power — English to French

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

What it means: power in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: power (152 904), powers (64 545). By style: everyday 350 · literary 32 · biblical 219 · parliamentary 20 655 · legal and administrative 37 312 · UN documents 158 881.

pouvoir

Used about 94 910 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 233 · literary ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 10 758 · legal and administrative ≈ 14 381 · UN documents ≈ 69 510). Forms: pouvoir, pouvoirs.

• I'm abusing my power.

  J'abuse de mon pouvoir.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Fenrir and Fenrir · checked, community translation · #11759346 #11759343

• Power itself is often a faction.

  Souvent le pouvoir lui-même est une faction.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18228

• Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

  La mort et la vie sont au pouvoir de la langue; Quiconque l’aime en mangera les fruits.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 18:21

• As we all know, information in itself is power.

  Nous le savons tous, information est synonyme de pouvoir.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1734914

• Powers and duties of authorising officer

  Pouvoirs et fonctions de l'ordonnateur

  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 4943570

puissance

Used about 40 877 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 40 · literary ≈ 9 · biblical ≈ 120 · parliamentary ≈ 2 367 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 551 · UN documents ≈ 29 790). Forms: puissance, puissances.

• I need his power.

  J'ai besoin de sa puissance.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and ofuro · checked, community translation · #249980 #763913

• From the proper employment of forces results public power.

  Du bon emploi des forces résulte la puissance publique.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18280

• Behold, God is exalted in his power. Who is a teacher like him?

  Dieu est grand par sa puissance; Qui saurait enseigner comme lui?

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 36:22

• Sixty years ago, Nazi powers were jointly defeated by nations of Europe.

  Il y a soixante ans, les puissances nazies ont été vaincues par les nations d’Europe.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 676807

• For a power handling capacity not exceeding 20 W

  pour une puissance n'excédant pas 20 W

  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 5283258

More sentences

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

• Wisdom does not prevail over power.

  La sagesse ne remplace pas la force.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sabretou and colique · checked, community translation · #2570661 #8654485

• The power plant was mothballed because of its outdated technology.

  La centrale a été mise au rancart à cause de sa technologie dépassée.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by darinmex and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2112220 #2112312

• It was the great lung-power of Caruso that made him a great singer.

  C'était la grande capacité pulmonaire de Caruso qui en a fait un grand chanteur.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source_Benedict_1921 and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #847209 #1035605

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