possible — French to English

How French possible 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: possible (270 082), possibles (40 370). By style: everyday 751 · literary 57 · biblical 19 · parliamentary 31 206 · legal and administrative 32 594 · UN documents 245 825.

possible

Used about 186 971 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 611 · literary ≈ 49 · biblical ≈ 11 · parliamentary ≈ 20 154 · legal and administrative ≈ 22 748 · UN documents ≈ 143 398). Meaning: possible in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ce n'est pas possible.

  That's not possible.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #954332 #1108644

• --Oui, c'est possible.

  “But it is possible.”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1900

• Jésus répondit: Ce qui est impossible aux hommes est possible à Dieu.

  But he said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 18:27

• Un meilleur service aurait, néanmoins, été possible.

  A better service could have been possible, though.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1405045

• Les utilisations possibles des voies ferrées.

  The possible uses of railways.

  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 2198457

More sentences

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

• Tom a crié aussi fort que possible.

  Tom screamed at the top of his lungs.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mookeee and CK · checked, community translation · #1024201 #1091934

• Je ferai tout mon possible.

  I'll do whatever I can.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by TRANG and CK · checked, community translation · #4890439 #335459

• En général, je ne prends pas de petit déjeuner parce que je préfère dormir aussi longtemps que possible.

  I don't usually eat breakfast because I'd rather sleep as late as I can.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tras and CK · checked, community translation · #7544676 #7562370

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