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Il n'a pas la **capacité** d'être président. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#284836](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/284836) [\#1390138](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1390138)) - 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) - Cooperation and **capacity** building Coopération et renforcement des **capacités** ([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 336614) - V. **CAPACITY**-BUILDING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE V. RENFORCEMENT DES **CAPACITÉS** ET ASSISTANCE TECHNIQUE ([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 20351041) - This elevator's **capacity** is ten people. La **capacité** de cet ascenseur est de dix personnes. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Romira · checked, community translation · [\#61310](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/61310) [\#181471](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/181471)) ## renforcer Used about 3 961 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 3 961). Forms: renforcement, renforcer. - 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) ## production Used about 450 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 74 · legal and administrative ≈ 376). - 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) - The following biofuel production **capacities** are to be declared: Les puissances de **production** pour les biocarburants suivants doivent être déclarées: ([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 2880231) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - We adults shouldn't destroy the intelligent and creative **capacity** of children. Nous autres adultes ne détruisons pas les facultés intelligentes et créatrices des enfants. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#249537](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/249537) [\#5647026](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5647026)) - This bottle has a **capacity** of one litre. Cette bouteille a une contenance d'un litre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#11960258](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11960258) [\#11940269](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11940269)) - Our factories are working at full **capacity**. Nos usines tournent à plein régime. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#23412](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/23412) [\#825230](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/825230)) ## 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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