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إمكانيات\القدرات

English translation: potentials/capabilities

22:21 Dec 17, 2011
Arabic to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
Arabic term or phrase: إمكانيات\القدرات
الرواية تحمل إمكانيات لكاتب لديه الكثير من القدرات
Omnia Abdelgani
Local time: 18:05
English translation:potentials/capabilities
Explanation:
potentials/capabilities

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Note added at 6 mins (2011-12-17 22:28:22 GMT)
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Potentials:إمكانيات
capabilities:قدرات
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Heba Abed
Egypt
Local time: 18:05
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3potentials/capabilities
Heba Abed
4capabilities & potentialities
Morano El-Kholy
4potentials / prospects
halani
4skills
Hassan Lotfy
4إمكانيات :Capabilities قدرات : Qualifications
hazem22 (X)
4possibilities/skills
Dareth Pray
3potentials /faculties
Tarik Boussetta
3capabilities/ capacities
Howaida Emad


  

Answers


3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
capabilities & potentialities


Explanation:
capabilities & potentialities

Morano El-Kholy
Egypt
Local time: 18:05
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 28
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
potentials/capabilities


Explanation:
potentials/capabilities

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Note added at 6 mins (2011-12-17 22:28:22 GMT)
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Potentials:إمكانيات
capabilities:قدرات

Heba Abed
Egypt
Local time: 18:05
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 8
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Selected automatically based on peer agreement.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Mokhtar Oussama Alliouche
10 hrs
  -> Many thanks Mokhtar!
agree  Ammar Mahmood
10 hrs
  -> Many thanks Ammar!
agree  Spiridon: yes
2 days 21 hrs
  -> Many thanks Spiridon!
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
إمكانيات\\القدرات
potentials /faculties


Explanation:
potentials /faculties

Tarik Boussetta
Local time: 17:05
Native speaker of: Arabic
PRO pts in category: 7
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
capabilities/ capacities


Explanation:
"

Howaida Emad
Local time: 18:05
Native speaker of: Arabic
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
potentials / prospects


Explanation:
potentials / prospects

halani
United Arab Emirates
Local time: 20:05
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 3
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
skills


Explanation:
would fit the context most

Hassan Lotfy
Egypt
Local time: 18:05
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in EnglishEnglish
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15 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
إمكانيات\\القدرات
إمكانيات :Capabilities قدرات : Qualifications


Explanation:
I think Qualifications is closer to the meaning than potentials that the meaning doesn't refer to a physical power but thinking power

hazem22 (X)
Local time: 19:05
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
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21 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
possibilities/skills


Explanation:
These sound the most natural in English to me in this context.

مكانيات possibilities
القدرات skills

Dareth Pray
United States
Local time: 09:05
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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