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# preventive — English to French

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

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: preventive (43 472). By style: everyday 1 · parliamentary 1 376 · legal and administrative 1 972 · UN documents 40 123.

## préventives

Used about 33 900 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 204 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 767 · UN documents ≈ 30 928). Forms: préventif, prévention, préventive, préventives.

- **Preventive** measures are much more effective than the actual treatment.
  Les mesures **préventives** sont beaucoup plus efficaces que le traitement lui-même.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sysko · checked, community translation · [\#324720](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/324720) [\#334874](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/334874))

- Why was there a **preventive** approach?
  Pourquoi y a-t-il eu une approche **préventive** ?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 366406)

- Corrective and **preventive** actions
  Mesures correctives et **préventives**
  ([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 611200)

- **Preventive** efforts needed to be redoubled.
  Il faut redoubler les efforts de **prévention**.
  ([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 7005309)

- **Preventive** measures must be paramount.
  Les mesures **préventives** doivent être mises en avant.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 303377)

## More sentences

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

- Far too little, though – as the rapporteur has pointed out – is being invested in the **preventive** care that stops people becoming ill in the first place.
  Mais, comme le rapporteur l’a signalé, on investit beaucoup trop peu dans les soins préventifs, qui empêchent les maladies de survenir.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 669041)

- There is a need to increase accountability and the powers for monitoring the internal models and imposing **preventive** measures.
  Il est nécessaire de renforcer la responsabilité et les pouvoirs en vue du contrôle des modèles internes et pour imposer des mesures prudentielles.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1565616)

- Otherwise, the general **preventive** use of these products, which are also antibiotics, could conceal possible hygiene problems on the farms.
  Sinon, l'usage prophylactique généralisé de ces produits, qui sont aussi des antibiotiques, pourrait masquer des problèmes sanitaires existant éventuellement dans ces entreprises.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 391051)

## Grammar

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