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# préparer — French to English

How French *préparer* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: préparaient (372), préparait (764), prépare (7 403), préparent (2 469), préparer (40 834), prépares (3), préparez (98), préparons (615), préparé (13 329), préparée (4 252), préparées (8 871), préparés (9 547). By style: everyday 642 · literary 17 · biblical 110 · parliamentary 7 043 · legal and administrative 13 018 · UN documents 67 727.

## prepared

Used about 62 733 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 329 · literary ≈ 8 · biblical ≈ 77 · parliamentary ≈ 5 147 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 345 · UN documents ≈ 45 827). Forms: prepare, prepared, preparing. Meaning: [prepared in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prepared/).

- **Préparons**-nous.
  Let's get **prepared**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2007797](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2007797) [\#9025037](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9025037))

- La Thénardier avait eu le temps de se **préparer** au choc.
  The Thénardier had had time to **prepare** herself for the shock.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9023)

- Salut que tu as **préparé** devant tous les peuples,
  which you have **prepared** before the face of all peoples;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 2:31)

- Êtes-vous bien **préparé** ?
  Are you well **prepared**?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 162777)

- Tomates **préparées** ou conservées
  Tomatoes **prepared** or preserved
  ([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 4009049)

## More sentences

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

- Je vais vous donner deux heures pour vous **préparer**.
  I'll give you two hours to get ready.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Talwit and gcaplan · checked, community translation · [\#7255550](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7255550) [\#7257877](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7257877))

- Il ne faut pas **préparer** un plat différent pour chaque personne.
  You don't have to make a different dish for every person.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by TRANG and Liface · checked, community translation · [\#413833](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/413833) [\#4040](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4040))

- Va lui dire de se **préparer**.
  Go tell him to get ready.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CH · checked, community translation · [\#3908957](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3908957) [\#12195943](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12195943))

## 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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