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# puissent — French to English

How French *puissent* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: puissent (80 393). By style: everyday 37 · literary 1 · biblical 6 · parliamentary 7 560 · legal and administrative 7 042 · UN documents 65 747.

## ensure

Used about 12 930 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 945 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 027 · UN documents ≈ 10 958). Meaning: [ensure in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/ensure/).

- Comment nous assurons-nous que les victimes **puissent** vraiment reconstruire une nouvelle vie?
  How do we **ensure** that victims really can build a new life?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1452512)

- La contrepartie centrale veille à ce que des audits spéciaux **puissent** être effectués à brève échéance si les événements l’exigent.
  The CCP shall **ensure** that special audits may be performed on an event-driven basis at short notice.
  ([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 2881906)

- 12. Pour que les entreprises privées **puissent** réaliser des bénéfices raisonnables :
  12. To **ensure** reasonable profits for private companies:
  ([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 7358088)

- La solution la plus simple, c'est de faire en sorte que ces substances dangereuses ne **puissent** pas se retrouver dans notre eau.
  The simplest solution is to **ensure** that these hazardous substances cannot get into our water in the first place.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1094225)

- Les États membres veillent à ce que les autorités nationales de concurrence **puissent** décider d'accéder ou non à la demande présentée en vertu du paragraphe 1.
  Member States shall **ensure** that national competition authorities have discretion whether or not to grant the request pursuant to paragraph 1.
  ([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 4858493)

## so

Used about 9 330 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 733 · legal and administrative ≈ 734 · UN documents ≈ 6 849). Meaning: [so in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/so/).

- Je travaille pour que mes enfants **puissent** manger.
  I work **so** that my children can eat.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Delapouite and kaiperkins271 · checked, community translation · [\#6861560](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6861560) [\#6849872](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6849872))

- Quelque nombreuses que **puissent** être dans le monde les diverses langues, il n’en est aucune qui ne soit une langue intelligible;
  There are, it may be, **so** many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them is without meaning.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 14:10)

- Il est très utile aux présidences entrantes d’avoir un rôle à jouer pour qu’elles **puissent** lier tous ces dossiers entre eux.
  It is very helpful to incoming presidencies to have a role to play **so** that they can interlink all the issues.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 550039)

- Agrandir et bien séparer les boutons de l’écran tactile, pour que les personnes atteintes de tremblement **puissent** les presser.
  Making touch screen buttons bigger and well separated **so** that persons with tremor can press them.
  ([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 4865423)

- Le régime iraquien doit permettre un accès illimité aux inspecteurs de l &apos; ONU afin qu &apos; ils **puissent** reprendre leur travail.
  The Iraqi regime must allow unrestricted access to United Nations inspectors **so** that they can resume their work.
  ([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 8728333)

## able

Used about 6 576 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 733 · legal and administrative ≈ 734 · UN documents ≈ 4 109). Meaning: [able in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/able/).

- D’ailleurs, il y a entre nous et vous un grand abîme, afin que ceux qui voudraient passer d’ici vers vous, ou de là vers nous, ne **puissent** le faire.
  Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not **able**, and that no one may cross over from there to us.’
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 16:26)

- Il est temps que les pays de l'Union européenne **puissent** déterminer leur propre politique en matière d'emploi.
  I believe that it is time that the countries were **able** to set their own employment policy.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1263329)

- Il pourrait être souhaitable, à l'avenir, que les pays tiers **puissent** également participer au système d'interconnexion des registres.
  It could be desirable for third countries to be **able**, in the future, to participate in the system of interconnection of registers.
  ([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 2554852)

- Il est capital d &apos; améliorer la coordination pour que les réfugiés **puissent** rentrer dans leur pays d &apos; origine.
  Improved coordination was essential if the refugees were to be **able** to return to their country of origin.
  ([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 847257)

- Toutefois, la libre circulation est une condition indispensable pour que les personnes **puissent** se rencontrer par-delà les frontières nationales.
  However, free movement is a prerequisite for people to be **able** to meet across national boundaries.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1288619)

## More sentences

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

- Je ne pense pas qu'elles **puissent** le faire.
  I don't believe they can do it.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and mailohilohi · checked, community translation · [\#6110525](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6110525) [\#11716518](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11716518))

- Je souhaite vraiment que Tom et Mary **puissent** se conduire correctement.
  I really wish Tom and Mary would behave themselves.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tras and CT · checked, community translation · [\#6507990](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6507990) [\#7242692](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7242692))

- Je pense que Tom a peur que les gens **puissent** se moquer de lui.
  I think that Tom is afraid people might laugh at him.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and CK · checked, community translation · [\#7506025](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7506025) [\#13592694](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13592694))

## Grammar

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