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# capacities — English to French

How English *capacities* 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: capacities (61 390). By style: parliamentary 768 · legal and administrative 3 049 · UN documents 57 573.

## capacités

Used about 51 524 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 688 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 858 · UN documents ≈ 47 978). Forms: capacité, capacités.

- We have the **capacities**.
  Nous en avons les **capacités**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 507058)

- Spare **capacities** in the exporting countries
  **Capacités** inutilisées dans les pays exportateurs
  ([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 5185290)

- Expert Meeting on Building Productive **Capacities**
  Réunion d &apos; experts sur le renforcement des **capacités** productives
  ([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 16113609)

- We must endeavour to create **capacities**.
  Nous devons nous efforcer de créer des **capacités**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 846385)

- pooling or sharing of transport **capacities**;
  la mise en commun ou le partage de **capacités** de transport;
  ([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 3163749)

## nationales

Used about 2 399 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 2 399).

- More than 60 National Societies received support for developing their **capacities** in disaster management, including proactive measures to reduce risk.
  Elle a aidé plus de 60 Sociétés **nationales** à renforcer leurs moyens de gestion des catastrophes, notamment à intervenir par anticipation pour atténuer le risque.
  ([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 10023888)

- In this regard, we encourage action-oriented coordination among national **capacities** to combat illicit trafficking, consistent with national laws and regulations.
  Dans cette optique, nous incitons les différents acteurs nationaux à collaborer activement dans la lutte contre le trafic, dans le respect des législations et réglementations **nationales**.
  ([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 26730997)

## More sentences

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

- It is within the **capacities** of European agriculture to use agricultural land no longer required for food production to produce energy in the form of biomass.
  L’agriculture européenne est capable d’utiliser les terres agricoles qu’elle n’exploite plus pour la production alimentaire afin de produire de l’énergie sous forme de biomasse.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 762182)

- **Capacities** are now waiting in the wings.
  Imaginez les rendements qui seront bientôt atteints.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1013292)

- I have made this very clear: International Maritime Organisation, corridors for dangerous products, sea room distances, special control in passes and straits, greater **capacities** for coastal States.
  Je l'ai dit très clairement : OMI, corridors pour les produits dangereux, distances de sécurité, contrôle particulier des détroits, pouvoirs plus grands pour les États côtiers.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 393725)

## Grammar

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