allow — English to French

How English allow is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: allow in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: allow (117 535), allows (26 882). By style: everyday 249 · literary 19 · biblical 49 · parliamentary 18 419 · legal and administrative 22 430 · UN documents 103 251.

permettre

Used about 55 838 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 113 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 7 099 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 981 · UN documents ≈ 37 644). Forms: permet, permettre.

• I can't allow this.

  Je ne peux pas permettre ça.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #3408652 #7108987

• Now there was there a herd of many pigs feeding on the mountain, and they begged him that he would allow them to enter into those. Then he allowed them.

  Il y avait là, dans la montagne, un grand troupeau de pourceaux qui paissaient. Et les démons supplièrent Jésus de leur permettre d’entrer dans ces pourceaux. Il le leur permit.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 8:32

• We must not allow this to happen.

  Nous ne devons pas permettre que cela se produise.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1459972

• allow visual inspection of the ratites;

  permettre l’inspection visuelle des ratites;

  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 1582281

• Allows allocation of responsibility for the management of liabilities; and

  Permet l ' attribution de la responsabilité pour la gestion de ces charges; et

  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 23041650

moi

Used about 2 640 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 17 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 1 535 · UN documents ≈ 1 076).

• Allow me to explain.

  Permets-moi d'expliquer.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #3426422 #6462990

• "Well, admitting all your calculations to be quite correct, you must allow me to draw one rigid result therefrom."

  «Mon oncle, repris-je, je tiens pour exact tous vos calculs, mais permettez-moi d'en tirer une conséquence rigoureuse.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2153

• Allow me, and I also will speak. After I have spoken, mock on.

  Laissez-moi parler, je vous prie; Et, quand j’aurai parlé, tu pourras te moquer.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 21:3

• Allow me, in conclusion, to return to the substance of the matter.

  Permettez-moi, pour conclure, de revenir à l'essentiel.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1932238

• Before concluding, allow me to share with the Assembly some recent ICT developments in my country.

  Avant de terminer, permettez-moi de faire part à l ' Assemblée de l ' évolution récente des TIC dans mon pays.

  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 8549878

More sentences

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

• My father doesn't allow me to go out with Bill.

  Mon père ne m'autorise pas à sortir avec Bill.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and Aiji · checked, community translation · #319158 #134880

• I allow myself no sweets.

  Je ne m'autorise pas de sucreries.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Tom9358 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #256722 #584839

• We can't allow this.

  Nous ne pouvons autoriser cela.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Toynop · checked, community translation · #5789699 #5798324

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