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# instructions — English to French

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

What it means: [instructions in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/instructions/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: instructions (36 219). By style: everyday 67 · literary 4 · biblical 7 · parliamentary 481 · legal and administrative 8 542 · UN documents 27 118.

## instructions

Used about 23 875 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 60 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 311 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 118 · UN documents ≈ 16 384).

- 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)

- 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)

- At the same time, some **instructions** must have been updated.
  Dans le même temps, certaines **instructions** ont sans doute été actualisées.
  ([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 10382315)

## More sentences

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

- We didn't get any **instructions**. I guess we'll just muddle through and make the best of things.
  On n'a pas reçu de consignes. Je pense qu'on va se débrouiller et faire de notre mieux.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by weihaiping and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8781016](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8781016) [\#10528814](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10528814))

- Give me some **instructions**, please.
  Donne-moi quelques consignes, s'il te plaît.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#11228833](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11228833) [\#11228895](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11228895))

- The **instructions** weren't clear.
  Les consignes n'étaient pas claires.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by ddnktr and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#10147456](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10147456) [\#11418939](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11418939))

## 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

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