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# permet — French to English

How French *permet* 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: permet (83 581), permets (1 316). By style: everyday 112 · literary 6 · biblical 21 · parliamentary 7 869 · legal and administrative 9 946 · UN documents 66 943.

## allow

Used about 11 907 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 47 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 230 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 654 · UN documents ≈ 6 973). Forms: allow, allows. Meaning: [allow in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/allow/).

- Je ne le **permets** pas.
  I don't **allow** it.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#1157050](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1157050) [\#1157043](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1157043))

- Un autre, d’entre les disciples, lui dit: Seigneur, **permets**-moi d’aller d’abord ensevelir mon père.
  Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, **allow** me first to go and bury my father.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 8:21)

- En ce qui concerne le vote, notre règlement **permet** de le reporter.
  As far as the vote is concerned, our rules **allow** for it to be postponed.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 744392)

- Chaque lien **permet** la mise en relation d’au moins deux signalements.
  Each link **allows** for the establishment of a relationship between at least two alerts.
  ([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 2778187)

- Elle **permet** en outre de dégager une unité de vues au niveau international.
  Importantly, it **allows** for a common international understanding.
  ([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 17271182)

## like

Used about 7 997 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 820 · legal and administrative ≈ 203 · UN documents ≈ 6 973). Meaning: [like in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/like/).

- Le rire, c'est comme un essuie-glace. Il n'arrête pas la pluie, mais il **permet** d'avancer.
  Laughter is **like** a windshield wiper. It can't stop the rain, but it lets you move ahead.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and Aria · checked, community translation · [\#4954119](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4954119) [\#4939457](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4939457))

- Mais je me **permets** également de souligner deux ou trois points.
  But I too should **like** to highlight two or three points.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 163237)

- En outre, je me **permets** de rappeler aux autorités belges que la récupération de toute aide mise à exécution en contravention de cette clause pourrait être exigée auprès de son bénéficiaire aux termes de l'article 14 dudit règlement.»
  Furthermore, I would **like** to remind the Belgian authorities that the recovery of all aid implemented in contravention of this clause, would have to be charged to its beneficiary under the terms of Article 14 of said regulation’.
  ([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 1692668)

- Comme suite à notre entretien du 12 mai 1997, je me **permets** de réaffirmer ce qui suit :
  Further to our conversation of 12 May 1997, I should **like** to reaffirm the following:
  ([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 4227523)

- Ces déplacements sont essentiels, je me **permets** de le souligner une fois encore.
  That is very important. I would **like** to reiterate as well as underline this.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 139901)

## let

Used about 4 295 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 17 · biblical ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 82 · UN documents ≈ 4 184). Meaning: [let in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/let/).

- **Permets**-moi de reformuler.
  **Let** me rephrase it.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#277910](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/277910) [\#1064711](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1064711))

- La femme dit: **Permets** que ta servante dise un mot à mon seigneur le roi. Et il dit: Parle!
  Then the woman said, “Please **let** your servant speak a word to my lord the king.” He said, “Say on.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2SA 14:12)

- Je me **permets** de prendre au hasard quelques propositions.
  **Let** me pick out a number of proposals.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 358638)

- Je me **permets** de lui rappeler que le respect doit être réciproque.
  **Let** me remind him that respect is a two-way street.
  ([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 20195009)

- **Permets**-moi de te rappeler !
  **Let** me call you back.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1860636](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1860636) [\#2053773](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2053773))

## More sentences

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

- Mon bonus ne **permet** même pas de couvrir tous les paiements d'emprunts que je dois effectuer.
  My bonus doesn't come close to covering all the loan payments I have to make.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#29386](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/29386) [\#482863](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/482863))

- Cette porte **permet** d'accéder au jardin.
  This door gives access to the garden.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#12056132](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12056132) [\#180237](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/180237))

- Cette application vous **permet** d'investir en bourse.
  This application lets you invest in the stock market.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#12927141](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12927141) [\#12927136](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12927136))

## 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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