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Elle a un fort **potentiel**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sbamsbamsbam · checked, community translation · [\#2628155](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2628155) [\#4092925](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4092925)) - Moreover, we want to enhance the **potential** of the forum. De plus, nous voulons renforcer le **potentiel** de ce forum. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 215219) - Global warming **potentials** **Potentiels** de réchauffement planétaire ([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 5320718) - GASES TO CLIMATE CHANGE: GLOBAL WARMING **POTENTIALS** CLIMATIQUES : **POTENTIELS** DE RECHAUFFEMENT DU GLOBE ([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 229861) - He is full of **potential**. Il a beaucoup de **potentiel**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2628154](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2628154) [\#3138737](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3138737)) ## possibilités Used about 19 253 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 868 · legal and administrative ≈ 691 · UN documents ≈ 17 695). - We must not overestimate its **potential**. Il ne faut pas surestimer ses **possibilités**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1904055) - Conclusions, recommendations, limitations, and improvement **potentials**. les conclusions, recommandations, restrictions et **possibilités** d'amélioration. ([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 2841041) - Analysis of mitigation **potentials** and III. ANALYSE DES **POSSIBILITÉS** D ' ATTÉNUATION ET DES ([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 17505144) - It is important to take into account local and regional needs, **potentials** and characteristics. Il est important de tenir compte des **possibilités**, des caractéristiques et des besoins à l'échelle locale et régionale. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1188921) - Locating, quantifying and optimising the **potentials** for energy recovery localisation, quantification et optimisation des **possibilités** de récupération de l'énergie; ([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 3158101) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - You always have the right to refuse treatment, however, I must explain the **potential** consequences if that will be your choice. Vous avez toujours le droit de refuser tout traitement, cependant, je dois vous informer des conséquences potentielles de cette décision. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by NurseMeeks and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#9850969](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9850969) [\#9983062](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9983062)) - Everyone has within themselves the **potential** to be a Buddha. Chacun possède en soi la capacité de devenir un bouddha. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#12827204](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12827204) [\#12827515](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12827515)) - You always have the right to refuse treatment, however, I must explain the **potential** consequences if that will be your choice. Tu peux toujours refuser un traitement, cependant, je dois t'expliquer les conséquences potentielles si c'est ton choix. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by NurseMeeks and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#9850969](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9850969) [\#9983063](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9983063)) ## 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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