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# direction — French to English

How French *direction* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations 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: direction (135 864), directions (6 200). By style: everyday 164 · literary 15 · biblical 20 · parliamentary 7 966 · legal and administrative 14 555 · UN documents 119 344.

## direction

Used about 56 836 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 76 · literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 2 987 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 519 · UN documents ≈ 47 240). Forms: direction, directions. Meaning: [direction in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/direction/).

- Ils viennent dans ma **direction**.
  They're heading in my **direction**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Julien\_PDC and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#10478101](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10478101) [\#10474696](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10474696))

- Cependant, il suivait une **direction**.
  Nevertheless, he followed one given **direction**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28523)

- En cheminant, elles allaient de leurs quatre côtés, et elles ne se tournaient point dans leur marche; mais elles allaient dans la **direction** de la tête, sans se tourner dans leur marche.
  When they went, they went in their four **directions**. They didn’t turn as they went, but to the place where the head looked they followed it. They didn’t turn as they went.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 10:11)

- Ce compromis est un pas dans la bonne **direction**.
  This compromise is a step in the right **direction**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1552518)

- **Directions** des forces d’essai
  **Directions** of test forces
  ([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 5487969)

## directorate

Used about 25 910 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 2 074 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 942 · UN documents ≈ 19 891). Forms: directorate, directorates.

- Le contrôleur général de la police nationale supervise des **directions** régionales ou centrales.
  The general inspector of the national police oversees regional or central **directorates**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Igider and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#13362901](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362901) [\#13362900](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13362900))

- Faisons en sorte que ce va et vient entre différentes **directions** générales ne se produise plus.
  Let there be an end to this jumping from one **Directorate**-General to another.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 223422)

- **Direction** générale du commerce
  **Directorate** General for Trade
  ([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 1212231)

- Conseiller/**Direction** générale Environnement
  Adviser/**Directorate**-General Environment
  ([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 30320249)

- Cela est peut-être dû au fait que différentes **directions** de la Commission sont impliquées.
  The reason for this could be that there are different Commission **directorates** involved.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 78848)

## management

Used about 13 536 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 14 · parliamentary ≈ 332 · legal and administrative ≈ 758 · UN documents ≈ 12 432). Meaning: [management in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/management/).

- Le syndicat a négocié avec la **direction**.
  The union bargained with the **management**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CK · checked, community translation · [\#273961](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/273961) [\#7435382](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7435382))

- Les instances de **direction** de l'agence sont nommées par la Commission.
  The agency' s **management** bodies are appointed by the Commission.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 217145)

- Le représentant peut être un membre du plus haut niveau de la **direction** de l'organisation.
  The top **management** representative may be a member of the top management of the organisation.
  ([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 4373546)

- Il avait donc saisi le Conseil de **direction** de la question.
  It had therefore brought the issue to the Senior **Management** Group.
  ([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 13029882)

- Le désaccord entre le syndicat et la **direction** pourrait mener à la grève.
  The disagreement between the union and **management** could lead to a strike.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gall and CK · checked, community translation · [\#326372](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/326372) [\#1685313](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1685313))

## More sentences

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

- Quelle **direction** prenez-vous ?
  Where are you heading?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#669130](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/669130) [\#474011](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/474011))

- Je ne pense pas que nous voulions prendre cette **direction**.
  I don't think that we want to go down that road.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#7226390](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7226390) [\#3956898](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3956898))

- L'homme a pointé une arme en **direction** de l'agent de police.
  The man aimed a gun at the policeman.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#45295](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/45295) [\#2009774](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2009774))

## 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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