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# peut — French to English

How French *peut* 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: peut (730 180). By style: everyday 4 698 · literary 199 · biblical 225 · parliamentary 72 720 · legal and administrative 128 702 · UN documents 523 636.

## cannot

Used about 48 719 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 196 · literary ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 10 605 · legal and administrative ≈ 16 088 · UN documents ≈ 21 818).

- Cette histoire ne **peut** être vraie.
  The story **cannot** be true.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#43308](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/43308) [\#911942](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/911942))

- On ne **peut** pas aller les voir sans enfoncer dans la terre.
  You **cannot** go to see them without sinking into the earth.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16168)

- Mais on ne **peut** changer cela maintenant.
  However, it **cannot** be changed now.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1821736)

- Dans ses utilisations générales, il ne **peut** être remplacé par de quelconques produits de substitution.
  In its general uses, it **cannot** be replaced by any substitutes.
  ([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 2523805)

- 97. Entre deux jours de travail les salariés ont droit à un repos qui ne **peut** être inférieur à douze heures consécutives.
  Between two working days, the employees are entitled to rest that **cannot** be less than 12 consecutive hours.
  ([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 27956521)

## More sentences

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

- **Peut**-être que je vais aller nager après l'école.
  Maybe I'll go swimming after school.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5591991](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5591991) [\#5592740](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5592740))

- L'argent ne **peut** pas tout acheter.
  Money can't buy everything.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mervert1 and CM · checked, community translation · [\#1334072](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1334072) [\#4294114](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4294114))

- Il ne **peut** pas connaître la vérité.
  He can't know the truth.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by TRANG and CK · checked, community translation · [\#283885](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/283885) [\#330967](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/330967))

## 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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