instruction — English to French

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

What it means: instruction in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: instruction (23 847), instructions (36 219). By style: everyday 76 · literary 6 · biblical 42 · parliamentary 622 · legal and administrative 10 208 · UN documents 49 112.

instructions

Used about 41 068 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 63 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 22 · parliamentary ≈ 350 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 400 · UN documents ≈ 32 230). Forms: instruction, instructions.

• Did you read the instructions?

  As-tu lu les instructions ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · #3356216 #6940002

• I followed him to a headland, after he had given his instructions to the hunter.

  Je le suivis sur un cap élevé, après qu'il eut donné ses instructions au chasseur.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3258

• Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it.

  Écoutez l’instruction, pour devenir sages, Ne la rejetez pas.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 8:33

• Would you please follow the Bureau's instructions!

  Je vous prie de suivre les instructions du Bureau!

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1815306

• See instructions for C 06.02

  Voir instructions pour C 06.02

  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 4420954

ai

Used about 1 038 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 13 · UN documents ≈ 1 023).

• I have often observed how little young ladies are interested by books of a serious stamp, though written solely for their benefit. It amazes me, I confess; for, certainly, there can be nothing so advantageous to them as instruction.

  J’ai souvent remarqué que les jeunes filles ne savent pas s’intéresser aux œuvres sérieuses, écrites cependant pour leur bien. Cela me confond, je l’avoue, car rien ne peut leur faire plus de bien qu’une lecture instructive.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · #838504 #838514

• and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof.

  Et que tu ne dises: Comment donc ai-je pu haïr la correction, Et comment mon cœur a-t-il dédaigné la réprimande?

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 5:12

• I have given instructions to my staff to pay close attention to this issue.

  J'ai demandé à mon équipe d'être particulièrement attentive à ce problème.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 200348

• On instructions from my Government I wish to inform you of the following:

  D ' ordre de mon gouvernement, j ' ai l ' honneur d ' appeler votre attention sur ce qui suit :

  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 13103173

• I am also dissatisfied by this fact and have given clear and firm instructions to my services not to repeat such a mistake again.

  J'en suis tout aussi peu satisfait et j'ai donné à mes services des consignes claires et fermes afin d'éviter que cette erreur ne se reproduise.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1139343

More sentences

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

• Consult the instruction manual before you do anything!

  Consultez le mode d'emploi avant de faire quoi que ce soit !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lebensfreude and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #13404855 #10324732

• Consult the instruction manual before doing anything!

  Consultez le mode d'emploi avant de faire quoi que ce soit !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lebensfreude and Julien_PDC · checked, community translation · #13404854 #10324732

• You can download the instruction manual for the heat exchanger here.

  Vous pouvez télécharger le mode d'emploi de l'échangeur de chaleur ici.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and MUIRIEL · checked, community translation · #457147 #455127

Grammar

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