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He **could** help us. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CH · checked, community translation · [\#8480654](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8480654) [\#12016810](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12016810)) - --La portière m'a dit qu'il ne **pourrait** pas venir aujourd'hui. “The portress told me that he **could** not come to-day.” ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5700) - Si cet homme ne venait pas de Dieu, il ne **pourrait** rien faire. If this man were not from God, he **could** do nothing.” ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 9:33) - Le commissaire **pourrait**-il commenter ce point? **Could** the Commissioner comment on that? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1138234) - Cette date **pourrait** être revue en cas de besoin. This date **could** be reviewed if need be. ([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 5425166) ## might Used about 47 027 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 292 · literary ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 3 548 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 476 · UN documents ≈ 41 698). Meaning: [might in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/might/). - Cela **pourrait** m’intéresser. I **might** be interested. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Orange and Orange · checked, community translation · [\#12225806](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12225806) [\#12225800](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12225800)) - —-Non, Axel, non! le grand air **pourrait** te faire du mal. "No, Axel; the open air **might** be bad for you." ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2538) - Et une union fière de son identité, **pourrait**-on ajouter? A very proud one, I **might** add? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1510715) - **pourrait** nuire à la concurrence loyale entre fournisseurs; **might** prejudice fair competition between suppliers; ([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 251500) - Un comité consultatif **pourrait** être désigné pour choisir les lauréats. An advisory committee **might** be appointed for the selection of the nominees. ([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 1979068) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Elle ne **pourrait** le convaincre d'accepter le pot-de-vin. She couldn't convince him to accept the bribe. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#887046](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/887046) [\#1385473](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1385473)) - Yanni **pourrait** être là-bas. Yanni would be there. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by always and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#9961827](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9961827) [\#12476836](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12476836)) - Il se peut que je connaisse quelqu'un qui **pourrait** vous aider. I may know someone who can help you. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Wakano and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2387105](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2387105) [\#2965261](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2965261)) ## 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 Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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