pouvait — French to English

How French pouvait 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: pouvait (55 506). By style: everyday 552 · literary 109 · biblical 39 · parliamentary 2 774 · legal and administrative 4 949 · UN documents 47 083.

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Used about 37 234 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 334 · literary ≈ 70 · biblical ≈ 13 · parliamentary ≈ 1 560 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 887 · UN documents ≈ 32 370).

• Tom pouvait à peine marcher.

  Tom could barely walk.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Asorel and CK · checked, community translation · #1095216 #4904040

• Il ne pouvait aller plus loin.

  He could get no further.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3412

• Or Éli était âgé de quatre-vingt-dix-huit ans, il avait les yeux fixes et ne pouvait plus voir.

  Now Eli was ninety-eight years old. His eyes were set, so that he could not see.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1SA 4:15

• On ne pouvait pire.

  They could not be making a worse decision.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 303616

• La valeur d'entreprise pouvait être calculée comme suit:

  The enterprise value could be computed as the following:

  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 4827026

More sentences

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

• Tom savait que Mary ne pouvait pas nager, mais il lui a quand même demandé d'aller nager avec lui.

  Tom knew that Mary couldn't swim, but he asked her to go swimming with him anyway.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by aperitero and CK · checked, community translation · #7731311 #7789759

• Tom a dit qu'il ne pouvait pas se porter garant de Marie.

  Tom said that he couldn't vouch for Mary.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and CK · checked, community translation · #1093049 #13868567

• Sami ne pouvait pas supporter la sœur de Layla.

  Sami couldn't stand Layla's sister.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tras and OsoHombre · checked, community translation · #7271883 #7272147

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