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Meaning: [prevention in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/prevention/). - Qui peut le **prévenir** ? Who can **prevent** it? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and \_undertoad · checked, community translation · [\#2270201](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2270201) [\#3245347](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3245347)) - On connaît le vieil adage qui dit mieux vaut **prévenir** que guérir. As we know, there is an old saying, **prevention** is better than cure. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 82078) - Mesures destinées à **prévenir** les défauts de règlement Measures to **prevent** settlement fails ([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 4673861) - Il vaut mieux **prévenir** que guérir. She felt very strongly that **prevention** was better than cure. ([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 16979071) - **Prévenir** vaut mieux que guérir. **Prevention** is better than cure. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Eldad · checked, community translation · [\#264381](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/264381) [\#6742083](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6742083)) ## measures Used about 2 201 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 172 · legal and administrative ≈ 120 · UN documents ≈ 1 908). - Il faut **prévenir**, adopter des mesures préventives afin d' éviter que ce type de catastrophe ne se reproduise. We must adopt preventative **measures** which can stop disasters like this from happening in the future. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 19881) - prennent les mesures de précaution nécessaires pour **prévenir** tout risque de contamination par des substances ou produits non autorisés; take precautionary **measures** to avoid the risk of contamination by unauthorised substances or products; ([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 4078223) - L ' État partie devrait en outre prendre toutes les mesures possibles pour **prévenir** les décès d ' adolescentes causés par un avortement. Furthermore, the State party should take all possible **measures** to address the issue of the deaths of teenage girls as a result of abortions. ([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 15211575) - Désormais, les États membres se voient contraints de prendre des mesures d'urgence appropriées en vue de pouvoir **prévenir** les graves dangers relatifs aux aliments pour animaux. Member States will now be obliged to introduce appropriate emergency **measures** to deal with serious risks involving feed. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 189327) - Nous estimons qu'il doit être révisé ou, à tout le moins, qu'il est nécessaire de prévoir des mesures d'aide afin de **prévenir** les problèmes des PME. We would argue that it needs to be revised or, at the least, that there needs to be provision for aid **measures** to guard against the problems of SMEs. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1387524) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Je voulais juste te **prévenir**. I just wanted to warn you. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2374126](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2374126) [\#11151733](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11151733)) - J'ai essayé de te **prévenir**. I've tried to warn you. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2360658](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2360658) [\#2025298](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2025298)) - Veuillez me **prévenir** quand vous n'arriverez plus à entendre cela. Please tell me when you cannot hear this anymore. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and NurseMeeks · checked, community translation · [\#9853889](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9853889) [\#9934866](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9934866)) ## 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. 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