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# potentiel — French to English

How French *potentiel* 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: potentiel (36 408), potentiels (22 422). By style: everyday 27 · parliamentary 5 442 · legal and administrative 9 732 · UN documents 43 629.

## potential

Used about 49 423 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 23 · parliamentary ≈ 4 478 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 110 · UN documents ≈ 36 812). Meaning: [potential in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/potential/).

- Elle a un fort **potentiel**.
  She is full of **potential**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sbamsbamsbam and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2628155](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2628155) [\#4092925](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4092925))

- Ne gâchons pas ce **potentiel** pro-européen!
  Let us not waste this pro-European **potential**!
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 854954)

- Offre un plus grand **potentiel** d’économie d’énergie
  Increased energy saving **potential**
  ([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 2794256)

- Le **potentiel** de croissance de l &apos; Afrique
  Africa &apos; s growth **potential**
  ([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 29599528)

- Il a beaucoup de **potentiel**.
  He is full of **potential**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2628154](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2628154) [\#3138737](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3138737))

## More sentences

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

- Commence à reconnaître ton **potentiel**.
  Start to recognize yourself.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10838505](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10838505) [\#11756901](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11756901))

- L'entreprise a invité ses clients **potentiels** à la fête.
  The company invited their prospective customers to the party.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CM · checked, community translation · [\#49067](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/49067) [\#8648290](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8648290))

- Vous devez être attentif aux **potentiels** dangers.
  You should be alert to the possible dangers.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sixtynine and CK · checked, community translation · [\#20088](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/20088) [\#1873760](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1873760))

## 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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