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Ceci concerne **directement** Tom. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3725272](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3725272) [\#5493348](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5493348)) - “And does she go from Suez **directly** to Bombay?” --Et de Suez, ce bateau va **directement** à Bombay? demanda Fix. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 327) - But it is not **directly** linked to this very specific Greek problem. Elle n'est toutefois pas **directement** liée à ce problème grec très spécifique. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1955822) - ‘from Algeria, either **directly** or after transiting through Morocco or Tunisia’, «en provenance d'Algérie, soit **directement** soit après avoir transité par le Maroc ou la Tunisie» ([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 4172447) - :: 12 women, or 20 per cent of the total, were elected **directly**. 12 femmes (20% ) ont été élues **directement**. Elues directes ([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 8993305) ## tout Used about 232 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 231). - Jean Valjean had beside him the building whose roof had served him as a means of descent, a pile of fagots, and, behind the fagots, **directly** against the wall, a stone statue, whose mutilated face was no longer anything more than a shapeless mask which loomed vaguely through the gloom. Jean Valjean avait à côté de lui la bâtisse dont le toit lui avait servi pour descendre, un tas de fagots, et derrière les fagots, **tout** contre le mur, une statue de pierre dont la face mutilée n'était plus qu'un masque informe qui apparaissait vaguement dans l'obscurité. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9903) - Ridiculous, as if taken **directly** from the old communist period: turnout - 99%; support for the new constitution - 93%. **Tout** simplement ridicules, sortis tout droit de l'ère communiste: taux de participation - 99 %; soutien à la nouvelle Constitution - 93 %. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1104700) - **Directly** after the Council, the British Government said: 20% is good, but we want something even more ambitious. **Tout** de suite après le Conseil, le gouvernement britannique a déclaré: 20 % c'est bien, mais nous voulons quelque chose d'encore plus ambitieux. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 915135) ## règlement Used about 115 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 115). - It is possible that, **directly** as a result of these adjustments to the Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament, the problems that we debate will be resolved more quickly. Il se peut qu'en conséquence directe de ces ajustements que nous allons apporter au **règlement** du Parlement européen, les problèmes dont nous débattons trouvent une solution plus rapide. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1420486) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Tom sat down and told me **directly**: "I'm gay." Tom s’assit et me lança de but en blanc : « Je suis gay. » ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Jenn and gillux · checked, community translation · [\#3814801](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3814801) [\#3806799](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3806799)) - The US won't **directly** defend Taiwan. Les Etats-Unis ne défendront pas Taïwan de manière directe. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and always · checked, community translation · [\#11071614](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11071614) [\#12480448](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12480448)) - I looked **directly** into his eyes. Je l'ai regardé droit dans les yeux. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3467907](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3467907) [\#3473568](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3473568)) ## 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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