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Je ne peux pas **permettre** ça. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3408652](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3408652) [\#7108987](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7108987)) - Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he would **allow** them to enter into those. Then he allowed them. Il y avait là, dans la montagne, un grand troupeau de pourceaux qui paissaient. Et les démons supplièrent Jésus de leur **permettre** d’entrer dans ces pourceaux. Il le leur permit. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 8:32) - We must not **allow** this to happen. Nous ne devons pas **permettre** que cela se produise. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1459972) - **allow** visual inspection of the ratites; **permettre** l’inspection visuelle des ratites; ([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 1582281) - **Allows** allocation of responsibility for the management of liabilities; and **Permet** l ' attribution de la responsabilité pour la gestion de ces charges; et ([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 23041650) ## moi Used about 2 640 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 17 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 1 535 · UN documents ≈ 1 076). - **Allow** me to explain. Permets-**moi** d'expliquer. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3426422](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3426422) [\#6462990](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6462990)) - "Well, admitting all your calculations to be quite correct, you must **allow** me to draw one rigid result therefrom." «Mon oncle, repris-je, je tiens pour exact tous vos calculs, mais permettez-**moi** d'en tirer une conséquence rigoureuse. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2153) - **Allow** me, and I also will speak. After I have spoken, mock on. Laissez-**moi** parler, je vous prie; Et, quand j’aurai parlé, tu pourras te moquer. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 21:3) - **Allow** me, in conclusion, to return to the substance of the matter. Permettez-**moi**, pour conclure, de revenir à l'essentiel. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1932238) - Before concluding, **allow** me to share with the Assembly some recent ICT developments in my country. Avant de terminer, permettez-**moi** de faire part à l ' Assemblée de l ' évolution récente des TIC dans mon pays. ([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 8549878) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - My father doesn't **allow** me to go out with Bill. Mon père ne m'autorise pas à sortir avec Bill. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#319158](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/319158) [\#134880](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/134880)) - I **allow** myself no sweets. Je ne m'autorise pas de sucreries. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Tom9358 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#256722](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/256722) [\#584839](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/584839)) - We can't **allow** this. Nous ne pouvons autoriser cela. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Toynop · checked, community translation · [\#5789699](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5789699) [\#5798324](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5798324)) ## 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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