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# possibility — English to French

How English *possibility* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: possibilities (21 221), possibility (72 613). By style: everyday 132 · literary 4 · parliamentary 8 928 · legal and administrative 10 534 · UN documents 74 236.

## possibilités

Used about 61 408 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 109 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 6 231 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 669 · UN documents ≈ 46 397). Forms: possibilité, possibilités.

- There are two **possibilities**.
  Il existe deux **possibilités**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#2399288](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2399288) [\#2398773](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2398773))

- The **possibility** of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect.
  La **possibilité** d'atteindre doit tourner en augmentation de respect.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26131)

- This opens up huge **possibilities**.
  Et les **possibilités** offertes sont grandes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 202495)

- The procedure allows for two **possibilities**:
  La procédure offre deux **possibilités**:
  ([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 844615)

- (b) The **possibility** of modifying the practice;
  b) La **possibilité** de modifier la pratique;
  ([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 6366475)

## More sentences

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

- I thought there was a **possibility** that Tom was going to break the contract.
  J'ai pensé qu'il était possible que Tom soit sur le point de rompre le contrat.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Sisyphe · checked, community translation · [\#1960900](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1960900) [\#2172185](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2172185))

- Don't discount that **possibility**.
  N'écarte pas cette éventualité.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#4497684](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4497684) [\#11246972](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11246972))

- Have you taken into consideration the **possibility** that you might be wrong?
  As-tu envisagé que tu puisses avoir tort ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Reletr and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#13308844](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13308844) [\#12014967](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12014967))

## 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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