peut — French to English

How French peut is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: peut (730 180). By style: everyday 4 698 · literary 199 · biblical 225 · parliamentary 72 720 · legal and administrative 128 702 · UN documents 523 636.

cannot

Used about 48 719 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 196 · literary ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 10 605 · legal and administrative ≈ 16 088 · UN documents ≈ 21 818).

• Cette histoire ne peut être vraie.

  The story cannot be true.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · #43308 #911942

• On ne peut pas aller les voir sans enfoncer dans la terre.

  You cannot go to see them without sinking into the earth.”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16168

• Mais on ne peut changer cela maintenant.

  However, it cannot be changed now.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1821736

• Dans ses utilisations générales, il ne peut être remplacé par de quelconques produits de substitution.

  In its general uses, it cannot be replaced by any substitutes.

  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 2523805

• 97. Entre deux jours de travail les salariés ont droit à un repos qui ne peut être inférieur à douze heures consécutives.

  Between two working days, the employees are entitled to rest that cannot be less than 12 consecutive hours.

  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 27956521

More sentences

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

• Peut-être que je vais aller nager après l'école.

  Maybe I'll go swimming after school.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and CK · checked, community translation · #5591991 #5592740

• L'argent ne peut pas tout acheter.

  Money can't buy everything.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mervert1 and CM · checked, community translation · #1334072 #4294114

• Il ne peut pas connaître la vérité.

  He can't know the truth.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by TRANG and CK · checked, community translation · #283885 #330967

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