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# allowing — English to French

How English *allowing* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: allowing (30 387). By style: everyday 8 · literary 12 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 3 072 · legal and administrative 4 828 · UN documents 22 466.

## permettre

Used about 10 941 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 704 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 810 · UN documents ≈ 8 425). Forms: permettant, permettre.

- Liu Manqiang, deputy director of the Chinese Research Centre and College for Social Sciences and Information Technology, says "Information and communication technology has the potential for a huge increase in value; an important goal for the development of China's information technology is **allowing** more rural citizens to benefit from the information technology industry."
  Liu Manqiang, directeur exécutif du Centre Chinois de Recherche et Collège pour les Sciences Sociales et la Technologie de l'Information, déclare : «La technologie de l'information et de la communication possède le potentiel pour une énorme croissance en valeur ; un objectif important pour le développement de la technologie de l'information de la Chine est de **permettre** à davantage de citoyens ruraux de bénéficier de l'industrie de la technologie de l'information.»
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by eastasiastudent and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#767810](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/767810) [\#841892](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/841892))

- I am obliged to you for **allowing** me to pass one more agreeable quarter of an hour.
  Je vous sais gré de me **permettre** de passer encore un quart d'heure agréable.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4594)

- **Allowing** that to happen would amount to throwing the baby out with the bath water.
  Le **permettre** reviendrait à jeter le bébé avec l'eau du bain.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1048461)

- information **allowing** identification of hatching eggs:
  des informations **permettant** l’identification des œufs à couver:
  ([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 5200804)

- Thus, the minimum instruments **allowing** for the prosecution of the perpetrators exist.
  Ainsi, il existe des instruments minima **permettant** de poursuivre les responsables.
  ([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 1174718)

## autoriser

Used about 788 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 384 · legal and administrative ≈ 402).

- **Allowing** all speech just leads to a cesspit of hate.
  **Autoriser** tous les discours ne fait que conduire à un déversoir de haine.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Luornu and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#11235419](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11235419) [\#11235426](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11235426))

- (PL) Madam President, **allowing** private operators to provide postal services is a controversial decision.
  (PL) Madame la Présidente, **autoriser** des opérateurs privés à fournir des services postaux est une décision controversée.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1027527)

- They shall communicate the list of participating vessels to the Commission before **allowing** any landings.
  Ils communiquent à la Commission la liste des navires participants avant d'**autoriser** tout débarquement.
  ([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 4584281)

- I think it's time for me to stop **allowing** her to always have her own way.
  Je pense qu'il est temps que j'arrête de l'**autoriser** à toujours agir à sa guise.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#903875](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/903875) [\#1405652](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1405652))

- Yet everyone knew beforehand that **allowing** professional drivers to drive too long would result in accidents.
  Tout le monde savait pourtant d'avance qu'**autoriser** les chauffeurs professionnels à travailler trop longtemps entraînerait des accidents.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 408456)

## More sentences

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

- I'm **allowing** you to go.
  Je t'autorise à y aller.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1851348](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1851348) [\#1852013](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1852013))

- What were you thinking of in **allowing** the loyalists into the castle?
  Vous pensiez à quoi en laissant les loyalistes dans le château ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Objectivesea and hortusdei · checked, community translation · [\#3469301](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3469301) [\#330902](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/330902))

- I am **allowing** clover to grow on the edges.
  Je laisse du trèfle pousser sur les bords.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Jillyappleseed and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1862578](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1862578) [\#3646509](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3646509))

## Grammar

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