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# capacité — French to English

How French *capacité* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations 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: capacité (151 922), capacités (252 530). By style: everyday 117 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 10 671 · legal and administrative 39 086 · UN documents 354 573.

## capacity

Used about 304 436 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 5 113 · legal and administrative ≈ 33 386 · UN documents ≈ 265 930). Forms: capacities, capacity. Meaning: [capacity in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/capacity/).

- Il n'a pas la **capacité** d'être président.
  He doesn't have the **capacity** to be president.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#284836](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/284836) [\#1390138](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1390138))

- Nous devons nous efforcer de créer des **capacités**.
  We must endeavour to create **capacities**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 846385)

- l'élimination des **capacités** obsolètes.
  Elimination of outdated **capacity**.
  ([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 4960585)

- MINUL - utilisation de la **capacité** aérienne en pourcentage
  **Capacity** utilization of air assets by UNMIL
  ([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 13096533)

- La **capacité** à produire des paroles nouvelles est un attribut de tout langage naturel.
  The **capacity** to produce novel utterances is an attribute of every natural language.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2009637](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2009637) [\#2009649](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2009649))

## ability

Used about 40 628 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 63 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 001 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 629 · UN documents ≈ 36 935). Meaning: [ability in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ability/).

- L'homme a la **capacité** de parler.
  Man has the **ability** to speak.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and CK · checked, community translation · [\#270326](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/270326) [\#845716](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/845716))

- Il donna cinq talents à l’un, deux à l’autre, et un au troisième, à chacun selon sa **capacité**, et il partit.
  To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his own **ability**. Then he went on his journey.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 25:15)

- La légitimation démocratique de l'Union doit être à l'avenant de sa **capacité** d'action.
  The greater the Union's **ability** to act, the greater the democratic legitimacy of its actions must be.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1935425)

- La société faisant partie d'un plus grand groupe, sa **capacité** à mobiliser des capitaux n'a pas été sensiblement affectée.
  As part of a larger group, the **ability** of the company concerned to raise capital was not seriously affected.
  ([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 526973)

- Article 14: Mesures appropriées pour assurer aux femmes rurales la **capacité**
  Article 14: Measures needed to ensure rural women the **ability** to participate
  ([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 24213173)

## building

Used about 3 805 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 111 · UN documents ≈ 3 693). Meaning: [building in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/building/).

- En conclusion, j’appelle les États membres à investir de l’argent provenant des Fonds structurels dans la création de **capacités** de recherche et de développement au niveau national.
  In conclusion, I call on the Member States to invest money from the Structural Funds in **building** research and development capabilities in their countries.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 823562)

- Ils contribueront à renforcer les **capacités** nationales, régionales et internationales en matière de promotion de la démocratie et de l &apos; état de droit.
  The projects will contribute to the **building** of national, regional and global capacities for democracy and the rule of the law.
  ([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 16483575)

## More sentences

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

- Ne t'inquiète pas ! Même si je bois, ça n'affecte pas ma **capacité** à conduire.
  Don't worry! Even if I drink, it doesn't have an effect on my driving.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#418386](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/418386) [\#1125501](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1125501))

- Le design de la voiture a une grande **capacité** d'adaptation.
  The car's design is adaptive.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by always and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11958939](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11958939) [\#12494945](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12494945))

- Comment calcule-t-on la **capacité** d'un condensateur ?
  How does one calculate the capacitance of a capacitor?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by MUIRIEL and wma · checked, community translation · [\#530027](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/530027) [\#454612](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/454612))

## Grammar

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