitted your feet with the **preparation** of the Good News of peace, mettez pour chaussure à vos pieds le zèle que donne l’Évangile de paix; ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EPH 6:15) - “Say to the people, ‘Sanctify yourselves in **preparation** for tomorrow, and you will eat meat; for you have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying, “Who will give us meat to eat? For it was well with us in Egypt.” Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat. Tu diras au peuple: Sanctifiez-vous pour demain, et vous mangerez de la viande, puisque vous avez pleuré aux oreilles de l’Éternel, en disant: Qui nous fera manger de la viande? Car nous étions bien en Égypte. L’Éternel vous donnera de la viande, et vous en mangerez. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 11:18) ## 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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