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Forms: préparatoire, préparatoires. - CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN **PREPARATORY** MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER Qu'il fallait que la chaîne de la manille eut subit un certain travail **préparatoire** pour être ainsi brisée d'un coup de marteau ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7891) - I will speak rather about the **preparatory** work. Je parlerai plutôt du travail **préparatoire**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1187114) - **Preparatory** and follow-up measures Actions **préparatoires** et de suivi ([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 4130478) - IV. Action by the **Preparatory** Committee IV. Mesures prises par le Comité **préparatoire** ([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 23872760) - The Commission's **preparatory** work is moving forward. Les travaux **préparatoires** de la Commission avancent. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1708556) ## session Used about 1 414 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 414). - The resumed first session of the **Preparatory** Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization will be held from 3 to 11 March1997 in Geneva. The resumed first **session** of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization will be held from 3 to 11 March1997 in Geneva. ([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 4181030) ## préparation Used about 406 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 116 · legal and administrative ≈ 290). - The rapporteur has made progress in the **preparatory** work before enlargement in 2004. Le rapporteur a progressé dans le travail de **préparation** en vue de l'élargissement de 2004. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 248011) - This cooperation shall be effective during the **preparatory**, monitoring and reporting phases. Cette coopération est effective pendant les phases de **préparation**, de contrôle et d'élaboration de rapports. ([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 3969173) - Such a clause was already used during the **preparatory** stages of the Treaty of Amsterdam. Nous avons déjà vu une clause de ce type lors de la **préparation** du traité d'Amsterdam. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 370381) - Printing or dyeing of unbleached or prebleached felt, accompanied by **preparatory** or finishing operations impression ou teinture de feutres écrus ou préblanchis, accompagnée d’opérations de **préparation** ou de finition ([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 3752650) - The **Preparatory** Committee for the World Summit on the Information Society is sitting in Geneva. Le comité de **préparation** du Sommet mondial sur la société de l'information siège actuellement à Genève. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 492646) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - While a battle that was still wholly political was in preparation in the same locality which had already witnessed so many revolutionary events, while youth, the secret associations, the schools, in the name of principles, and the middle classes, in the name of interests, were approaching **preparatory** to dashing themselves together, clasping and throwing each other, while each one hastened and invited the last and decisive hour of the crisis, far away and quite outside of this fatal quarter, in the most profound depths of the unfathomable cavities of that wretched old Paris which disappears under the splendor of happy and opulent Paris, the sombre voice of the people could be heard giving utterance to a dull roar. Tandis qu'une bataille encore toute politique se préparait dans ce même emplacement qui avait vu déjà tant d'événements révolutionnaires, tandis que la jeunesse, les associations secrètes, les écoles, au nom des principes, et la classe moyenne, au nom des intérêts, s'approchaient pour se heurter, s'étreindre et se terrasser, tandis que chacun hâtait et appelait l'heure dernière et décisive de la crise, au loin et en dehors de ce quartier fatal, au plus profond des cavités insondables de ce vieux Paris misérable qui disparaît sous la splendeur du Paris heureux et opulent, on entendait gronder sourdement la sombre voix du peuple. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24363) - I would therefore ask the Commissioner and the officials responsible for this to start work on the **preparatory** process now. C'est la raison pour laquelle je demande au commissaire et aux services compétents d'entamer dès à présent les préparatifs. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1993247) - Finally, I should like to state that I support the **preparatory** work to conclude a stability and partnership agreement between the Union and Albania. Enfin, je voudrais déclarer mon soutient aux travaux préliminaires pour la signature d' un accord de stabilité et de partenariat entre l' Union et l' Albanie. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 112530) ## 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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