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# précédentes — French to English

How French *précédentes* 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: précédentes (33 400). By style: everyday 9 · literary 2 · parliamentary 1 320 · legal and administrative 3 043 · UN documents 29 026.

## previous

Used about 25 341 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 935 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 029 · UN documents ≈ 22 374). Meaning: [previous in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/previous/).

- 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))

- C'est un cadeau que nous ont fait les générations **précédentes**.
  It is a gift from **previous** generations, from our forefathers.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2017726)

- Ces transferts ne concernent pas les années **précédentes**.
  Such transfers shall not affect **previous** 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 5224804)

- 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)

- Ignorez 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) [\#12565926](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12565926))

## years

Used about 2 482 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 63 · UN documents ≈ 2 419).

- 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)

- Le débat s &apos; appuyait sur les plans de travail annuels des deux années **précédentes**.
  The basis for the discussions was the completed yearly workplans for the past two **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 23027374)

- 46. Les coauteurs du projet espèrent que, comme les années **précédentes**, celui-ci sera adopté sans vote.
  46. The sponsors of the draft resolution hoped that, as in past **years**, it would be adopted without a vote.
  ([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 12218171)

- Le PIB régional devrait baisser de 5,4 % en 2009, soit plus de 10 points de pourcentage par rapport à la croissance de 2008 et la moyenne des sept années **précédentes**.
  Regional GDP is expected to fall by 5.4 per cent in 2009, down by more than 10 percentage points from growth in 2008 and the average of the preceding seven **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 20719920)

## earlier

Used about 2 024 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 83 · legal and administrative ≈ 127 · UN documents ≈ 1 814). Meaning: [earlier in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/earlier/).

- Après avoir franchi le point culminant du film, j'ai souhaité pouvoir remonter le temps pour revoir les scènes **précédentes**.
  After watching the movie’s climax, I wished I could rewind time to see the **earlier** scenes again.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#13642146](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13642146) [\#13642148](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13642148))

- Il est bon de remarquer que les **précédentes** réglementations en la matière ont fait l'objet de nombreuses modifications.
  It is worth noting that those **earlier** crop regulations have been the subject of many modifications.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1712175)

- La transposition des dispositions inchangées est effectuée en vertu des directives **précédentes**.
  The obligation to transpose the provisions which are unchanged arises under the **earlier** Directives.
  ([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 1746007)

- Le niveau des fonds extrabudgétaires alloués en 1998 n’a pas atteint celui des années **précédentes**.
  26. In 1998, the level of extrabudgetary funding did not reach the levels achieved in **earlier** 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 5878622)

- Vous faites référence, dans ce contexte, aux **précédentes** résolutions du Parlement à l'occasion du rapport Cunha qui traitait du même thème.
  You refer in this context to **earlier** resolutions by Parliament on the Cunha report on the same subject.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 219412)

## preceding

Used about 601 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 28 · legal and administrative ≈ 571). 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)

- Huit ou dix mois donc après ce qui a été raconté dans les pages **précédentes**, vers les premiers jours de janvier 1823, un soir qu'il avait neigé, un de ces élégants, un de ces désoeuvrés, un "bien pensant", car il avait un morillo, de plus chaudement enveloppé d'un de ces grands manteaux qui complétaient dans les temps froids le costume à la mode, se divertissait à harceler une créature qui rôdait en robe de bal et toute décolletée avec des fleurs sur la tête devant la vitre du café des officiers.
  Eight or ten months, then, after that which is related in the **preceding** pages, towards the first of January, 1823, on a snowy evening, one of these dandies, one of these unemployed, a “right thinker,” for he wore a morillo, and was, moreover, warmly enveloped in one of those large cloaks which completed the fashionable costume in cold weather, was amusing himself by tormenting a creature who was prowling about in a ball-dress, with neck uncovered and flowers in her hair, in front of the officers’ café.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4197)

## More sentences

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

- Avez-vous déjà eu des complications lors de vos **précédentes** grossesses ?
  Have you ever had any complications during past pregnancies?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and NurseMeeks · checked, community translation · [\#9853798](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9853798) [\#9965053](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9965053))

- Ils ont demandé ses expériences **précédentes**.
  They inquired about his past experience.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by JnRouvignac and CK · checked, community translation · [\#307358](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/307358) [\#432251](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/432251))

- Pensez-vous que les générations **précédentes** vivaient mieux ?
  Do you think that the prior generations lived better?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11348569](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11348569) [\#11348571](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11348571))

## 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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