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# guiding — English to French

How English *guiding* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations 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: guiding (20 411). By style: everyday 1 · literary 2 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 679 · legal and administrative 586 · UN documents 19 141.

## directeurs

Used about 8 258 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 99 · legal and administrative ≈ 183 · UN documents ≈ 7 975).

- Moreover, the treaty offers some **guiding** principles.
  Par ailleurs, le traité offre un certain nombre de principes **directeurs**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1219319)

- **Guiding** principles for dialogue
  Principes **directeurs** du dialogue
  ([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 2830605)

- **Guiding** principles on access to basic services for all
  Principes **directeurs** pour l &apos; accès aux services de base pour tous
  ([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 16508675)

- There are a few **guiding** principles that I would like to mention.
  Il y a quelques principes **directeurs** que je voudrais évoquer.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1357509)

- Objectives and **guiding** principles
  Objectifs et principes **directeurs**
  ([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 1421399)

## principe

Used about 3 933 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 283 · legal and administrative ≈ 61 · UN documents ≈ 3 589). Forms: principe, principes.

- That must be the **guiding** principle.
  Tel doit être le **principe** adopté!
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1688910)

- **Guiding** principles for the selection of operations, differentiated, if necessary, by type of actions
  **Principes** régissant la sélection des opérations, différenciés, si nécessaire, par type d'actions
  ([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 3264368)

- These are the **guiding** principles for governance.
  Ce sont les **principes** qui guident la gouvernance.
  ([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 20526731)

- That should be the principle **guiding** what we do.
  Tel doit être le **principe** guidant nos actions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 706484)

- The respect of privacy and civil liberties will be a **guiding** principle throughout the theme.
  Le respect de la vie privée et des libertés civiles constituera un **principe** directeur dans l'ensemble du thème.
  ([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 866482)

## More sentences

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

- It is my **guiding** confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.
  Je suis persuadée que la plus grande erreur en économie, à mon avis, est de considérer cette dernière comme une structure stable et immuable.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#6287097](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6287097) [\#8249979](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8249979))

- Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, **guiding** his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.
  Israël étendit sa main droite et la posa sur la tête d’Éphraïm qui était le plus jeune, et il posa sa main gauche sur la tête de Manassé: ce fut avec intention qu’il posa ses mains ainsi, car Manassé était le premier-né.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · GEN 48:14)

- I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet **guiding** me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.
  Je résolus en mon cœur de livrer ma chair au vin, tandis que mon cœur me conduirait avec sagesse, et de m’attacher à la folie jusqu’à ce que je visse ce qu’il est bon pour les fils de l’homme de faire sous les cieux pendant le nombre des jours de leur vie.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ECC 2:3)

## Grammar

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