pourrait — French to English

How French pourrait is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: pourrait (198 512). By style: everyday 935 · literary 36 · biblical 20 · parliamentary 18 923 · legal and administrative 11 805 · UN documents 166 793.

could

Used about 78 665 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 526 · literary ≈ 7 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 11 433 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 624 · UN documents ≈ 59 073).

• Il pourrait nous aider.

  He could help us.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CH · checked, community translation · #8480654 #12016810

• --La portière m'a dit qu'il ne pourrait pas venir aujourd'hui.

  “The portress told me that he could not come to-day.”

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 5700

• Si cet homme ne venait pas de Dieu, il ne pourrait rien faire.

  If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 9:33

• Le commissaire pourrait-il commenter ce point?

  Could the Commissioner comment on that?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1138234

• Cette date pourrait être revue en cas de besoin.

  This date could be reviewed if need be.

  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 5425166

might

Used about 47 027 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 292 · literary ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 3 548 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 476 · UN documents ≈ 41 698). Meaning: might in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Cela pourrait m’intéresser.

  I might be interested.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Orange and Orange · checked, community translation · #12225806 #12225800

• —-Non, Axel, non! le grand air pourrait te faire du mal.

  "No, Axel; the open air might be bad for you."

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 2538

• Et une union fière de son identité, pourrait-on ajouter?

  A very proud one, I might add?

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1510715

• pourrait nuire à la concurrence loyale entre fournisseurs;

  might prejudice fair competition between suppliers;

  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 251500

• Un comité consultatif pourrait être désigné pour choisir les lauréats.

  An advisory committee might be appointed for the selection of the nominees.

  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 1979068

More sentences

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

• Elle ne pourrait le convaincre d'accepter le pot-de-vin.

  She couldn't convince him to accept the bribe.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #887046 #1385473

• Yanni pourrait être là-bas.

  Yanni would be there.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by always and Amastan · checked, community translation · #9961827 #12476836

• Il se peut que je connaisse quelqu'un qui pourrait vous aider.

  I may know someone who can help you.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Wakano and CK · checked, community translation · #2387105 #2965261

Grammar

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