might — English to French
How English might is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.
What it means: might in the Elamur Dictionary.
Sentence pairs counted, by form: might (137 829), mights (2). By style: everyday 948 · literary 132 · biblical 380 · parliamentary 12 409 · legal and administrative 7 363 · UN documents 116 599.
pourrait
Used about 57 272 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 395 · literary ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 3 102 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 454 · UN documents ≈ 51 304). Forms: pourraient, pourrait.
I might be interested.
Ça pourrait m’intéresser.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Orange and Orange · checked, community translation · #12225806 #12225799"No, Axel; the open air might be bad for you."
—-Non, Axel, non! le grand air pourrait te faire du mal.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2538You might think so....
On pourrait le penser...
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1694154Is concerned that ultimately similar errors might exist in all Member States;
s’inquiète de ce que des erreurs semblables pourraient exister en fin de compte dans tous les États membres;
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 5601920Pyridine might be evaluated differently now.
Aujourd ' hui, la pyridine pourrait être évaluée différemment.
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 25215711
peut
Used about 19 943 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 257 · literary ≈ 19 · parliamentary ≈ 1 810 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 534 · UN documents ≈ 16 324).
He might have come.
Il est peut-être venu.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lebensfreude and samir_t · checked, community translation · #10803423 #7428224Besides, we might miss the funeral without missing the riot.”
D'ailleurs on peut manquer l'enterrement, sans manquer l'émeute.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 23800In this area, we are going beyond, one might say, what has been done up to now.
Dans ce domaine, nous allons au-delà, peut-on dire, de ce qui a été fait jusqu'à présent.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1663626It might indeed be entirely different from the Consortium.
Il peut s’agir d’un tout autre groupe que le consortium.
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 1397318The " crisis " referred to might be of an economic or social nature.
La < < crise > > dont il est fait mention peut être d ' ordre économique ou social.
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 9008200
tout
Used about 4 847 times in the texts (literary ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 24 · legal and administrative ≈ 153 · UN documents ≈ 4 664).
“By the way, Monsieur Fabre, I might as well say it to you at once.”
--Monsieur Fabre, tenez, autant que je vous dise tout de suite.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17676I have kept my feet from every evil way, that I might observe your word.
Je retiens mon pied loin de tout mauvais chemin, Afin de garder ta parole.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 119:101‘serious incident’ means any incident that directly or indirectly led, might have led or might lead to any of the following:
«incident grave», tout incident ayant entraîné directement ou indirectement, susceptible d'avoir entraîné ou susceptible d'entraîner:
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 4312279Some might ridicule the common Belarusian saying " Only let there be no war " .
D ' aucuns tourneraient en dérision le proverbe bélarussien bien connu : < < Tout sauf la guerre > > .
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 13348623Nevertheless, when our poet beheld quiet reestablished to some extent, he devised a stratagem which might have redeemed all.
Pourtant quand notre poète vit le calme un peu rétabli, il imagina un stratagème qui eût tout sauvé.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 538
être
Used about 2 747 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 79 · literary ≈ 14 · biblical ≈ 16 · legal and administrative ≈ 307 · UN documents ≈ 2 332).
I thought you might be upset.
Je pensais que vous pourriez être contrariée.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1961628 #2137692It might have been half-past eight o’clock in the evening.
Il pouvait être huit heures et demie du soir.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28030to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time, that he might himself be just and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
de montrer sa justice dans le temps présent, de manière à être juste tout en justifiant celui qui a la foi en Jésus.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ROM 3:26Applicants shall be free from herniae that might give rise to incapacitating symptoms.
Le demandeur ne doit pas être porteur d'une hernie capable de provoquer des symptômes susceptibles d'entraîner une incapacité.
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 3602943Furthermore, such projects usually involved contractual arrangements of considerable complexity and might require lengthy negotiations.
En outre, ces projets donnaient généralement lieu à la signature de contrats extrêmement complexes qui pouvait être précédée de longues négociations.
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 2347353
si
Used about 1 626 times in the texts (literary ≈ 11 · biblical ≈ 16 · parliamentary ≈ 1 293 · legal and administrative ≈ 307).
If you felt inclined we might go again one of these days.”
Si vous voulez, nous recommencerons un jour ou l'autre cette partie-là ...
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 2233Who knows whether God will not turn and relent, and turn away from his fierce anger, so that we might not perish?”
Qui sait si Dieu ne reviendra pas et ne se repentira pas, et s’il ne renoncera pas à son ardente colère, en sorte que nous ne périssions point?
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JON 3:9This might be a possibility if China respected international intellectual property rights.
Cette possibilité serait envisageable si la Chine respectait le droit international de la propriété intellectuelle.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1427326The Commission has assessed whether the Alcoa tariff might correspond to one of these categories.
La Commission a cherché à déterminer si le tarif Alcoa pouvait être classé dans l’une ou l’autre de ces catégories.
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 2010164“If this revolt be what I suppose, sire, you might will in vain.”
«Si cette révolte est ce que je suppose, vous auriez beau vouloir, Sire!
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7829
More sentences
Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.
Radishes might be more expensive than the carrots.
Il est possible que les radis soient plus chers que les carottes.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Scott · checked, community translation · #275675 #925403You might want to think about this a little longer.
Tu devrais réfléchir à ça un peu plus longtemps.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · #8996279 #9843500If it hadn't been for his help, she might have drowned.
Sans son aide, elle aurait pu se noyer.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #30654 #10207167
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