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# might — English to French

How English *might* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

What it means: [might in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/might/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: might (137 829), mights (2). By style: everyday 948 · literary 132 · biblical 380 · parliamentary 12 409 · legal and administrative 7 363 · UN documents 116 599.

## pourrait

Used about 57 272 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 395 · literary ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 3 102 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 454 · UN documents ≈ 51 304). Forms: pourraient, pourrait.

- I **might** be interested.
  Ça **pourrait** m’intéresser.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Orange and Orange · checked, community translation · [\#12225806](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12225806) [\#12225799](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12225799))

- "No, Axel; the open air **might** be bad for you."
  —-Non, Axel, non! le grand air **pourrait** te faire du mal.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2538)

- You **might** think so....
  On **pourrait** le penser...
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1694154)

- Is concerned that ultimately similar errors **might** exist in all Member States;
  s’inquiète de ce que des erreurs semblables **pourraient** exister en fin de compte dans tous les États membres;
  ([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 5601920)

- Pyridine **might** be evaluated differently now.
  Aujourd &apos; hui, la pyridine **pourrait** être évaluée différemment.
  ([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 25215711)

## peut

Used about 19 943 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 257 · literary ≈ 19 · parliamentary ≈ 1 810 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 534 · UN documents ≈ 16 324).

- He **might** have come.
  Il est **peut**-être venu.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lebensfreude and samir\_t · checked, community translation · [\#10803423](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10803423) [\#7428224](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7428224))

- Besides, we **might** miss the funeral without missing the riot.”
  D'ailleurs on **peut** manquer l'enterrement, sans manquer l'émeute.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23800)

- In this area, we are going beyond, one **might** say, what has been done up to now.
  Dans ce domaine, nous allons au-delà, **peut**-on dire, de ce qui a été fait jusqu'à présent.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1663626)

- It **might** indeed be entirely different from the Consortium.
  Il **peut** s’agir d’un tout autre groupe que le consortium.
  ([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 1397318)

- The &quot; crisis &quot; referred to **might** be of an economic or social nature.
  La &lt; &lt; crise &gt; &gt; dont il est fait mention **peut** être d &apos; ordre économique ou social.
  ([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 9008200)

## tout

Used about 4 847 times in the texts (literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 24 · legal and administrative ≈ 153 · UN documents ≈ 4 664).

- “By the way, Monsieur Fabre, I **might** as well say it to you at once.”
  --Monsieur Fabre, tenez, autant que je vous dise **tout** de suite.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17676)

- I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I **might** observe your word.
  Je retiens mon pied loin de **tout** mauvais chemin, Afin de garder ta parole.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 119:101)

- ‘serious incident’ means any incident that directly or indirectly led, **might** have led or **might** lead to any of the following:
  «incident grave», **tout** incident ayant entraîné directement ou indirectement, susceptible d'avoir entraîné ou susceptible d'entraîner:
  ([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 4312279)

- Some **might** ridicule the common Belarusian saying &quot; Only let there be no war &quot; .
  D &apos; aucuns tourneraient en dérision le proverbe bélarussien bien connu : &lt; &lt; **Tout** sauf la guerre &gt; &gt; .
  ([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 13348623)

- Nevertheless, when our poet beheld quiet reestablished to some extent, he devised a stratagem which **might** have redeemed all.
  Pourtant quand notre poète vit le calme un peu rétabli, il imagina un stratagème qui eût **tout** sauvé.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 538)

## être

Used about 2 747 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 79 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 16 · legal and administrative ≈ 307 · UN documents ≈ 2 332).

- I thought you **might** be upset.
  Je pensais que vous pourriez **être** contrariée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1961628](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1961628) [\#2137692](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2137692))

- It **might** have been half-past eight o’clock in the evening.
  Il pouvait **être** huit heures et demie du soir.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28030)

- to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time, that he **might** himself be just and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
  de montrer sa justice dans le temps présent, de manière à **être** juste tout en justifiant celui qui a la foi en Jésus.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 3:26)

- Applicants shall be free from herniae that **might** give rise to incapacitating symptoms.
  Le demandeur ne doit pas **être** porteur d'une hernie capable de provoquer des symptômes susceptibles d'entraîner une incapacité.
  ([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 3602943)

- Furthermore, such projects usually involved contractual arrangements of considerable complexity and **might** require lengthy negotiations.
  En outre, ces projets donnaient généralement lieu à la signature de contrats extrêmement complexes qui pouvait **être** précédée de longues négociations.
  ([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 2347353)

## si

Used about 1 626 times in the texts (literary ≈ 11 · biblical ≈ 16 · parliamentary ≈ 1 293 · legal and administrative ≈ 307).

- If you felt inclined we **might** go again one of these days.”
  **Si** vous voulez, nous recommencerons un jour ou l'autre cette partie-là ...
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2233)

- Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we **might** not perish?”
  Qui sait **si** Dieu ne reviendra pas et ne se repentira pas, et s’il ne renoncera pas à son ardente colère, en sorte que nous ne périssions point?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JON 3:9)

- This **might** be a possibility if China respected international intellectual property rights.
  Cette possibilité serait envisageable **si** la Chine respectait le droit international de la propriété intellectuelle.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1427326)

- The Commission has assessed whether the Alcoa tariff **might** correspond to one of these categories.
  La Commission a cherché à déterminer **si** le tarif Alcoa pouvait être classé dans l’une ou l’autre de ces catégories.
  ([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 2010164)

- “If this revolt be what I suppose, sire, you **might** will in vain.”
  «**Si** cette révolte est ce que je suppose, vous auriez beau vouloir, Sire!
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7829)

## More sentences

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

- Radishes **might** be more expensive than the carrots.
  Il est possible que les radis soient plus chers que les carottes.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#275675](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/275675) [\#925403](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/925403))

- You **might** want to think about this a little longer.
  Tu devrais réfléchir à ça un peu plus longtemps.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#8996279](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8996279) [\#9843500](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9843500))

- If it hadn't been for his help, she **might** have drowned.
  Sans son aide, elle aurait pu se noyer.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#30654](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/30654) [\#10207167](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10207167))

## 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/).

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