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Forms: capable, capables. - He's **capable** of anything. Il est **capable** de tout. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3794125](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3794125) [\#3797226](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3797226)) - My shoes are **capable** of that.” Mes souliers en sont **capables**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18631) - The European Union is **capable** of doing this. L’Union européenne en est **capable**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 603198) - Equipment **capable** of producing any of the following: équipements **capables** de produire l'un des résultats suivants: ([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 478676) - ii) Cryogenic refrigeration units **capable** of temperatures of -120°C or less, or ii) Appareils de réfrigération cryogéniques **capables** d ' atteindre des températures inférieures ou égales à -120 °C, ou ([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 9629286) ## pouvoir Used about 4 608 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 64 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 182 · UN documents ≈ 3 362). - What is within the EU must be made **capable** of sustaining enlargement. Ce qui se trouve au sein de l’UE doit **pouvoir** soutenir l’élargissement. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 535060) - The damper shall also be **capable** of being manually closed from each side of the division. Ce volet doit aussi **pouvoir** être fermé à la main de chaque côté du cloisonnement. ([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 5162147) - The filling and discharge devices shall be **capable** of being secured against unintended opening. Ils doivent **pouvoir** être verrouillés contre une ouverture intempestive. ([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 9712550) - The electrical lines shall not be **capable** of short circuiting even when overloaded; Les circuits électriques ne doivent pas **pouvoir** entrer en court-circuit, même en cas de surcharge; ([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 5478984) - The doors shall be **capable** of being opened or closed on the spot from either side of the bulkhead. Les portes doivent **pouvoir** être manoeuvrées sur place de chaque côté de la cloison. ([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 6745110) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Tom is very **capable**. Tom est très compétent. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and mela · checked, community translation · [\#1093416](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1093416) [\#2808008](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2808008)) - Americans may regard shy people as less **capable** than those who are not shy. Les Américains peuvent considérer les personnes timides comme moins compétentes que celles qui ne le sont pas. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and TRANG · checked, community translation · [\#67467](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/67467) [\#136215](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/136215)) - Computers are **capable** of doing very complicated work in a split second. Les ordinateurs peuvent faire un travail très compliqué en une fraction de seconde. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and Lulantis · checked, community translation · [\#54546](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/54546) [\#11573](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11573)) ## 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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