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# permettre — French to English

How French *permettre* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 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: permettre (192 148). By style: everyday 142 · literary 3 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 13 281 · legal and administrative 23 222 · UN documents 155 495.

## enable

Used about 33 857 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 830 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 870 · UN documents ≈ 29 155). Meaning: [enable in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/enable/).

- Telle était cette longue artère que les trains parcouraient en sept jours, et qui allait **permettre** à l'honorable Phileas Fogg--il l'espérait du moins--de prendre, le 11, à New York, le paquebot de Liverpool.
  Such was the road to be traversed in seven days, which would **enable** Phileas Fogg—at least, so he hoped—to take the Atlantic steamer at New York on the 11th for Liverpool.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2153)

- Voilà un cas où, de manière temporaire, des compensations peuvent **permettre** de trouver une solution.
  This is a case where, temporarily, compensation may **enable** a solution to be found.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 299636)

- Un dispositif manuel doit **permettre** (au personnel de bord ou aux équipes de maintenance) de condamner une porte.
  A manually operated mechanical device shall be provided to **enable** (the train crew or maintenance staff) to lock a door out of service.
  ([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 2252911)

- Des crédits sont prévus pour **permettre** à l’Institut de fonctionner jusqu’à la fin de 1999.
  9. Funds have been authorized for the Institute to **enable** it to operate until the end of 1999.
  ([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 5643168)

- Copenhague doit ainsi **permettre** aux pays en développement d'évoluer vers des modèles sobres en carbone.
  Copenhagen must also **enable** developing countries to move in the direction of low-carbon models.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1289939)

## allow

Used about 21 147 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 21 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 4 150 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 257 · UN documents ≈ 9 718). Meaning: [allow in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/allow/).

- On ne peut pas **permettre** ça.
  We can't **allow** that.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1893924](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1893924) [\#7886987](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7886987))

- Il y avait là, dans la montagne, un grand troupeau de pourceaux qui paissaient. Et les démons supplièrent Jésus de leur **permettre** d’entrer dans ces pourceaux. Il le leur permit.
  Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he would **allow** them to enter into those. Then he allowed them.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 8:32)

- Puis-je me **permettre** de corriger encore une de vos paroles?
  **Allow** me to correct a few other words you said.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1936400)

- **permettre** l’inspection visuelle des volailles;
  **allow** visual inspection of the poultry;
  ([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 834112)

- En premier lieu, il doit **permettre** une modernisation de nos structures productives.
  First, it must **allow** for the modernization of our productive structures.
  ([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 780468)

## afford

Used about 12 663 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 109 · parliamentary ≈ 1 383 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 451 · UN documents ≈ 9 718). Meaning: [afford in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/afford/).

- Je ne peux me **permettre** un avocat.
  I can't **afford** a lawyer.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2303553](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2303553) [\#6915000](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6915000))

- Nous ne pouvons pas nous **permettre** d'ignorer ces questions.
  These are issues that we cannot **afford** to ignore.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1225714)

- Non, le ménage ne peut pas se le **permettre**
  No — household cannot **afford** it
  ([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 3245360)

- Nous ne pouvons nous **permettre** d &apos; y faire face seuls.
  We cannot **afford** to face them alone.
  ([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 23761552)

- Elle ne pouvait pas se le **permettre**.
  She couldn't **afford** it.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and patgfisher · checked, community translation · [\#2801479](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2801479) [\#2801443](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2801443))

## must

Used about 5 037 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 830 · legal and administrative ≈ 968 · UN documents ≈ 3 239). Meaning: [must in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/must/).

- Afin de **permettre** aux mères d'enfants en bas âge de reprendre le travail, nous devons construire suffisamment d'infrastructures d'accueil préscolaires.
  In order for mothers of young children to be able to return to work, we **must** build enough pre-school facilities.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1430019)

- Ces tests doivent **permettre** de vérifier que les caractéristiques techniques suivantes de l’IBNS sont satisfaisantes:
  These tests **must** make it possible to ascertain that the following technical characteristics of the IBNS are satisfactory:
  ([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 2460158)

- Les parties doivent faire preuve d &apos; initiative et de responsabilité, et admettre que des compromis difficiles sont nécessaires pour **permettre** aux communautés de coexister en paix.
  The parties **must** demonstrate responsible leadership and recognize that difficult compromises are necessary for the peaceful coexistence of the communities.
  ([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 23241203)

- Il faudra que l'UE se fixe clairement comme objectif, lorsque les prochaines négociations au sein de l'OMC débuteront, de **permettre** un tel contingent.
  When the next round of WTO negotiations begins, the EU **must** have the clear objective of bringing about such a quota.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1858881)

- Des données suffisantes doivent être fournies pour **permettre** une évaluation des éventuels effets néfastes d’un traitement à l’aide d’un produit phytopharmaceutique sur les cultures successives.
  Sufficient data **must** be reported to permit an evaluation of possible adverse effects of a treatment with the plant protection product on succeeding crops.
  ([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 2394622)

## More sentences

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

- Je ne peux pas vous le **permettre**.
  I can't let you.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1453391](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1453391) [\#1453727](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1453727))

- Une histoire raconte que si la pièce de monnaie est ronde c'est pour lui **permettre** de rouler d'un endroit à l'autre.
  According to one story, the money was round so that it could roll from place to place.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and papabear · checked, community translation · [\#67135](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/67135) [\#135847](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/135847))

- Désolé, je ne peux pas te **permettre** de rester ici.
  Sorry, I can't let you stay here.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and FlamingTofu · checked, community translation · [\#2042258](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2042258) [\#2042564](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2042564))

## 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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