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# aurait — French to English

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: aurait (121 469). By style: everyday 671 · literary 56 · biblical 38 · parliamentary 11 448 · legal and administrative 14 396 · UN documents 94 860.

## could

Used about 10 665 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 126 · literary ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 431 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 200 · UN documents ≈ 7 905).

- On **aurait** pu t'aider.
  We **could**'ve helped you.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3914873](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3914873) [\#14012967](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14012967))

- Mais, qui **aurait** pu le prévoir!
  But who **could** have foretold the result?
  ([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 242)

- Il **aurait** pu débuter déjà depuis 2002.
  It **could** have started as early as 2002.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 506303)

- Deuxièmement, CWP n’avait apparemment pas prévu de phase pilote, qui **aurait** pu indiquer clairement si l’installation présentait des problèmes.
  Second, CWP obviously did not incorporate in its planning a pilot phase that **could** show clearly whether there were any problems with the installation.
  ([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 582547)

- Le requérant **aurait** pu certes faire appel de cette décision auprès de la cour administrative d &apos; appel de Paris.
  The complainant **could** doubtless have appealed this decision before the Paris Administrative Court.
  ([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 17902933)

## More sentences

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

- Tom **aurait** dû faire les choses différemment.
  Tom should have done things differently.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by RoiOfTheSuisse and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1092931](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1092931) [\#1908015](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1908015))

- Pourquoi y **aurait**-il quelqu'un d'autre ici ?
  Why anyone else would be here?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by always and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11196317](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11196317) [\#12482118](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12482118))

- Ça ne m'**aurait** pas inquiété.
  I wouldn't have worried about that.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by qdii and CK · checked, community translation · [\#249542](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/249542) [\#632821](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/632821))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/).

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