possibility — English to French

How English possibility is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: possibility in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: possibilities (21 221), possibility (72 613). By style: everyday 132 · literary 4 · parliamentary 8 928 · legal and administrative 10 534 · UN documents 74 236.

possibilités

Used about 61 408 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 109 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 6 231 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 669 · UN documents ≈ 46 397). Forms: possibilité, possibilités.

• There are two possibilities.

  Il existe deux possibilités.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Rovo · checked, community translation · #2399288 #2398773

• The possibility of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect.

  La possibilité d'atteindre doit tourner en augmentation de respect.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26131

• This opens up huge possibilities.

  Et les possibilités offertes sont grandes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 202495

• The procedure allows for two possibilities:

  La procédure offre deux possibilités:

  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 844615

• (b) The possibility of modifying the practice;

  b) La possibilité de modifier la pratique;

  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 6366475

More sentences

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

• I thought there was a possibility that Tom was going to break the contract.

  J'ai pensé qu'il était possible que Tom soit sur le point de rompre le contrat.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Sisyphe · checked, community translation · #1960900 #2172185

• Don't discount that possibility.

  N'écarte pas cette éventualité.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #4497684 #11246972

• Have you taken into consideration the possibility that you might be wrong?

  As-tu envisagé que tu puisses avoir tort ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Reletr and lbdx · checked, community translation · #13308844 #12014967

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