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Forms: direct, directly. Meaning: [direct in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/direct/). - Je serai **direct**. I'll be **direct**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2247667](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2247667) [\#4693355](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4693355)) - L'ambition en ce temps-là était, dans l'acception **directe** du mot, une course au clocher. Ambition was at that time, in the **direct** acceptation of the word, a race to the steeple. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3577) - Paiements **directs** aux agriculteurs ( **Direct** payments to farmers ( ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1590039) - SUBSTITUTS DE CRÉDIT **DIRECTS** **DIRECT** CREDIT SUBSTITUTES (DCS) ([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 4712574) - d) Aide **directe** aux enfants (d) **Direct** assistance to children ([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 4937592) ## investment Used about 516 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 69 · UN documents ≈ 447). Meaning: [investment in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/investment/). - C'est cette culture que nous exportons dans d'autres pays sous forme de délocalisations et d'investissements **directs**. We export this culture to other countries in the shape of company relocations and massive **investment** programmes. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1801019) - Des questions ont été soulevées quant aux coûts sociaux de programmes qui visent à attirer les investissements étrangers **directs**, par exemple les zones industrielles économiques. 43. Questions have been raised about the social costs of schemes to attract foreign **investment** such as economic processing zones. ([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 6875830) - Mais ce qui manque surtout en Russie, ce sont des investissements **directs** étrangers. À cela s'ajoute une énorme fuite des profits des entreprises russes. But, most importantly, there is a lack of foreign **investment** in the Russian Federation, coupled with a huge drain on the profits of Russia companies. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 131187) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Tom est très **direct**. Tom is very straightforward. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3409120](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3409120) [\#5868707](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5868707)) - Nous le ferons en **direct**. We'll do it live. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1538708](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1538708) [\#1538830](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1538830)) - Le match de football a été diffusé en **direct** à la télévision. The football match was broadcast live on television. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and RudeGuyGames · checked, community translation · [\#6443394](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6443394) [\#10492225](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10492225)) ## 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/). ## 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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