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Forms: pouvoir, pouvoirs. - I'm abusing my **power**. J'abuse de mon **pouvoir**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Fenrir and Fenrir · checked, community translation · [\#11759346](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11759346) [\#11759343](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11759343)) - **Power** itself is often a faction. Souvent le **pouvoir** lui-même est une faction. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18228) - Death and life are in the **power** of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit. La mort et la vie sont au **pouvoir** de la langue; Quiconque l’aime en mangera les fruits. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 18:21) - As we all know, information in itself is **power**. Nous le savons tous, information est synonyme de **pouvoir**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1734914) - **Powers** and duties of authorising officer **Pouvoirs** et fonctions de l'ordonnateur ([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 4943570) ## puissance Used about 40 877 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 40 · literary ≈ 9 · biblical ≈ 120 · parliamentary ≈ 2 367 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 551 · UN documents ≈ 29 790). Forms: puissance, puissances. - I need his **power**. J'ai besoin de sa **puissance**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and ofuro · checked, community translation · [\#249980](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/249980) [\#763913](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/763913)) - From the proper employment of forces results public **power**. Du bon emploi des forces résulte la **puissance** publique. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18280) - Behold, God is exalted in his **power**. Who is a teacher like him? Dieu est grand par sa **puissance**; Qui saurait enseigner comme lui? ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 36:22) - Sixty years ago, Nazi **powers** were jointly defeated by nations of Europe. Il y a soixante ans, les **puissances** nazies ont été vaincues par les nations d’Europe. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 676807) - For a **power** handling capacity not exceeding 20 W pour une **puissance** n'excédant pas 20 W ([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 5283258) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Wisdom does not prevail over **power**. La sagesse ne remplace pas la force. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sabretou and colique · checked, community translation · [\#2570661](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2570661) [\#8654485](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8654485)) - The **power** plant was mothballed because of its outdated technology. La centrale a été mise au rancart à cause de sa technologie dépassée. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2112220](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2112220) [\#2112312](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2112312)) - It was the great lung-**power** of Caruso that made him a great singer. C'était la grande capacité pulmonaire de Caruso qui en a fait un grand chanteur. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_Benedict\_1921 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#847209](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/847209) [\#1035605](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1035605)) ## 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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