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# possible — French to English

How French *possible* 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: possible (270 082), possibles (40 370). By style: everyday 751 · literary 57 · biblical 19 · parliamentary 31 206 · legal and administrative 32 594 · UN documents 245 825.

## possible

Used about 186 971 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 611 · literary ≈ 49 · biblical ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 20 154 · legal and administrative ≈ 22 748 · UN documents ≈ 143 398). Meaning: [possible in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/possible/).

- Ce n'est pas **possible**.
  That's not **possible**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#954332](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/954332) [\#1108644](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1108644))

- --Oui, c'est **possible**.
  “But it is **possible**.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1900)

- Jésus répondit: Ce qui est impossible aux hommes est **possible** à Dieu.
  But he said, “The things which are impossible with men are **possible** with God.”
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 18:27)

- Un meilleur service aurait, néanmoins, été **possible**.
  A better service could have been **possible**, though.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1405045)

- Les utilisations **possibles** des voies ferrées.
  The **possible** uses of railways.
  ([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 2198457)

## More sentences

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

- Tom a crié aussi fort que **possible**.
  Tom screamed at the top of his lungs.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mookeee and CK · checked, community translation · [\#1024201](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1024201) [\#1091934](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1091934))

- Je ferai tout mon **possible**.
  I'll do whatever I can.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by TRANG and CK · checked, community translation · [\#4890439](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4890439) [\#335459](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/335459))

- En général, je ne prends pas de petit déjeuner parce que je préfère dormir aussi longtemps que **possible**.
  I don't usually eat breakfast because I'd rather sleep as late as I can.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tras and CK · checked, community translation · [\#7544676](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7544676) [\#7562370](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7562370))

## 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/).

## About these examples

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