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Forms: préparation, prépare, préparer. - I'm **preparing** the lunch. Je **prépare** le déjeuner. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and glossboss · checked, community translation · [\#7427689](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7427689) [\#13016888](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13016888)) - “Of forged iron,” replied Passepartout, as he set about **preparing** a hasty breakfast. --De fer forgé», répondit Passepartout, qui s'occupa de **préparer** un déjeuner sommaire. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 751) - We are all busy **preparing** for important votes. Nous sommes tous forts occupés à **préparer** des votes importants. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1940144) - **Preparing** audit conclusions; and **préparation** des conclusions de l’audit, et ([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 2780949) - III. **PREPARING** FOR THE REVIEW OF THE PROTOCOL ON PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS III. **PRÉPARATION** DE L ' EXAMEN DU PROTOCOLE SUR ([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 12070946) ## élaboration Used about 7 310 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 228 · legal and administrative ≈ 205 · UN documents ≈ 6 877). - The Commission will be fully involved in **preparing** such measures. La Commission participera pleinement à l’**élaboration** de ces mesures. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 794489) - **preparing** and implementing the decisions and programmes adopted by the Management Board, l'**élaboration** et la mise en œuvre des décisions et des programmes adoptés par le conseil d'administration, ([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 1089002) - 1. Please provide more information on the process of **preparing** the report. Généralités Veuillez donner plus de précisions concernant le processus d ' **élaboration** du rapport. ([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 16934478) - It is now **preparing** a new adoption law which will reportedly soon be put before the national parliament. Il semble qu'une nouvelle loi régissant les procédures d'adoption soit en phase d'**élaboration**, et sur le point d'être examinée par le Parlement. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 314626) - When **preparing** TSIs, therefore, the Agency should consult social partners, where appropriate. Par conséquent, lors de l'**élaboration** des STI, l'Agence devrait consulter les partenaires sociaux, le cas échéant. ([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 3897303) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - They are **preparing** for their trip. Ils se préparent pour leur voyage. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by adjusting and adjusting · checked, community translation · [\#307670](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/307670) [\#485500](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/485500)) - I went to bed after **preparing** everything in advance. Je suis allé me coucher après avoir tout préparé à l'avance. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and minti · checked, community translation · [\#253024](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/253024) [\#136275](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/136275)) - He was **preparing** something to eat. Il faisait à manger. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and lovasoa · checked, community translation · [\#12015052](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12015052) [\#4737957](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4737957)) ## 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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