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# préparatifs — French to English

How French *préparatifs* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: préparatifs (32 840). By style: everyday 9 · literary 1 · biblical 4 · parliamentary 917 · legal and administrative 259 · UN documents 31 650.

## preparations

Used about 27 242 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 650 · legal and administrative ≈ 210 · UN documents ≈ 26 375). Forms: preparation, preparations.

- Les **préparatifs** battent leur plein.
  **Preparations** are in full swing.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and viorel · checked, community translation · [\#6061745](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6061745) [\#10727094](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10727094))

- Marius, qui avait toujours présent à l'esprit l'inflexible grand-père de ses premières années, vit dans ce silence une profonde concentration de colère, en augura une lutte acharnée, et augmenta dans les arrière-recoins de sa pensée ses **préparatifs** de combat.
  Marius, who had always present to his mind the inflexible grandfather of his early years, interpreted this silence as a profound concentration of wrath, augured from it a hot conflict, and augmented his **preparations** for the fray in the inmost recesses of his mind.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28917)

- David disait: Mon fils Salomon est jeune et d’un âge faible, et la maison qui sera bâtie à l’Éternel s’élèvera à un haut degré de renommée et de gloire dans tous les pays; c’est pourquoi je veux faire pour lui des **préparatifs**. Et David fit beaucoup de **préparatifs** avant sa mort.
  David said, “Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries. I will therefore make **preparation** for it.” So David prepared abundantly before his death.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CH 22:5)

- Des **préparatifs** en ce sens sont en cours.
  **Preparations** are in hand for that.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1828403)

- **Préparatifs** avant l'essai
  **Preparations** prior to testing
  ([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 5556416)

## preparatory

Used about 2 024 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 19 · legal and administrative ≈ 27 · UN documents ≈ 1 978).

- Cela nous donnerait la possibilité, lors des **préparatifs** de la conférence de Kyoto, d'engager de sérieuses négociations quant à cette réduction.
  That will enable us to initiate serious negotiations on reduction targets at the **preparatory** meetings prior to the Kyoto Conference.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1744024)

- Les **préparatifs** tels que l'obtention d'autorisations et la réalisation d'études de faisabilité ne sont pas considérés comme le début des travaux; (jj)
  **Preparatory** works such as obtaining permits and conducting feasibility studies are not considered as start of works;
  ([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 5663854)

- Appuyer les **préparatifs** de l &apos; examen du Protocole relatif aux POP.
  Support **preparatory** work for the review of the Protocol on POPs.
  ([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 9243295)

- Cela devrait permettre aux États membres d'engager les **préparatifs** nécessaires pour achever la mise en œuvre dans les délais convenus.
  This should allow the Member States to undertake the necessary **preparatory** work with a view to completing implementation within the agreed deadlines.
  ([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 3215685)

- - **Préparatifs** en vue de la ratification de la Convention européenne des droits de l &apos; homme (Revue hongroise de droit, 1991)
  **Preparatory** steps for the ratification of the European Convention on Human Rights (Hungarian Law Review, 1991)
  ([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 986797)

## 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 pris en charge les **préparatifs** de la fête.
  He took charge of the arrangements for the party.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CM · checked, community translation · [\#283258](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/283258) [\#11949270](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11949270))

- Il s'affaire aux **préparatifs** du voyage.
  He is busy preparing for the trip.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#304699](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/304699) [\#1975193](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1975193))

- Je ferai tous les **préparatifs**.
  I'll make all the arrangements.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2541947](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2541947) [\#4875423](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4875423))

## Grammar

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