Elamur Translateagir — French to English
How French agir 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: agir (48 303), agire (4). By style: everyday 142 · literary 6 · biblical 27 · parliamentary 9 292 · legal and administrative 3 275 · UN documents 35 565.
act
Used about 23 193 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 95 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 4 840 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 842 · UN documents ≈ 16 415). Forms: act, action. Meaning: act in the Elamur Dictionary.
On doit agir vite.
We've got to act fast.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sameclaire and CK · checked, community translation · #3310197 #3922817Il sentait bien qu'il lui faudrait penser tout à l'heure, et agir, mais il attendait, ne voulant même plus comprendre, savoir, se rappeler, par peur, par faiblesse, par lâcheté.
He was conscious, indeed, that he must presently think and act, but he would wait, refusing to understand, to know, to remember, out of fear, weakness, cowardice.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1795Il est urgent d'agir.
It is urgent that we take action.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 942315L'État actionnaire entend agir ainsi en investisseur avisé.
The State shareholder thus intends to act like a prudent investor.
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 826504Il est donc plus impératif que jamais d ' agir.
The need for action has thus become even more imperative.
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 17996321
More sentences
Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.
Il doit s'agir d'une erreur.
It must be a mistake.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · #3178629 #13393320Si tu veux bavasser, il faut être prêt à agir.
If you're going to talk the talk, you've got to be prepared to walk the walk.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and patgfisher · checked, community translation · #4566596 #4567266Il est temps pour toi de commencer à agir comme un adulte.
It's time for you to start acting like an adult.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gillux and CK · checked, community translation · #10780055 #13710566
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