able — English to French

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

What it means: able in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: able (141 822), ables (2). By style: everyday 1 094 · literary 36 · biblical 157 · parliamentary 30 902 · legal and administrative 14 254 · UN documents 95 381.

pu

Used about 26 024 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 205 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 10 · parliamentary ≈ 3 219 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 164 · UN documents ≈ 21 412).

• Were you able to sit down?

  As-tu pu t'asseoir ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #5785899 #6380884

• Happily for Jean Valjean that he had been able to weep.

  Ce fut un bonheur pour Jean Valjean d'avoir pu pleurer.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30067

• saying, ‘This man began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’

  en disant: Cet homme a commencé à bâtir, et il n’a pu achever?

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 14:30

• Parliament has not been able to make up its mind to decisively reject the use of Galileo for military purposes.

  Le Parlement européen n'a pas pu se résoudre à opposer un refus clair à l'utilisation militaire de Galileo.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 291947

• On this basis, the airport was able to forecast the revenue generated by the Agreement with Ryanair.

  L’aéroport a pu prévoir sur cette base les recettes qui seraient générées par l’accord Ryanair.

  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 2226108

pouvoir

Used about 17 647 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 137 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 5 150 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 618 · UN documents ≈ 9 733).

• I'm likely to be able to do that.

  Je suis susceptible de pouvoir le faire.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and GB3 · checked, community translation · #6706302 #6707177

• We regret that we are not able to offer to our readers this remarkable piece.

  Nous regrettons de ne pouvoir offrir à nos lecteurs ce morceau remarquable.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5102

• Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

  Revêtez-vous de toutes les armes de Dieu, afin de pouvoir tenir ferme contre les ruses du diable.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EPH 6:11

• As it is not a ban, we should be able to vote on it.

  Comme il ne s’agit pas d’une interdiction, nous devrions pouvoir voter sur cet amendement.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 587987

• In the latter case the contracting authority should always be able to justify the choice.

  Le pouvoir adjudicateur doit dans ce dernier cas toujours être en mesure de justifier son choix.

  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 708410

mesure

Used about 13 390 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 46 · parliamentary ≈ 4 507 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 945 · UN documents ≈ 3 893).

• This single mother works two jobs just to be able to pay the rent and feed her children.

  Cette mère célibataire a deux emplois juste pour être en mesure de payer le loyer et nourrir ses enfants.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · #4042295 #4043717

• Characteristically, I am not able to do that.

  Je ne suis, comme à l'accoutumée, pas en mesure de le faire.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 265877

• Household will not be able to repay debt

  Le ménage ne sera pas en mesure de rembourser la dette

  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 1212149

• They should also ensure that children are able to communicate and participate in discussions outside the meeting.

  Ils doivent aussi veiller à ce que les enfants soient en mesure de communiquer et de participer aux discussions en dehors de la réunion.

  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 29491866

• The defense lawyer was confident that he would be able to answer the prosecutor's arguments in his rebuttal.

  L'avocat de la défense était sûr qu'il serait en mesure de répondre aux arguments du procureur dans sa réfutation.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #1969 #8976689

More sentences

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

• He was able to admit when he was wrong.

  Il était capable d'admettre qu'il avait tort.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Miktsoanit and Odhran_Gwydhenn · checked, community translation · #12272524 #12270183

• Is Tom able to eat?

  Est-ce que Tom est capable de manger ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and pititnatole · checked, community translation · #4902765 #5487265

• Are you able to play organ?

  Pouvez-vous jouer de l'orgue ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sicerabibax and fucongcong · checked, community translation · #4841310 #10840

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