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# empêcher — French to English

How French *empêcher* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: empêchaient (1 158), empêchait (1 607), empêche (15 664), empêchent (11 654), empêcher (67 711), empêches (1), empêchez (29), empêchons (61), empêché (9 412), empêchée (1 167), empêchées (651), empêchés (1 937). By style: everyday 338 · literary 37 · biblical 42 · parliamentary 8 954 · legal and administrative 8 995 · UN documents 92 686.

## prevent

Used about 53 314 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 110 · literary ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 4 666 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 694 · UN documents ≈ 42 826). Forms: prevent, prevented, preventing. Meaning: [prevent in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prevent/).

- Je fus incapable d'**empêcher** ceci.
  I was unable to **prevent** this.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2543177](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2543177) [\#6380839](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6380839))

- --**Empêchons** toujours le second coup, dit Enjolras.
  “Let us **prevent** the second discharge,” said Enjolras.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26025)

- Nous l'avons **empêchée**.
  We have **prevented** it from doing so.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1010328)

- Dispositions spécifiques pour **empêcher** tout flux de gaz
  Specific provisions to **prevent** any gas flow
  ([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 5562549)

- **Empêchez** l &apos; exploitation sexuelle des enfants.
  **Prevent** sexual exploitation of children.
  ([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 13423934)

## More sentences

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

- Personne ne peut nous **empêcher** de faire ça.
  Nobody can stop us from doing that.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5909887](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5909887) [\#7141561](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7141561))

- Je ne peux pas t'**empêcher** de révéler mes secrets. Cependant, je te demande de ne pas les faire.
  I can't stop you from revealing my secrets. However, I beg you not to.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Despear and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1954940](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1954940) [\#2114939](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2114939))

- Je ne peux simplement pas m'**empêcher** de me faire du souci à votre sujet.
  I just can't help worrying about you.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2362112](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2362112) [\#2370499](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2370499))

## 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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