ability — English to French

How English ability is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

What it means: ability in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: abilities (5 352), ability (54 418). By style: everyday 129 · literary 1 · biblical 7 · parliamentary 3 852 · legal and administrative 5 521 · UN documents 50 260.

capacité

Used about 25 084 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 70 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 006 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 588 · UN documents ≈ 20 418). Forms: capacité, capacités.

• Yanni doubts his abilities.

  Yanni doute de ses capacités.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · #10076116 #11958198

• To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.

  Il donna cinq talents à l’un, deux à l’autre, et un au troisième, à chacun selon sa capacité, et il partit.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 25:15

• It has demonstrated its ability to do so in the past.

  Elle a prouvé sa capacité à le faire par le passé.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1015706

• The ability to control engine power output;

  la capacité de contrôler la puissance fournie par le moteur;

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 5484862

• It stimulates the development of the abilities of individuals.

  Favoriser le développement des capacité individuelles;

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 13706057

aptitudes

Used about 11 125 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 201 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 013 · UN documents ≈ 8 900). Forms: aptitude, aptitudes.

• I believe in my abilities.

  Je crois en mes aptitudes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kerbear407 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1987940 #3432458

• Whether his abilities, which were not up to coping with energy issues, will be adequate for the tax portfolio remains to be seen.

  Il reste à voir si ses aptitudes, qui n’ont pu répondre aux exigences du portefeuille de l’énergie, seront adaptées à celui de la fiscalité.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 624714

• Ability to raise capital

  Aptitude à mobiliser des capitaux

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 705478

• Some journalists must sit for an examination to prove their ability.

  Certains journalistes doivent passer un examen d ' aptitude.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 1547385

• I believe in my abilities.

  J'ai foi en mes aptitudes.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by kerbear407 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1987940 #3432459

compétences

Used about 2 529 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 201 · legal and administrative ≈ 230 · UN documents ≈ 2 094).

• Don't underestimate your abilities. That's your boss' job.

  Ne sous-estime pas tes compétences. Ça, c'est le boulot de ton chef.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · #6218376 #11145700

• They have improved their language abilities and intercultural skills.

  Ils acquièrent de meilleures compétences linguistiques et des compétences interculturelles.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1292198

• a check of the private and professional integrity and of the relevant abilities of the dealer or broker concerned.

  un contrôle de l'honorabilité professionnelle et privée et des compétences pertinentes de l'armurier ou du courtier concerné.

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 4230364

• Core competences are those abilities which give the firm a competitive advantage and facilitate the realization of value.

  Les compétences de base sont celles qui donnent à l ' entreprise un avantage compétitif et contribuent à la création de la valeur.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 472520

• You can learn new abilities as you progress through the game.

  Vous pouvez acquérir de nouvelles compétences à mesure que vous progressez dans le jeu.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sabretou and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #6167796 #6615930

More sentences

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

• I'll help you within the limits of my ability.

  Je vous aiderai dans la mesure de mes possibilités.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #250140 #538224

• He is a man of great ability.

  C'est un homme de grand talent.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #292101 #15380

• He overestimated his ability.

  Il a surestimé son habilité.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and weboide · checked, community translation · #6477593 #6477686

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