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# pouvant — French to English

How French *pouvant* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: pouvant (59 417). By style: everyday 7 · literary 6 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 1 798 · legal and administrative 12 503 · UN documents 45 098.

## capable

Used about 6 559 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 37 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 823 · UN documents ≈ 4 698). Meaning: [capable in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/capable/).

- L'expérience passée nous montre que les accidents entraînent dans leur sillage de lourdes pertes humaines et environnementales, les procédures visant à établir les responsabilités **pouvant** durer plusieurs années.
  Past experience shows that huge human and environmental losses remain in the wake of accidents, with the procedures for establishing liability **capable** of lasting for years on end.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1390231)

- Intégrateur **pouvant** intégrer la ligne de base commune ou intégrer de vallée à vallée
  Integrator **capable** of setting the integration to common baseline or valley-to-valley
  ([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 4587134)

- 1. Ne **pouvant** pas équilibrer des rotors/ensembles d &apos; une masse supérieure à 3 kg;
  1. Not **capable** of balancing rotors/assemblies having a mass greater than 3 kg;
  ([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 23207204)

- Appareils récepteurs de radiodiffusion **pouvant** fonctionner sans source d'énergie extérieure
  Radio-broadcast receivers **capable** of operating without an external source of power
  ([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 3013689)

- a) Modifications permettant d &apos; augmenter le nombre de dimensions de pneumatiques **pouvant** être montées sur le véhicule;
  (a) Those allowing to increase the number of tyre sizes **capable** to be mounted on the vehicle;
  ([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 29848548)

## eligible

Used about 3 935 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 75 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 042 · UN documents ≈ 2 819). Meaning: [eligible in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/eligible/).

- Une telle méthode doit prendre appui sur l'adoption de définitions précises des catégories de biens et services **pouvant** prétendre aux taux réduits.
  This type of method should be based on adopting precise definitions of categories of goods and services **eligible** for reduced rates.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1885016)

- Dont au minimum pour les régions **pouvant** bénéficier de l'objectif «Convergence»
  Of which minimum for regions **eligible** under the Convergence Objective
  ([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 1387121)

- Appui destiné à permettre à deux représentants de chaque Partie **pouvant** prétendre à cette forme d &apos; aide de participer aux sessions organisées
  Support for two delegates from each **eligible** Party to participate in organized sessions
  ([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 24856310)

- En outre, je voudrais signaler que, conformément à la législation polonaise, un référendum n'est valable que si le taux de participation est supérieur à 30 % des personnes **pouvant** voter.
  In addition to this, I would like to point out that, according to Polish legislation, a referendum is only valid if the turnout is over 30% of those **eligible** to vote.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 937226)

- Aux fins du régime, l'annexe I de la résolution classe le territoire de cet État dans la catégorie des territoires **pouvant** bénéficier des mesures d'incitation.
  For the purpose of the Scheme, Annex I to the Resolution classifies the State areas **eligible** for incentives.
  ([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 3180648)

## More sentences

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

- Toute personne ne **pouvant** envisager qu'une seule manière d'orthographier un mot manque visiblement d'imagination.
  Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by altebrilas and CK · checked, community translation · [\#667954](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/667954) [\#2019851](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2019851))

- Je cherche quelqu'un **pouvant** parler portugais.
  I'm looking for someone who can speak Portuguese.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2428044](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2428044) [\#7448888](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7448888))

- Il se peut que tu sois la seule **pouvant** faire ça.
  You might be the only one who can do that.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5904819](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5904819) [\#7448521](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7448521))

## Grammar

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