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Meaning: [preliminary in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/preliminary/). - Une audience **préliminaire** est prévue pour le 20 octobre. A **preliminary** hearing is scheduled for October 20th. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4499274](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4499274) [\#5814336](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5814336)) - Nos pensées **préliminaires** sont les suivantes. Our **preliminary** thoughts are as follows. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 359343) - Contrôles **préliminaires** pour le processus **Preliminary** checks for the process ([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 522053) - Point 39 de la liste **préliminaire**\* Item 39 of the **preliminary** list\* ([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 18024846) - Avant que nous commencions, un certain nombre de remarques **préliminaires** sont nécessaires. Before we begin, a number of **preliminary** remarks are in order. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#1528625](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1528625) [\#1528641](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1528641)) ## pre Used about 4 958 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 172 · UN documents ≈ 4 786). - Traitement **préliminaire** des échantillons, transport et stockage **Pre**-treatment of samples, transport and storage ([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 1048252) - Les procédures **préliminaires** sont en cours. **Pre**-trial proceedings are currently underway. ([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 27614669) - Le 28 février 2020, l’enquête **préliminaire** a repris en vue de la réalisation d’actes de procédure et d’enquête. On 28 February 2020, the **pre**-trial investigation was resumed with a view to carrying out procedural and investigative actions. ([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 5378433) - 108. Décision de la Chambre **préliminaire** au titre de l ' alinéa a) du paragraphe 3 de l ' article 53 108. Decision of the **Pre**-Trial Chamber under article 53, paragraph 3 (a) ([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 7416562) - La cour a conclu que M. Kurchenko tentait d’échapper aux autorités chargées de l’enquête **préliminaire** afin de se soustraire à sa responsabilité pénale. The Court concluded that Mr Kurchenko is hiding from the **pre**-trial investigation bodies in order to avoid criminal liability. ([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 5345514) ## findings Used about 69 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 69). Meaning: [findings in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/findings/). - Compte tenu des conclusions **préliminaires**, il a été jugé opportun de ne pas instituer de mesures provisoires mais de poursuivre l’enquête. On the basis of the provisional **findings** it was considered appropriate not to impose any provisional measures but to continue the investigation. ([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 1670469) - Compte tenu des conclusions **préliminaires**, il a été jugé opportun de ne pas instituer de droit antidumping provisoire mais de poursuivre l’enquête. On the basis of the provisional **findings** it was considered appropriate not to impose any provisional anti-dumping duty but to continue the investigation. ([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 1658523) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Il a procédé à tout le travail **préliminaire**. He did all the legwork. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2130915](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2130915) [\#3586982](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3586982)) - Une étude de l'impact doit être **préliminaire**. You do an impact study beforehand. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1763202) - Je suis ravie que notre liste **préliminaire** de domaines politiques dans lesquels l'instrument pourrait être utilisé aille de concert avec votre accord. I am pleased that our tentative list of policy areas in which the instrument could be used meets with your agreement. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 452108) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. Every example names its source and licence. 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