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Forms: permet, permettant, permettre. - Money **enables** you to buy anything. L'argent **permet** de tout acheter. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#18637](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/18637) [\#11967910](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11967910)) - Such was the road to be traversed in seven days, which would **enable** Phileas Fogg—at least, so he hoped—to take the Atlantic steamer at New York on the 11th for Liverpool. Telle était cette longue artère que les trains parcouraient en sept jours, et qui allait **permettre** à l'honorable Phileas Fogg--il l'espérait du moins--de prendre, le 11, à New York, le paquebot de Liverpool. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2153) - It **enables** Europe to take decisions and to act. Il **permet** à l'Europe de décider et d'agir. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 991225) - Member States shall take the necessary measures to **enable**: Les États membres prennent les mesures nécessaires pour **permettre**: ([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 1760216) - It also **enables** the removal of duplicate records. Elle **permet** en outre de supprimer les dossiers multiples. ([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 10438333) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Social networks **enable** men to revive their instinct of pack hunters, like hyena. Les réseaux sociaux permettent aux hommes de retrouver leur instinct de prédation en meute, à l'instar des hyènes. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1035111](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1035111) [\#1035110](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1035110)) - Airplanes **enable** people to travel great distances rapidly. Les avions permettent aux gens de rapidement parcourir de grandes distances. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#318016](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/318016) [\#1117875](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1117875)) - One of the reasons Twitter is popular in Japan is a characteristic of Japanese itself: Japanese uses ideograms which **enable** it to convey more information in just 140 characters than other languages, not counting Chinese. Incidentally, the Japanese version of this sentence is written with exactly 140 characters. How many characters does it take in other languages? Une des raisons qui font le succès de Twitter au Japon tient à une particularité de la langue japonaise. Comparé à bien d’autres langues, le japonais, avec ses idéogrammes, peut véhiculer beaucoup d’informations en 140 caractères, sans pour autant rivaliser avec le chinois. À propos, la version japonaise de cette phrase s’écrit en exactement 140 caractères. Mais combien de caractères cela fait-il donc dans les autres langues ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by MethodGT and gillux · checked, community translation · [\#2687863](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2687863) [\#3526165](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3526165)) ## 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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