direct — English to French

How English direct is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: direct in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: direct (119 053), directs (2 126). By style: everyday 73 · literary 10 · biblical 8 · parliamentary 6 786 · legal and administrative 20 138 · UN documents 94 164.

direct

Used about 38 631 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 44 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 2 871 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 230 · UN documents ≈ 26 484). Forms: direct, directe, directs.

• You're very direct.

  Tu es très direct.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #2218480 #2228689

• Ambition was at that time, in the direct acceptation of the word, a race to the steeple.

  L'ambition en ce temps-là était, dans l'acception directe du mot, une course au clocher.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3577

• Citizens Direct is being launched, but without any real success.

  On lance Citizens direct sans réellement parvenir au but recherché.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 368846

• Direct write capability; or

  capacité d'écriture directe; ou

  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 1842879

• Submitting entity: Direct submission

  Submitting entity: Direct submission

  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 9665183

dirige

Used about 19 174 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 261 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 195 · UN documents ≈ 14 713).

• A conductor directs an orchestra.

  Un chef d'orchestre dirige un orchestre.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rovo · checked, community translation · #246256 #8119

• A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD directs his steps.

  Le cœur de l’homme médite sa voie, Mais c’est l’Éternel qui dirige ses pas.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 16:9

• The security forces which he directs have frequently intervened in a violent manner to disperse opposition demonstrations and there have been deaths and injuries.

  Les forces de sécurité qu'il dirige sont fréquemment intervenues d'une manière violente pour disperser des manifestations de l'opposition, et il y a eu des morts et des blessés.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1345032

• The Chair directs the work of the Joint Committee.

  Le président dirige les travaux du comité mixte.

  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 4530292

• As such, he directs government action.

  À ce titre, il dirige l ' action du gouvernement.

  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 5256682

More sentences

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

• I must admit confusedly not to know where to direct my suspicions.

  Je dois confusément avouer ne pas savoir où diriger mes soupçons.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and nimfeo · checked, community translation · #6830705 #5226903

• Can you direct me to the post office?

  Pouvez-vous m'indiquer la direction du bureau de poste.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and eddiegab · checked, community translation · #324556 #135496

• Can I dial direct?

  Puis-je faire le numéro directement ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #278248 #129421

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