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Forms: direct, directe, directs. - You're very **direct**. Tu es très **direct**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2218480](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2218480) [\#2228689](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2228689)) - Ambition was at that time, in the **direct** acceptation of the word, a race to the steeple. L'ambition en ce temps-là était, dans l'acception **directe** du mot, une course au clocher. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3577) - Citizens **Direct** is being launched, but without any real success. On lance Citizens **direct** sans réellement parvenir au but recherché. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 368846) - **Direct** write capability; or capacité d'écriture **directe**; ou ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 1842879) - Submitting entity: **Direct** submission Submitting entity: **Direct** submission ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 9665183) ## dirige Used about 19 174 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 261 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 195 · UN documents ≈ 14 713). - A conductor **directs** an orchestra. Un chef d'orchestre **dirige** un orchestre. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#246256](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/246256) [\#8119](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8119)) - A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD **directs** his steps. Le cœur de l’homme médite sa voie, Mais c’est l’Éternel qui **dirige** ses pas. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 16:9) - The security forces which he **directs** have frequently intervened in a violent manner to disperse opposition demonstrations and there have been deaths and injuries. Les forces de sécurité qu'il **dirige** sont fréquemment intervenues d'une manière violente pour disperser des manifestations de l'opposition, et il y a eu des morts et des blessés. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1345032) - The Chair **directs** the work of the Joint Committee. Le président **dirige** les travaux du comité mixte. ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 4530292) - As such, he **directs** government action. À ce titre, il **dirige** l ' action du gouvernement. ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 5256682) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - I must admit confusedly not to know where to **direct** my suspicions. Je dois confusément avouer ne pas savoir où diriger mes soupçons. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#6830705](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6830705) [\#5226903](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5226903)) - Can you **direct** me to the post office? Pouvez-vous m'indiquer la direction du bureau de poste. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and eddiegab · checked, community translation · [\#324556](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/324556) [\#135496](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/135496)) - Can I dial **direct**? Puis-je faire le numéro directement ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#278248](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/278248) [\#129421](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/129421)) ## Grammar Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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