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Ceci est survenu **avant** la réception de ta lettre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#17072](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/17072) [\#481803](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/481803)) - I made my case to them **prior** to the elections. Je leur ai tout dit **avant** les élections. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 991314) - Flow meter \[12\]**Prior** to fishing Débitmètre \[12\]**Avant** la pêche ([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 3580321) - This paper will be made available on the UNFCCC web site **prior** to the session. Ce document sera publié sur le site Web de la FCCC **avant** la session. ([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 13991595) - This happened **prior** to receiving your letter. Ceci est survenu **avant** la réception de votre lettre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#17072](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/17072) [\#481804](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/481804)) ## préalable Used about 18 861 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 434 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 574 · UN documents ≈ 12 852). - No **prior** experience is required. Aucune expérience **préalable** n'est requise. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#5364114](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5364114) [\#7871642](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7871642)) - **Prior** court approval: that is what we wanted to obtain. par écrit. - Une autorisation judicaire **préalable**: voilà ce que nous voulions obtenir. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1304344) - Information without **prior** request Communication d’informations sans demande **préalable** ([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 1924453) - 5270 **Prior** surveillance for sensitive product categories Surveillance **préalable** pour les catégories de produits sensibles ([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 14343559) - in writing. - The key amendments on **prior** authorisation failed. par écrit. - (EN) Les principaux amendements concernant l'autorisation **préalable** ont été déclarés caducs. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1255886) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I have a **prior** engagement. Je suis déjà pris. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2358786](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2358786) [\#2565563](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2565563)) - I have a **prior** engagement. J'ai une obligation antérieure. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2358786](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2358786) [\#2565565](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2565565)) - Do you think that the **prior** generations lived better? Pensez-vous que les générations précédentes vivaient mieux ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11348569](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11348569) [\#11348571](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11348571)) ## 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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