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Forms: prépare, préparer. - I need to **prepare**. Je dois me **préparer**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#11053748](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11053748) [\#11107891](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11107891)) - The Thénardier had had time to **prepare** herself for the shock. La Thénardier avait eu le temps de se **préparer** au choc. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9023) - Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and **prepare** the Passover for us, that we may eat.” et Jésus envoya Pierre et Jean, en disant: Allez nous **préparer** la Pâque, afin que nous la mangions. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 22:8) - I therefore **prepare** my questions. Je **prépare** donc mes questions. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 335841) - Helps to **prepare** and activate tanning Contribue à **préparer** et à stimuler le bronzage ([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 3256337) ## établit Used about 9 352 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 858 · UN documents ≈ 8 495). - The Union industry **prepares** its books based on financial years. L'industrie de l'Union **établit** sa comptabilité sur la base d'exercices financiers. ([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 3934146) - The Board of Health **prepares** annual statistics in this field. Le Conseil **établit** des statistiques annuelles à ce sujet. ([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 13370580) - The manufacturer must **prepare** the technical documentation described in Section 3. Le fabricant **établit** la documentation technique décrite au point 3. ([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 1188728) - Drafter **prepares** the second draft and sends it to the chair: 4 April 2008 Le rédacteur **établit** le deuxième projet et l ' adresse au président le 4 avril 2008 ([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 21498554) - The Commission shall **prepare** annual work programmes on the basis of this Decision. La Commission **établit** des programmes de travail annuels sur la base de la présente décision. ([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 1422360) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - You should **prepare** for the future. Vous devriez vous apprêter pour le futur. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1454213](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1454213) [\#1462242](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1462242)) - We'll **prepare** a custom insurance policy for you. Nous vous préparerons un contrat d'assurance personnalisé. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by absvfx and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#9083396](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9083396) [\#4585205](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4585205)) - You didn't **prepare** me for this. Tu ne m'as pas préparée à ça. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#1895777](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1895777) [\#6630976](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6630976)) ## 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. 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