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Dictionary

pouvoir

Meaning

1. can, to be able to
2. may
3. to be possible; may, could be

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pu.vwaʁ/

Inherited from Latin

possum

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Sentences

Le président a

un important pouvoir de nomination ou de proposition .

The President has significant power of appointment or proposal.

Le confinement , on
1️⃣

aurait aimé pouvoir s’en passer .

Lockdown, we would have liked to have been able to do without it.

Enfin c’est en quelque sorte les saturnales du pouvoir .

Finally, they are in a way the saturnalia of power.

Leur unique mission est de convaincre Laurent Gbagbo d'abandonner de manière pacifique le pouvoir .

Their only mission is to convince Laurent Gbagbo to give up power peacefully.

Au fur et à mesure que diminue le pouvoir royal s'affirme celui
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des féodaux .

As royal power diminishes, that of the feudal lords asserts itself.

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