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# précédente — French to English

How French *précédente* 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: précédente (32 036), précédentes (33 400). By style: everyday 29 · literary 3 · parliamentary 3 615 · legal and administrative 7 858 · UN documents 53 931.

## previous

Used about 48 392 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 14 · parliamentary ≈ 2 598 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 894 · UN documents ≈ 39 886). 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)

- pour 2005 et les années **précédentes**
  the accounts for 2005 and **previous** 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 16582307)

- 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 5 252 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 113 · legal and administrative ≈ 82 · UN documents ≈ 5 056). 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))

- 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)

- Ainsi que je l’ai indiqué plus tôt, à la même époque l’année **précédente**, nous avions débloqué à peine le cinquième de ce montant.
  At the same time last **year**, we had not even given one fifth of that, as I mentioned very clearly.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 806709)

## preceding

Used about 3 598 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 38 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 310 · UN documents ≈ 2 247). Meaning: [preceding in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/preceding/).

- Si l'espéranto se diffusa aussi largement dans les douze années **précédentes**, la cause en résida principalement en ce que les discussions théoriques sur la langue elle-même avaient déjà cessé.
  If Esperanto was progressing so greatly during the **preceding** twelve years, the main reason lay in the fact that theoretical discussion concerning the language itself had already ceased.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Objectivesea · checked, community translation · [\#4433448](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4433448) [\#4430318](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4430318))

- 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)

- des résultats des contrôles effectués au cours des années **précédentes**;
  the findings of checks performed in the **preceding** 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 982556)

- 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.

- Je n'avais pas pu dormir la nuit **précédente**, et je somnolai durant toute la réunion.
  I had gotten no sleep the night before, so I kept dropping off during the meeting.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Yemana and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#2298630](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2298630) [\#5667506](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5667506))

- « J'aime bien prendre de la hauteur. Vous savez, dans ma vie **précédente**, je devais être... un avion ? » « D'habitude, on dit “oiseau”. »
  "I rather like heights. You know, in my last life I must have been ... an aeroplane?" "Usually that would be 'bird' there."
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and fcbond · checked, community translation · [\#328887](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/328887) [\#11462006](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11462006))

- La Biélorussie a été qualifiée par la **précédente** Secrétaire d'état étasunienne, Condoleezza Rice, de « Dernière véritable dictature au cœur de l'Europe ».
  Belarus has been described by former US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice as "the last remaining true dictatorship in the heart of Europe".
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2224102](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2224102) [\#2224111](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2224111))

## Grammar

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