direction — French to English

How French direction is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: direction (135 864), directions (6 200). By style: everyday 164 · literary 15 · biblical 20 · parliamentary 7 966 · legal and administrative 14 555 · UN documents 119 344.

direction

Used about 56 836 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 76 · literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 987 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 519 · UN documents ≈ 47 240). Forms: direction, directions. Meaning: direction in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ils viennent dans ma direction.

  They're heading in my direction.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien_PDC and sundown · checked, community translation · #10478101 #10474696

• Cependant, il suivait une direction.

  Nevertheless, he followed one given direction.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28523

• En cheminant, elles allaient de leurs quatre côtés, et elles ne se tournaient point dans leur marche; mais elles allaient dans la direction de la tête, sans se tourner dans leur marche.

  When they went, they went in their four directions. They didn’t turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it. They didn’t turn as they went.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 10:11

• Ce compromis est un pas dans la bonne direction.

  This compromise is a step in the right direction.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1552518

• Directions des forces d’essai

  Directions of test forces

  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 5487969

directorate

Used about 25 910 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 2 074 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 942 · UN documents ≈ 19 891). Forms: directorate, directorates.

• Le contrôleur général de la police nationale supervise des directions régionales ou centrales.

  The general inspector of the national police oversees regional or central directorates.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · #13362901 #13362900

• Faisons en sorte que ce va et vient entre différentes directions générales ne se produise plus.

  Let there be an end to this jumping from one Directorate-General to another.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 223422

• Direction générale du commerce

  Directorate General for Trade

  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 1212231

• Conseiller/Direction générale Environnement

  Adviser/Directorate-General Environment

  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 30320249

• Cela est peut-être dû au fait que différentes directions de la Commission sont impliquées.

  The reason for this could be that there are different Commission directorates involved.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 78848

management

Used about 13 536 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 14 · parliamentary ≈ 332 · legal and administrative ≈ 758 · UN documents ≈ 12 432). Meaning: management in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Le syndicat a négocié avec la direction.

  The union bargained with the management.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · #273961 #7435382

• Les instances de direction de l'agence sont nommées par la Commission.

  The agency' s management bodies are appointed by the Commission.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 217145

• Le représentant peut être un membre du plus haut niveau de la direction de l'organisation.

  The top management representative may be a member of the top management of the organisation.

  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 4373546

• Il avait donc saisi le Conseil de direction de la question.

  It had therefore brought the issue to the Senior Management Group.

  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 13029882

• Le désaccord entre le syndicat et la direction pourrait mener à la grève.

  The disagreement between the union and management could lead to a strike.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gall and CK · checked, community translation · #326372 #1685313

More sentences

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

• Quelle direction prenez-vous ?

  Where are you heading?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #669130 #474011

• Je ne pense pas que nous voulions prendre cette direction.

  I don't think that we want to go down that road.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #7226390 #3956898

• L'homme a pointé une arme en direction de l'agent de police.

  The man aimed a gun at the policeman.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #45295 #2009774

Grammar

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