directive — French to English

How French directive 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: directive (202 167), directives (133 902). By style: everyday 5 · parliamentary 40 072 · legal and administrative 149 327 · UN documents 146 665.

directive

Used about 216 868 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 37 150 · legal and administrative ≈ 139 994 · UN documents ≈ 39 722). Forms: directive, directives.

• Cela enfreindrait la Directive Première.

  That would break the Prime Directive.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · #2220041 #2223139

• Le principe est intégré à la directive.

  The principle is contained in the directive.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 402048

• Directives 2004/9/CE et 2004/10/CE.

  Directive 2004/9/EC and Directive 2004/10/EC.

  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 1431751

• Accordance to EU directive 1999/36:

  Accordance to EU directive 1999/36:

  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 12778597

• Nous avons reçu une nouvelle directive du conseil d'administration, hier. Ils veulent que nous nous concentrions sur nos projets les plus visibles.

  We received a new directive from the board yesterday. They want us to focus on our most visible projects.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #2337158 #8506409

guidelines

Used about 69 335 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 417 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 333 · UN documents ≈ 59 583).

• Tom a suivi les directives.

  Tom followed the guidelines.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tras and CK · checked, community translation · #7544399 #7554368

• Jusqu'ici, les directives relatives aux régions montagneuses étaient uniquement basées, sur le plan juridique, sur les politiques agricoles.

  So far, guidelines for hill and mountain areas were based, in law, solely on agricultural policies.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1131666

• les directives techniques internationales sur les munitions;

  International Ammunition Technical Guidelines;

  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 4555593

• Directives relatives à la signalisation

  Guidelines for Waterway Signs

  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 28075301

• Ce sont uniquement des directives, non des règles absolues.

  These are just guidelines, not hard and fast rules.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and darinmex · checked, community translation · #950973 #951046

council

Used about 417 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 417). Meaning: council in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je demanderais que le Conseil délibère lui aussi dans les meilleurs délais sur cette directive.

  My plea to the Council would be that it should debate this regulation as soon as possible.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 68485

More sentences

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

• Nous reçûmes des directives sur comment réaliser un panier en bambou.

  We received instructions on how to make a bamboo basket.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · #249068 #1619028

• En ce qui concerne la sécurité, je crois que l’adoption de la directive représente un pas en avant dans la lutte contre le terrorisme et d’autres infractions graves.

  From the point of view of security, I believe that adopting it is an essential step in the fight against terrorism and other serious crimes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 755499

• Je voudrais dire à M. Jarzembowski que cette directive s’avérerait catastrophique pour les emplois.

  I want to say to Mr Jarzembowski that this law would be devastating for jobs.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 761017

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