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# directive — French to English

How French *directive* 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: directive (202 167), directives (133 902). By style: everyday 5 · parliamentary 40 072 · legal and administrative 149 327 · UN documents 146 665.

## directive

Used about 216 868 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 37 150 · legal and administrative ≈ 139 994 · UN documents ≈ 39 722). Forms: directive, directives.

- Cela enfreindrait la **Directive** Première.
  That would break the Prime **Directive**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#2220041](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2220041) [\#2223139](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2223139))

- Le principe est intégré à la **directive**.
  The principle is contained in the **directive**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 402048)

- **Directives** 2004/9/CE et 2004/10/CE.
  **Directive** 2004/9/EC and Directive 2004/10/EC.
  ([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 1431751)

- Accordance to EU **directive** 1999/36:
  Accordance to EU **directive** 1999/36:
  ([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 12778597)

- Nous avons reçu une nouvelle **directive** du conseil d'administration, hier. Ils veulent que nous nous concentrions sur nos projets les plus visibles.
  We received a new **directive** from the board yesterday. They want us to focus on our most visible projects.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#2337158](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2337158) [\#8506409](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8506409))

## guidelines

Used about 69 335 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 417 · legal and administrative ≈ 9 333 · UN documents ≈ 59 583).

- Tom a suivi les **directives**.
  Tom followed the **guidelines**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tras and CK · checked, community translation · [\#7544399](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7544399) [\#7554368](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7554368))

- Jusqu'ici, les **directives** relatives aux régions montagneuses étaient uniquement basées, sur le plan juridique, sur les politiques agricoles.
  So far, **guidelines** for hill and mountain areas were based, in law, solely on agricultural policies.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1131666)

- les **directives** techniques internationales sur les munitions;
  International Ammunition Technical **Guidelines**;
  ([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 4555593)

- **Directives** relatives à la signalisation
  **Guidelines** for Waterway Signs
  ([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 28075301)

- Ce sont uniquement des **directives**, non des règles absolues.
  These are just **guidelines**, not hard and fast rules.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by U2FS and darinmex · checked, community translation · [\#950973](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/950973) [\#951046](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/951046))

## council

Used about 417 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 417). Meaning: [council in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/council/).

- Je demanderais que le Conseil délibère lui aussi dans les meilleurs délais sur cette **directive**.
  My plea to the **Council** would be that it should debate this regulation as soon as possible.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 68485)

## More sentences

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

- Nous reçûmes des **directives** sur comment réaliser un panier en bambou.
  We received instructions on how to make a bamboo basket.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#249068](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/249068) [\#1619028](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1619028))

- En ce qui concerne la sécurité, je crois que l’adoption de la **directive** représente un pas en avant dans la lutte contre le terrorisme et d’autres infractions graves.
  From the point of view of security, I believe that adopting it is an essential step in the fight against terrorism and other serious crimes.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 755499)

- Je voudrais dire à M. Jarzembowski que cette **directive** s’avérerait catastrophique pour les emplois.
  I want to say to Mr Jarzembowski that this law would be devastating for jobs.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 761017)

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