Usage examples of "avertir" in French with translation to English

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Les Grecs inventèrent la virgule, non pour leur littérature mais pour leurs acteurs, pour les avertir de prendre une longue inspiration en préparation d'une longue phrase à venir ; une virgule représente donc une pause. The Greeks invented the comma, not for their literature but for their actors, to warn them to take a deep breath in preparation of an upcoming long phrase; thus a comma represents a pause.
Je t'ai suffisamment averti. I gave you fair warning.
Par exemple, si un professeur qui fume lui-même comme une cheminée avertit un étudiant parce qu'il fume, c'est une contradiction. For example, if a chain-smoking teacher cautions a pupil for smoking, that warning is self-contradictory.
Je vous ai suffisamment averti. I gave you fair warning.
Par exemple, si un enseignant lui-même gros fumeur avertit un élève des dangers de la cigarette, c'est comme s'il se contredisait. For example, if a chain-smoking teacher cautions a pupil for smoking, that warning is self-contradictory.
Je vous ai suffisamment avertie. I gave you fair warning.
Je t'ai suffisamment avertie. I gave you fair warning.
Je vous ai suffisamment averties. I gave you fair warning.
Je vous ai suffisamment avertis. I gave you fair warning.
Je vous ai bien assez averti. I gave you fair warning.
Je t'ai bien assez averti. I gave you fair warning.
Je t'ai bien assez avertie. I gave you fair warning.
Je vous ai bien assez avertie. I gave you fair warning.
Je vous ai bien assez averties. I gave you fair warning.
Ils avertirent le navire du danger. They warned the ship of the danger.
Je vous ai bien assez avertis. I gave you fair warning.
On l'a averti à plusieurs reprises. He has been warned on several occasions.
Les médecins nous ont avertis d'un probable danger. Doctors warn us of a possible danger.
Le médecin l'a averti des dangers de la cigarette. The doctor warned him of the dangers of smoking.
La radio nous a averti d'un risque d'inondation. The radio warned us of the possibility of flooding.
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