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# éviter — French to English

How French *éviter* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: évitaient (53), évitait (135), évite (2 169), évitent (1 226), éviter (99 243), évites (6), évitez (55), évitons (220), évité (2 055), évitée (1 394), évitées (1 296), évités (1 791). By style: everyday 282 · literary 14 · biblical 12 · parliamentary 12 787 · legal and administrative 15 364 · UN documents 81 184.

## avoid

Used about 59 838 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 176 · literary ≈ 11 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 5 963 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 345 · UN documents ≈ 43 343). Forms: avoid, avoided. Meaning: [avoid in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/avoid/).

- **Évite**-le à tout prix.
  **Avoid** it at all cost.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2890971](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2890971) [\#6461233](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6461233))

- --Comment! pour qu'on vous **évite**?
  “What! so that you may be **avoided**?”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 10092)

- **Évite**-la, n’y passe point; Détourne-t’en, et passe outre.
  **Avoid** it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 4:15)

- Pouvait-elle être **évitée**?
  Could it have been **avoided**?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 960646)

- **Éviter** de respirer les vapeurs.
  **Avoid** breathing in the fumes.
  ([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 5013628)

## prevented

Used about 10 298 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 1 849 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 266 · UN documents ≈ 7 168). Forms: prevent, prevented.

- Cela aurait pu être **évité**.
  That could've been **prevented**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3008799](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3008799) [\#5589088](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5589088))

- Ces décès pourraient être **évités**.
  These deaths could be **prevented**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 984178)

- La pauvreté au travail doit être **évitée**.
  In-work poverty shall be **prevented**.
  ([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 4223983)

- De nouvelles crises doivent être **évitées**.
  New crises must be **prevented**.
  ([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 21845100)

- L'accident aurait pu être **évité**.
  The accident could have been **prevented**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Fenrir and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#9377639](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9377639) [\#11759400](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11759400))

## any

Used about 1 828 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 223 · legal and administrative ≈ 436 · UN documents ≈ 1 167). Meaning: [any in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/any/).

- De certaines habitudes étranges, arriver à l'heure où les autres partent, s'effacer pendant que les autres s'étalent, garder dans toutes les occasions ce qu'on pourrait appeler le manteau couleur de muraille, chercher l'allée solitaire, préférer la rue déserte, ne point se mêler aux conversations, **éviter** les foules et les fêtes, sembler à son aise et vivre pauvrement, avoir, tout riche qu'on est, sa clef dans sa poche et sa chandelle chez le portier, entrer par la petite porte, monter par l'escalier dérobé, toutes ces singularités insignifiantes, rides, bulles d'air, plis fugitifs à la surface, viennent souvent d'un fond formidable.
  Certain strange habits: arriving at the hour when other people are taking their leave, keeping in the background when other people are displaying themselves, preserving on all occasions what may be designated as the wall-colored mantle, seeking the solitary walk, preferring the deserted street, avoiding **any** share in conversation, avoiding crowds and festivals, seeming at one’s ease and living poorly, having one’s key in one’s pocket, and one’s candle at the porter’s lodge, however rich one may be, entering by the side door, ascending the private staircase,—all these insignificant singularities, fugitive folds on the surface, often proceed from a formidable foundation.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 31039)

- Cette méthode de pêche au thon **évite** toute prise accessoire.
  There is no by-catch of **any** kind associated with this method of tuna fishing.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 691913)

- qui **évite** toute discrimination entre les opérateurs intéressés.
  avoids **any** discrimination between the operators concerned.
  ([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 1303162)

- Le droit international humanitaire **évite** donc de prendre position sur la légalité des mouvements d &apos; insurrection.
  Accordingly, international humanitarian law avoids to take **any** position on the legality of insurgency movements.
  ([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 17920795)

- Les États-Unis, comme nous savons, **évitent** de prendre tout engagement.
  As we know, the United States are loath to make **any** kind of commitment.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 326978)

## could

Used about 1 294 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 128 · UN documents ≈ 1 167).

- Comme M. Goerens, je pense seulement que quelques conditionnels auraient pu être **évités**.
  Like Mr Goerens I just think it **could** have been less conditional.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1714741)

- Selon les études, 78 % des décès maternels pourraient être **évités**.
  According to the surveys, 78% of mothers who died **could** be saved.
  ([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 24212600)

- Je crois, par conséquent, que M. Schulz aurait **éviter** certains propos.
  I thus believe that Mr Schulz **could** have spared himself the effort of making certain remarks.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 15729)

- Ainsi, environ 30 % des décès de moins d &apos; un an pourraient être **évités** si tout le monde avait accès aux services du planning familial.
  From this and other perspectives, about 30 per cent of annual infant deaths **could** be reduced through general access to family planning services;
  ([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 9153073)

- Je me suis souvent demandé par la suite combien de millions de morts auraient pu être **évitées** si l'on était déjà intervenu dans les années 30.
  Since then, I have often wondered how many millions of lives **could** have been saved if we had intervened as early as in the 1930s.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 437092)

## More sentences

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

- Que faites-vous pour **éviter** l'ennui ?
  What do you do to keep yourself from getting bored?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#7463609](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7463609) [\#8418519](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8418519))

- Il est temps d'agir efficacement pour **éviter** le désastre.
  It is time to take effective action to ward off disaster.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Dreamk33 and Dreamk33 · checked, community translation · [\#2143062](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2143062) [\#2143071](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2143071))

- Il a tendance à **éviter** tout ce qui implique de parler en public.
  He tends to shy away from anything that involves public speaking.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CM · checked, community translation · [\#270625](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/270625) [\#11292548](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11292548))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/).

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