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As-tu **pu** t'asseoir ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5785899](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5785899) [\#6380884](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6380884)) - Happily for Jean Valjean that he had been **able** to weep. Ce fut un bonheur pour Jean Valjean d'avoir **pu** pleurer. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30067) - saying, ‘This man began to build and wasn’t **able** to finish.’ en disant: Cet homme a commencé à bâtir, et il n’a **pu** achever? ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 14:30) - Parliament has not been **able** to make up its mind to decisively reject the use of Galileo for military purposes. Le Parlement européen n'a pas **pu** se résoudre à opposer un refus clair à l'utilisation militaire de Galileo. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 291947) - On this basis, the airport was **able** to forecast the revenue generated by the Agreement with Ryanair. L’aéroport a **pu** prévoir sur cette base les recettes qui seraient générées par l’accord Ryanair. ([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 2226108) ## pouvoir Used about 17 647 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 137 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 5 150 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 618 · UN documents ≈ 9 733). - I'm likely to be **able** to do that. Je suis susceptible de **pouvoir** le faire. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#6706302](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6706302) [\#6707177](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6707177)) - We regret that we are not **able** to offer to our readers this remarkable piece. Nous regrettons de ne **pouvoir** offrir à nos lecteurs ce morceau remarquable. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5102) - Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be **able** to stand against the wiles of the devil. Revêtez-vous de toutes les armes de Dieu, afin de **pouvoir** tenir ferme contre les ruses du diable. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EPH 6:11) - As it is not a ban, we should be **able** to vote on it. Comme il ne s’agit pas d’une interdiction, nous devrions **pouvoir** voter sur cet amendement. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 587987) - In the latter case the contracting authority should always be **able** to justify the choice. Le **pouvoir** adjudicateur doit dans ce dernier cas toujours être en mesure de justifier son choix. ([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 708410) ## mesure Used about 13 390 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 46 · parliamentary ≈ 4 507 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 945 · UN documents ≈ 3 893). - This single mother works two jobs just to be **able** to pay the rent and feed her children. Cette mère célibataire a deux emplois juste pour être en **mesure** de payer le loyer et nourrir ses enfants. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#4042295](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4042295) [\#4043717](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4043717)) - Characteristically, I am not **able** to do that. Je ne suis, comme à l'accoutumée, pas en **mesure** de le faire. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 265877) - Household will not be **able** to repay debt Le ménage ne sera pas en **mesure** de rembourser la dette ([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 1212149) - They should also ensure that children are **able** to communicate and participate in discussions outside the meeting. Ils doivent aussi veiller à ce que les enfants soient en **mesure** de communiquer et de participer aux discussions en dehors de la réunion. ([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 29491866) - The defense lawyer was confident that he would be **able** to answer the prosecutor's arguments in his rebuttal. L'avocat de la défense était sûr qu'il serait en **mesure** de répondre aux arguments du procureur dans sa réfutation. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#1969](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1969) [\#8976689](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8976689)) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - He was **able** to admit when he was wrong. Il était capable d'admettre qu'il avait tort. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and Odhran\_Gwydhenn · checked, community translation · [\#12272524](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12272524) [\#12270183](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12270183)) - Is Tom **able** to eat? Est-ce que Tom est capable de manger ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and pititnatole · checked, community translation · [\#4902765](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4902765) [\#5487265](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5487265)) - Are you **able** to play organ? Pouvez-vous jouer de l'orgue ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sicerabibax and fucongcong · checked, community translation · [\#4841310](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4841310) [\#10840](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10840)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/). ## 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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