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# directive — English to French

How English *directive* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: directive (189 109), directives (23 565). By style: everyday 2 · parliamentary 39 171 · legal and administrative 147 186 · UN documents 26 315.

## directive

Used about 206 780 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 35 907 · legal and administrative ≈ 145 653 · UN documents ≈ 25 219). Forms: directive, directives.

- That would break the Prime **Directive**.
  Cela enfreindrait la **Directive** Première.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2220041](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2220041) [\#2223139](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2223139))

- The principle is contained in the **directive**.
  Le principe est intégré à la **directive**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 402048)

- Repealed **Directive** with its successive amendments
  **Directive** abrogée et ses modifications successives
  ([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 2556131)

- L’EXAMEN DES **DIRECTIVES** POUR
  L’EXAMEN DES **DIRECTIVES** POUR
  ([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 4137824)

- We received a new **directive** from the board yesterday. They want us to focus on our most visible projects.
  Nous avons reçu une nouvelle **directive** du conseil d'administration, hier. Ils veulent que nous nous concentrions sur nos projets les plus visibles.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#2337158](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2337158) [\#8506409](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8506409))

## More sentences

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

- This **directive** is also of great importance for international cooperation.
  Cette dernière est également d’une grande importance pour la coopération internationale.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 746983)

- The **directive** has opened up many possibilities, both for consumers and for entrepreneurs.
  Elle a ouvert de nombreuses possibilités, à la fois pour les consommateurs et les entrepreneurs.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1299384)

- The minimum requirements specified in that **directive** are rather low and the number of exceptions rather high.
  Les normes minimales qui y figurent sont plutôt basses et le nombre d'exceptions, plutôt élevé.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1866950)

## Grammar

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