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Forms: préparatifs, préparation, préparations. - **Preparations** are in full swing. Les **préparatifs** battent leur plein. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by viorel and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#6061745](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6061745) [\#10727094](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10727094)) - 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) - **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) - D. **Preparations** at the regional level D. **Préparatifs** au niveau régional ([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 21920484) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - He will show you a large, furnished upper room. Make **preparations** there.” Et il vous montrera une grande chambre haute, meublée: c’est là que vous préparerez la Pâque. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 22:12) - Each young woman’s turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after her purification for twelve months (for so were the days of their purification accomplished, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet fragrances and with **preparations** for beautifying women). Chaque jeune fille allait à son tour vers le roi Assuérus, après avoir employé douze mois à s’acquitter de ce qui était prescrit aux femmes; pendant ce temps, elles prenaient soin de leur toilette, six mois avec de l’huile de myrrhe, et six mois avec des aromates et des parfums en usage parmi les femmes. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EST 2:12) - A spark would now develop the whole of our **preparations** into activity. Une étincelle suffisait maintenant pour mettre ce formidable engin en activité. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3651) ## 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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