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Forms: instruction, instructions. - Did you read the **instructions**? As-tu lu les **instructions** ? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#3356216](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3356216) [\#6940002](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6940002)) - I followed him to a headland, after he had given his **instructions** to the hunter. Je le suivis sur un cap élevé, après qu'il eut donné ses **instructions** au chasseur. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 3258) - Hear **instruction**, and be wise. Don’t refuse it. Écoutez l’**instruction**, pour devenir sages, Ne la rejetez 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 8:33) - Would you please follow the Bureau's **instructions**! Je vous prie de suivre les **instructions** du Bureau! ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1815306) - See **instructions** for C 06.02 Voir **instructions** pour C 06.02 ([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 4420954) ## ai Used about 1 038 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 13 · UN documents ≈ 1 023). - I have often observed how little young ladies are interested by books of a serious stamp, though written solely for their benefit. It amazes me, I confess; for, certainly, there can be nothing so advantageous to them as **instruction**. J’**ai** souvent remarqué que les jeunes filles ne savent pas s’intéresser aux œuvres sérieuses, écrites cependant pour leur bien. Cela me confond, je l’avoue, car rien ne peut leur faire plus de bien qu’une lecture instructive. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#838504](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/838504) [\#838514](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/838514)) - and say, “How I have hated **instruction**, and my heart despised reproof. Et que tu ne dises: Comment donc **ai**-je pu haïr la correction, Et comment mon cœur a-t-il dédaigné la réprimande? ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 5:12) - I have given **instructions** to my staff to pay close attention to this issue. J'**ai** demandé à mon équipe d'être particulièrement attentive à ce problème. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 200348) - On **instructions** from my Government I wish to inform you of the following: D ' ordre de mon gouvernement, j ' **ai** l ' honneur d ' appeler votre attention sur ce qui suit : ([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 13103173) - I am also dissatisfied by this fact and have given clear and firm **instructions** to my services not to repeat such a mistake again. J'en suis tout aussi peu satisfait et j'**ai** donné à mes services des consignes claires et fermes afin d'éviter que cette erreur ne se reproduise. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1139343) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Consult the **instruction** manual before you do anything! Consultez le mode d'emploi avant de faire quoi que ce soit ! ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lebensfreude and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#13404855](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13404855) [\#10324732](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10324732)) - Consult the **instruction** manual before doing anything! Consultez le mode d'emploi avant de faire quoi que ce soit ! ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Lebensfreude and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#13404854](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13404854) [\#10324732](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10324732)) - You can download the **instruction** manual for the heat exchanger here. Vous pouvez télécharger le mode d'emploi de l'échangeur de chaleur ici. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and MUIRIEL · checked, community translation · [\#457147](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/457147) [\#455127](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/455127)) ## 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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