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# préserver — French to English

How French *préserver* 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: préservaient (15), préservait (57), préserve (1 361), préservent (707), préserver (37 428), préserves (1), préservez (13), préservons (49), préservé (1 197), préservée (1 212), préservées (736), préservés (1 041). By style: everyday 38 · literary 1 · biblical 9 · parliamentary 4 187 · legal and administrative 3 034 · UN documents 36 548.

## preserved

Used about 16 990 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 14 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 213 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 110 · UN documents ≈ 14 653). Forms: preserve, preserved. Meaning: [preserved in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/preserved/).

- Il faut **préserver** cet héritage.
  We must **preserve** this heritage.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and Miktsoanit · checked, community translation · [\#12198152](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12198152) [\#8689705](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8689705))

- L'angle qu'elle faisait avec le pignon du grand bâtiment était rempli, dans sa partie inférieure, d'un massif de maçonnerie de forme triangulaire, probablement destiné à **préserver** ce trop commode recoin des stations de ces stercoraires qu'on appelle les passants.
  The angle which it formed with the gable of the large building was filled, at its lower extremity, by a mass of masonry of a triangular shape, probably intended to **preserve** that too convenient corner from the rubbish of those dirty creatures called the passers-by.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9841)

- L'environnement se **préserve**.
  The environment must be **preserved**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 403653)

- l'intégrité des données est **préservée**;
  the integrity of data is **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 1155623)

- Il doit être **préservé** et appliqué par tous.
  That Agreement must be **preserved** and implemented by all.
  ([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 23199529)

## maintained

Used about 5 480 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 478 · legal and administrative ≈ 671 · UN documents ≈ 4 329). Forms: maintain, maintained. Meaning: [maintained in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/maintained/).

- Signaler des paroles haineuses peut aider à **préserver** un milieu sûr en ligne.
  Reporting hate speech can help **maintain** a safe online environment.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#12106907](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12106907) [\#12864057](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12864057))

- Il faut **préserver** l'offre et la demande.
  Supply and demand must be **maintained**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 497677)

- Garantir que les normes de qualité sont **préservées**
  Ensuring that quality standards are **maintained**
  ([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 4855584)

- Mais nous devons les aider à **préserver** une paix fragile.
  But we must help them to **maintain** fragile peace.
  ([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 13179062)

- L’intégrité territoriale sera ainsi **préservée**.
  That way, territorial integrity will also be **maintained**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 625301)

## More sentences

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

- Vous devez **préserver** cette machine de la poussière.
  You must keep this machine free from dust.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#59823](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/59823) [\#1462948](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1462948))

- Tu dois **préserver** cette machine de la poussière.
  You must keep this machine free from dust.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#59823](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/59823) [\#1462947](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1462947))

- Nous devons **préserver** l'eau.
  We've got to conserve water.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3309956](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3309956) [\#5406015](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5406015))

## Grammar

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