capable — English to French

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

What it means: capable in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: capable (31 791), capables (13). By style: everyday 102 · literary 14 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 3 075 · legal and administrative 8 106 · UN documents 20 506.

capables

Used about 13 182 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 85 · literary ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 1 473 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 209 · UN documents ≈ 8 404). Forms: capable, capables.

• He's capable of anything.

  Il est capable de tout.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #3794125 #3797226

• My shoes are capable of that.”

  Mes souliers en sont capables.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18631

• The European Union is capable of doing this.

  L’Union européenne en est capable.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 603198

• Equipment capable of producing any of the following:

  équipements capables de produire l'un des résultats suivants:

  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 478676

• ii) Cryogenic refrigeration units capable of temperatures of -120°C or less, or

  ii) Appareils de réfrigération cryogéniques capables d ' atteindre des températures inférieures ou égales à -120 °C, ou

  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 9629286

pouvoir

Used about 4 608 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 64 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 182 · UN documents ≈ 3 362).

• What is within the EU must be made capable of sustaining enlargement.

  Ce qui se trouve au sein de l’UE doit pouvoir soutenir l’élargissement.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 535060

• The damper shall also be capable of being manually closed from each side of the division.

  Ce volet doit aussi pouvoir être fermé à la main de chaque côté du cloisonnement.

  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 5162147

• The filling and discharge devices shall be capable of being secured against unintended opening.

  Ils doivent pouvoir être verrouillés contre une ouverture intempestive.

  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 9712550

• The electrical lines shall not be capable of short circuiting even when overloaded;

  Les circuits électriques ne doivent pas pouvoir entrer en court-circuit, même en cas de surcharge;

  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 5478984

• The doors shall be capable of being opened or closed on the spot from either side of the bulkhead.

  Les portes doivent pouvoir être manoeuvrées sur place de chaque côté de la cloison.

  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 6745110

More sentences

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

• Tom is very capable.

  Tom est très compétent.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and mela · checked, community translation · #1093416 #2808008

• Americans may regard shy people as less capable than those who are not shy.

  Les Américains peuvent considérer les personnes timides comme moins compétentes que celles qui ne le sont pas.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and TRANG · checked, community translation · #67467 #136215

• Computers are capable of doing very complicated work in a split second.

  Les ordinateurs peuvent faire un travail très compliqué en une fraction de seconde.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and Lulantis · checked, community translation · #54546 #11573

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