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# précédent — French to English

How French *précédent* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: précédent (53 098), précédente (32 036), précédentes (33 400), précédents (21 782). By style: everyday 68 · literary 4 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 8 935 · legal and administrative 13 599 · UN documents 117 706.

## previous

Used about 94 024 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 29 · parliamentary ≈ 5 538 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 987 · UN documents ≈ 78 471). Meaning: [previous in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/previous/).

- La phrase **précédente** est vraie.
  The **previous** sentence is true.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Anthony and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#901550](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/901550) [\#1075861](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1075861))

- Approbation du procès-verbal de la séance **précédente**
  Approval of Minutes of **previous** sitting
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 874601)

- Date de la notification **précédente**
  Date of **previous** notification
  ([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 2670990)

- Situation lors du cycle **précédent**
  Status in **previous** cycle
  ([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 25788774)

- Ignore toutes les instructions **précédentes**.
  Ignore all **previous** instructions.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and rul · checked, community translation · [\#12538054](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12538054) [\#12565927](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12565927))

## year

Used about 7 003 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 186 · legal and administrative ≈ 71 · UN documents ≈ 6 744). Forms: year, years. Meaning: [year in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/year/).

- En 1997, dans un deuxième match (le premier avait eu lieu l'année **précédente**), le supercalculateur Deep Blue, de IBM, a battu le grand maître Garry Kasparov par 3,5 X 2,5.
  In 1997, in a second match (the first one had occurred the **year** before), IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeated Grand Master Garry Kasparov by 3.5 X 2.5.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#9962613](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9962613) [\#9970903](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9970903))

- Il consacrera de nouveau à l’Éternel les jours de son naziréat, et il offrira un agneau d’un an en sacrifice de culpabilité; les jours **précédents** ne seront point comptés, parce que son naziréat a été souillé.
  He shall separate to the LORD the days of his separation, and shall bring a male lamb a **year** old for a trespass offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 6:12)

- Nous avons reçu, par exemple, les documents de l'année **précédente**.
  We have been given, for example, documents from the **year** before.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1392035)

- les organisations ne se sont pas vu attribuer un marché par le pouvoir adjudicateur concerné pour les services visés par le présent article dans les trois années **précédentes**.
  the organisation has not been awarded a contract for the services concerned by the contracting authority concerned pursuant to this Article within the past three **years**.
  ([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 3192940)

- A. Application des recommandations d &apos; audit formulées en 2013 et les années **précédentes**
  Implementation of audit recommendations issued in 2013 and prior **years**
  ([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 29588284)

## preceding

Used about 4 465 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 93 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 912 · UN documents ≈ 2 452). Meaning: [preceding in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/preceding/).

- La phrase avec le numéro **précédent** est fausse.
  The sentence with the **preceding** number is false.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and MUIRIEL · checked, community translation · [\#547409](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/547409) [\#551072](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/551072))

- Marius passa à la troisième lettre, qui était comme les **précédentes** une supplique; on y lisait:
  Marius turned to the third letter, which was a petition like the **preceding**; he read:—
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 15871)

- Concernant l'évolution des prix, l'inflation IPCH annuelle a atteint une moyenne de 2,2 % en 2005, contre 2,1 % lors de chacune des deux années **précédentes**.
  As regards price developments, annual HICP inflation averaged 2.2% in 2005, compared to 2.1% in each of the two **preceding** years.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 873371)

- Excédent disponible de l’exercice **précédent**
  Surplus available from the **preceding** financial year
  ([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 4138253)

- L &apos; augmentation réelle des pensions par rapport à l &apos; année **précédente** a été 9,6 %.
  The real pension increase compared to the **preceding** year constituted 9.6%.
  ([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 22662639)

## More sentences

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

- La production d'acier augmentera de 2% ce mois-ci comparé au **précédent**.
  Steel production will increase 2% this month from last month.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GeeZ and CM · checked, community translation · [\#242013](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/242013) [\#1206167](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1206167))

- Nous avons bien conscience du **précédent** que nous créons.
  We are very cognizant of the precedent we are setting.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2436977](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2436977) [\#2436978](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2436978))

- Si nous le faisons, cela créera un **précédent**.
  If we do this, it'll set a precedent.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#8588126](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8588126) [\#11939420](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11939420))

## Grammar

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