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# permit — English to French

How English *permit* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: permit (43 547), permits (20 670). By style: everyday 35 · literary 16 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 2 336 · legal and administrative 9 802 · UN documents 52 023.

## permet

Used about 36 937 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 14 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 657 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 288 · UN documents ≈ 31 972). Forms: permet, permis.

- Ziri did not **permit** it.
  Ziri ne l'a pas **permis**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#13239675](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13239675) [\#13239663](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13239663))

- My work will not **permit** it.
  L'ouvrage ne le **permet** pas.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3389)

- This will we do, if God **permits**.
  C’est ce que nous ferons, si Dieu le **permet**.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · HEB 6:3)

- Unfortunately, time does not **permit** me to do so.
  Malheureusement, le temps qui m’est imparti ne me le **permet** pas.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 762223)

- Building or other **permits**
  **permis** de bâtir ou autres
  ([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 3586688)

## séjour

Used about 1 315 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 365 · legal and administrative ≈ 408 · UN documents ≈ 542).

- Then there are the scandalous taxes on renewal of residence **permits**.
  Quant aux taxes qui frappent le renouvellement des permis de **séjour**, c'est tout simplement scandaleux !
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 101327)

- A residence **permit** issued to school pupils shall be issued for a period of no more than one year.
  Un titre de **séjour** n’est délivré aux élèves que pour une durée maximale d’un an.
  ([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 432019)

- Residence **permits** on humanitarian grounds had been granted to 13 individuals in 2000, 353 in 2001, 23 in 2002, 106 in 2003 and 219 in 2004.
  Des autorisations de **séjour** pour raisons humanitaires ont été accordées à 13 personnes en 2000, à 353 en 2001, à 23 en 2002, à 106 en 2003, et à 219 en 2004.
  ([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 13496441)

- This does not seem to fit in with the Joint Action concerning a uniform format for residence **permits**.
  Cela ne semble pas être en accord avec l'action commune relative à un modèle uniforme de permis de **séjour**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 57356)

- If this Member State decides to maintain the validity of the residence **permit** or visa, the alert shall be deleted.
  Si l'État membre décide de maintenir la validité du titre de **séjour** ou du visa, le signalement est effacé.
  ([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 4197781)

## More sentences

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

- Why do you **permit** it?
  Pourquoi le tolérez-vous ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by \_undertoad and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2270565](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2270565) [\#3245322](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3245322))

- I'll never **permit** you to do that.
  Je ne te permettrai jamais de faire ça.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#6254985](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6254985) [\#7990532](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7990532))

- Will you **permit** me to go there?
  Me permettrez-vous d'y aller?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and melospawn · checked, community translation · [\#50947](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/50947) [\#792182](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/792182))

## 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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