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Forms: prévenir, prévention. - The UN has played a major role in defusing international crises and **preventing** conflicts. L'ONU a joué un rôle majeur dans le désamorçage des crises internationales et la **prévention** des conflits. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#6042052](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6042052) [\#10148648](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10148648)) - in writing. I fully support the objectives of this report on **preventing** and fighting crime. Je soutiens pleinement les objectifs de ce rapport sur la **prévention** et la lutte contre la criminalité. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 899083) - Vaccination must be aimed at **preventing** the infection and subsequent spreading of virus between flocks. La vaccination doit servir à **prévenir** l'infection et la propagation subséquente du virus d'un troupeau à l'autre. ([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 811612) - **Preventing** crime and strengthening criminal justice systems **Prévention** de la criminalité et renforcement des systèmes de justice pénale ([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 19807265) - If we become better at discovering the causes of accidents, we also become better at **preventing** them. La **prévention** des accidents serait meilleure si nous connaissions mieux les causes des accidents. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 190978) ## empêcher Used about 11 074 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 342 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 539 · UN documents ≈ 9 186). Forms: empêchant, empêcher. - Politics is the art of **preventing** people from getting involved in what concerns them. La politique est l'art d'**empêcher** les gens de se mêler de ce qui les regarde. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dejo and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#2431203](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2431203) [\#6821125](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6821125)) - He had a passion for **preventing** the approach of the curious. Il avait la manie d'**empêcher** les curieux d'approcher. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 8865) - I am committed to the idea of providing a good education, as a way of **preventing** unemployment and social exclusion. Je soutiens l'idée d'une bonne éducation scolaire pour **empêcher** le chômage et l'exclusion sociale. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 139350) - by a structure **preventing** the fork-lift truck from overturning, or soit par une structure **empêchant** que le chariot-élévateur ne se renverse, ([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 1766286) - Seminar on **Preventing** the Spread of Weapons to Non-State Armed Groups Séminaire sur l ' action visant à **empêcher** les groupes armés non étatiques de se procurer des armes ([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 18162135) ## éviter Used about 1 445 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 399 · legal and administrative ≈ 128 · UN documents ≈ 919). - It is not about **preventing** globalisation, we would not succeed there in any case. Il ne s'agit pas d'**éviter** la mondialisation ; nous n'y parviendrions d'ailleurs pas. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 21787) - Specific conditions **preventing** double financing in such a case should be set out. Il convient de prévoir des conditions spécifiques pour **éviter** un double financement dans un tel cas. ([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 3065662) - 22. Work is being carried out at present under NSAU guidance on **preventing** fragmentation of the third stage of Tsyklon-3. 22. Des travaux sont en cours sous la direction de l ' ASNU afin d ' **éviter** la fragmentation du troisième étage du lanceur Tsyklon3. ([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 7753361) - In short, the consultations were in the end about **preventing** something worse rather than achieving something good. Pour faire court, les discussions tentaient en fin de compte d’**éviter** le pire et non d’introduire un mieux. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 551022) - 'Disruptors' are devices specially designed for the purpose of **preventing** the operation of an explosive device by projecting a liquid, solid or frangible projectile. Les 'disrupteurs' sont des dispositifs spécialement conçus pour **éviter** la détonation d'un engin explosif par la projection d'un projectile liquide, solide ou frangible. ([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 4090044) ## visant Used about 57 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 57). - Our intelligence service is constantly involved in **preventing** violent attacks against Danes and Danish social institutions, not from Danes but from foreigners. Nos services de renseignements déjouent sans cesse des attentats **visant** nos citoyens et nos institutions, fomentés par des étrangers. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1013820) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - The heat's **preventing** me from sleeping. La chaleur m'empêche de dormir. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and Blabla · checked, community translation · [\#4538761](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4538761) [\#3357313](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3357313)) - The bad weather's **preventing** me from leaving. Le mauvais temps m'empêche de partir. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#4538762](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4538762) [\#4540065](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4540065)) - By being so unwilling to compromise on this issue, the Council is **preventing** us from developing a strategic approach, which, incidentally, was present in the Commission' s initial proposal. Par son intransigeance en la matière, le Conseil entrave ainsi une perspective stratégique qui était du reste présente dans la proposition initiale de la Commission. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 217999) ## 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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