direct — French to English

How French direct is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations 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: direct (36 853), directe (38 231), directes (13 497), directs (23 852). By style: everyday 80 · literary 5 · parliamentary 6 601 · legal and administrative 19 916 · UN documents 85 831.

direct

Used about 96 269 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 56 · literary ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 5 845 · legal and administrative ≈ 17 945 · UN documents ≈ 72 420). Forms: direct, directly. Meaning: direct in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je serai direct.

  I'll be direct.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #2247667 #4693355

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

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

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

• Paiements directs aux agriculteurs (

  Direct payments to farmers (

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1590039

• SUBSTITUTS DE CRÉDIT DIRECTS

  DIRECT CREDIT SUBSTITUTES (DCS)

  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 4712574

• d) Aide directe aux enfants

  (d) Direct assistance to children

  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 4937592

investment

Used about 516 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 69 · UN documents ≈ 447). Meaning: investment in the Elamur Dictionary.

• C'est cette culture que nous exportons dans d'autres pays sous forme de délocalisations et d'investissements directs.

  We export this culture to other countries in the shape of company relocations and massive investment programmes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1801019

• Des questions ont été soulevées quant aux coûts sociaux de programmes qui visent à attirer les investissements étrangers directs, par exemple les zones industrielles économiques.

  43. Questions have been raised about the social costs of schemes to attract foreign investment such as economic processing zones.

  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 6875830

• Mais ce qui manque surtout en Russie, ce sont des investissements directs étrangers. À cela s'ajoute une énorme fuite des profits des entreprises russes.

  But, most importantly, there is a lack of foreign investment in the Russian Federation, coupled with a huge drain on the profits of Russia companies.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 131187

More sentences

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

• Tom est très direct.

  Tom is very straightforward.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #3409120 #5868707

• Nous le ferons en direct.

  We'll do it live.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Spamster · checked, community translation · #1538708 #1538830

• Le match de football a été diffusé en direct à la télévision.

  The football match was broadcast live on television.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and RudeGuyGames · checked, community translation · #6443394 #10492225

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