permettre — French to English

How French permettre is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: permettre (192 148). By style: everyday 142 · literary 3 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 13 281 · legal and administrative 23 222 · UN documents 155 495.

enable

Used about 33 857 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 830 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 870 · UN documents ≈ 29 155). Meaning: enable in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Telle était cette longue artère que les trains parcouraient en sept jours, et qui allait permettre à l'honorable Phileas Fogg--il l'espérait du moins--de prendre, le 11, à New York, le paquebot de Liverpool.

  Such was the road to be traversed in seven days, which would enable Phileas Fogg—at least, so he hoped—to take the Atlantic steamer at New York on the 11th for Liverpool.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 2153

• Voilà un cas où, de manière temporaire, des compensations peuvent permettre de trouver une solution.

  This is a case where, temporarily, compensation may enable a solution to be found.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 299636

• Un dispositif manuel doit permettre (au personnel de bord ou aux équipes de maintenance) de condamner une porte.

  A manually operated mechanical device shall be provided to enable (the train crew or maintenance staff) to lock a door out of service.

  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 2252911

• Des crédits sont prévus pour permettre à l’Institut de fonctionner jusqu’à la fin de 1999.

  9. Funds have been authorized for the Institute to enable it to operate until the end of 1999.

  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 5643168

• Copenhague doit ainsi permettre aux pays en développement d'évoluer vers des modèles sobres en carbone.

  Copenhagen must also enable developing countries to move in the direction of low-carbon models.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1289939

allow

Used about 21 147 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 21 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 4 150 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 257 · UN documents ≈ 9 718). Meaning: allow in the Elamur Dictionary.

• On ne peut pas permettre ça.

  We can't allow that.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #1893924 #7886987

• 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.

  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.

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

• Puis-je me permettre de corriger encore une de vos paroles?

  Allow me to correct a few other words you said.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1936400

• permettre l’inspection visuelle des volailles;

  allow visual inspection of the poultry;

  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 834112

• En premier lieu, il doit permettre une modernisation de nos structures productives.

  First, it must allow for the modernization of our productive structures.

  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 780468

afford

Used about 12 663 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 109 · parliamentary ≈ 1 383 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 451 · UN documents ≈ 9 718). Meaning: afford in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je ne peux me permettre un avocat.

  I can't afford a lawyer.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #2303553 #6915000

• Nous ne pouvons pas nous permettre d'ignorer ces questions.

  These are issues that we cannot afford to ignore.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1225714

• Non, le ménage ne peut pas se le permettre

  No — household cannot afford it

  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 3245360

• Nous ne pouvons nous permettre d ' y faire face seuls.

  We cannot afford to face them alone.

  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 23761552

• Elle ne pouvait pas se le permettre.

  She couldn't afford it.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Rovo and patgfisher · checked, community translation · #2801479 #2801443

must

Used about 5 037 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 830 · legal and administrative ≈ 968 · UN documents ≈ 3 239). Meaning: must in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Afin de permettre aux mères d'enfants en bas âge de reprendre le travail, nous devons construire suffisamment d'infrastructures d'accueil préscolaires.

  In order for mothers of young children to be able to return to work, we must build enough pre-school facilities.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1430019

• Ces tests doivent permettre de vérifier que les caractéristiques techniques suivantes de l’IBNS sont satisfaisantes:

  These tests must make it possible to ascertain that the following technical characteristics of the IBNS are satisfactory:

  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 2460158

• Les parties doivent faire preuve d ' initiative et de responsabilité, et admettre que des compromis difficiles sont nécessaires pour permettre aux communautés de coexister en paix.

  The parties must demonstrate responsible leadership and recognize that difficult compromises are necessary for the peaceful coexistence of the communities.

  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 23241203

• Il faudra que l'UE se fixe clairement comme objectif, lorsque les prochaines négociations au sein de l'OMC débuteront, de permettre un tel contingent.

  When the next round of WTO negotiations begins, the EU must have the clear objective of bringing about such a quota.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1858881

• Des données suffisantes doivent être fournies pour permettre une évaluation des éventuels effets néfastes d’un traitement à l’aide d’un produit phytopharmaceutique sur les cultures successives.

  Sufficient data must be reported to permit an evaluation of possible adverse effects of a treatment with the plant protection product on succeeding crops.

  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 2394622

More sentences

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

• Je ne peux pas vous le permettre.

  I can't let you.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · #1453391 #1453727

• Une histoire raconte que si la pièce de monnaie est ronde c'est pour lui permettre de rouler d'un endroit à l'autre.

  According to one story, the money was round so that it could roll from place to place.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by hortusdei and papabear · checked, community translation · #67135 #135847

• Désolé, je ne peux pas te permettre de rester ici.

  Sorry, I can't let you stay here.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and FlamingTofu · checked, community translation · #2042258 #2042564

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