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# prescribed — English to French

How English *prescribed* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: [prescribed in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prescribed/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: prescribed (31 120). By style: everyday 21 · literary 1 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 351 · legal and administrative 5 686 · UN documents 25 060.

## prescrit

Used about 14 120 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 21 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 124 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 488 · UN documents ≈ 11 486). Forms: prescrit, prescrite, prescrites, prescrits.

- The doctor **prescribed** her medicine.
  Le médecin lui a **prescrit** des médicaments.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Xavier · checked, community translation · [\#1229114](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1229114) [\#553608](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/553608))

- Who has **prescribed** his way for him? Or who can say, ‘You have committed unrighteousness’?
  Qui lui **prescrit** ses voies? Qui ose dire: Tu fais mal?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 36:23)

- It is therefore important to respect **prescribed** principles and standards.
  Par conséquent, il est important de respecter les normes et principes **prescrits**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1201378)

- is at a **prescribed** point or level;
  il est à un point ou à un niveau **prescrit**;
  ([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 5180499)

- No departure shall be permitted without the **prescribed** minimum crew.
  Un départ sans l &apos; équipage **prescrit** n &apos; est pas autorisé.
  ([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 6743951)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- If one chanced to be within certain **prescribed** and very rare conditions, the slat of one of the shutters opened opposite you; the evoked spirit became an apparition.
  Si l'on était dans de certaines conditions voulues, bien rares, l'étroite lame d'un des volets s'ouvrait en face de vous, et l'évocation devenait une apparition.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10339)

- Strict standards can be **prescribed** for new plants since the new technology can be used here.
  Pour les nouvelles installations, des normes plus sévères peuvent être imposées, étant donné que, dans ce cas, de nouvelles techniques peuvent être utilisées.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 169330)

- Secondly, the budget has not yet reached the **prescribed** ceiling. I hope that the Council will make up the difference, if not, Parliament will be submitting proposals.
  Deuxièmement, il reste inférieur au plafond convenu, et j'espère que le Conseil va remédier au problème, sans quoi le Parlement présentera ses propositions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 70397)

## 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/).

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