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# agir — French to English

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: agir (48 303), agire (4). By style: everyday 142 · literary 6 · biblical 27 · parliamentary 9 292 · legal and administrative 3 275 · UN documents 35 565.

## act

Used about 23 193 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 95 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 4 840 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 842 · UN documents ≈ 16 415). Forms: act, action. Meaning: [act in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/act/).

- On doit **agir** vite.
  We've got to **act** fast.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sameclaire and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3310197](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3310197) [\#3922817](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3922817))

- Il sentait bien qu'il lui faudrait penser tout à l'heure, et **agir**, mais il attendait, ne voulant même plus comprendre, savoir, se rappeler, par peur, par faiblesse, par lâcheté.
  He was conscious, indeed, that he must presently think and **act**, but he would wait, refusing to understand, to know, to remember, out of fear, weakness, cowardice.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1795)

- Il est urgent d'**agir**.
  It is urgent that we take **action**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 942315)

- L'État actionnaire entend **agir** ainsi en investisseur avisé.
  The State shareholder thus intends to **act** like a prudent investor.
  ([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 826504)

- Il est donc plus impératif que jamais d &apos; **agir**.
  The need for **action** has thus become even more imperative.
  ([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 17996321)

## More sentences

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

- Il doit s'**agir** d'une erreur.
  It must be a mistake.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3178629](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3178629) [\#13393320](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13393320))

- Si tu veux bavasser, il faut être prêt à **agir**.
  If you're going to talk the talk, you've got to be prepared to walk the walk.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and patgfisher · checked, community translation · [\#4566596](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4566596) [\#4567266](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4567266))

- Il est temps pour toi de commencer à **agir** comme un adulte.
  It's time for you to start acting like an adult.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gillux and CK · checked, community translation · [\#10780055](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10780055) [\#13710566](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13710566))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/).

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