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# ready — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: readies (5), ready (29 476). By style: everyday 1 135 · literary 35 · biblical 64 · parliamentary 3 761 · legal and administrative 2 139 · UN documents 22 347.

## prêt

Used about 15 518 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 017 · literary ≈ 21 · biblical ≈ 31 · parliamentary ≈ 2 917 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 649 · UN documents ≈ 9 884). Forms: prêt, prête, prêtes, prêts.

- I'm almost **ready**.
  Je suis presque **prêt**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and qdii · checked, community translation · [\#2247910](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2247910) [\#640044](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/640044))

- “All **ready** to go out.”
  --Toute **prête** à sortir.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16999)

- They will give account to him who is **ready** to judge the living and the dead.
  Ils rendront compte à celui qui est **prêt** à juger les vivants et les morts.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1PE 4:5)

- They are not always **ready** to do so.
  Ils ne sont pas toujours **prêts** à le faire.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 105897)

- Concrete **ready** to pour
  Béton **prêt** à la coulée
  ([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 2163465)

## More sentences

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

- Go tell her to get **ready**.
  Va lui dire de se préparer.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CH and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#3908958](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3908958) [\#12195943](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12195943))

- I told my wife to get **ready** in a hurry.
  Je dis à ma femme de se dépêcher.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Eldad · checked, community translation · [\#257687](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/257687) [\#6499](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6499))

- Tom and Mary are getting **ready** to go out.
  Tom et Marie se préparent pour sortir.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#2538494](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2538494) [\#3474185](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3474185))

## 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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