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# droit — French to English

How French *droit* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: droit (925 031), droite (13 789), droites (404), droits (1 478 586). By style: everyday 922 · literary 146 · biblical 403 · parliamentary 100 091 · legal and administrative 124 632 · UN documents 2 191 616.

## right

Used about 1 387 959 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 651 · literary ≈ 101 · biblical ≈ 182 · parliamentary ≈ 76 506 · legal and administrative ≈ 43 491 · UN documents ≈ 1 267 028). Forms: right, rights. Meaning: [right in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/right/).

- C'est mon **droit** !
  It's my **right**!
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#12548146](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12548146) [\#12548156](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12548156))

- Le **droit** terrassant le fait.
  **Right** overthrowing the fact.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18051)

- N’avons-nous pas le **droit** de manger et de boire?
  Have we no **right** to eat and to drink?
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 9:4)

- (Applaudissements de la **droite**)
  (Applause from the **right**)
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 221094)

- Actifs liés au **droit** d’utilisation
  **Right**-of-use assets
  ([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 5314574)

## straight

Used about 285 489 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 72 · literary ≈ 20 · biblical ≈ 18 · parliamentary ≈ 1 150 · legal and administrative ≈ 33 105 · UN documents ≈ 251 123). Meaning: [straight in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/straight/).

- Il trace des lignes **droites**.
  He draws **straight** lines.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and belgavox · checked, community translation · [\#1723250](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1723250) [\#959354](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/959354))

- La rue était **droite** derrière lui.
  The street was **straight** in his rear.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9736)

- Pour crier aux passants, Qui vont **droit** leur chemin:
  to call to those who pass by, who go **straight** on their ways,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 9:15)

- La Croatie entame la dernière ligne **droite**.
  Croatia is in the home **straight**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1339016)

- Lames de scies **droites** pour le travail des métaux
  **Straight** saw blades for working metal
  ([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 1218942)

## human

Used about 11 415 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 11 415). Meaning: [human in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/human/).

- Ressources humaines : composante 2 - état de **droit**
  **Human** resources for component 2: Rule of law
  ([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 10109394)

## hand

Used about 1 230 times in the texts (literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 575 · legal and administrative ≈ 649). Meaning: [hand in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/hand/).

- Ton nom gravé d'étapes en étapes conduit **droit** à son but le voyageur assez audacieux pour te suivre, et, au centre même de notre planète, il se trouvera encore inscrit de ta propre main.
  Your name, graven from stage to stage, leads the bold follower of your footsteps to the very centre of our planet's core, and there again we shall find your own name written with your own **hand**.
  ([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 3572)

- Ne refuse pas un bienfait à celui qui y a **droit**, Quand tu as le pouvoir de l’accorder.
  Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your **hand** to do it.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 3:27)

- La main gauche ignore ce que fait la main **droite**.
  The one **hand** does not know what the other is doing.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1865938)

- Le temps nécessaire pour assurer manuellement la fermeture complète de la porte ne doit pas dépasser 90 secondes, le navire étant en position **droite**;
  The time necessary for the complete closure of the door, when operated by **hand** gear, shall not exceed 90 seconds with the ship in upright position;
  ([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 5160487)

- Quand elle fut passée, il se mit à redescendre l'escalier, avec la lenteur qu'il avait vue au spectre, se croyant spectre lui-même, hagard, les cheveux tout **droits**, sa lampe éteinte toujours à la main; et, tout en descendant les degrés en spirale, il entendait distinctement dans son oreille une voix qui riait et qui répétait:
  When she had passed on, he began to descend the staircase again, with the slowness which he had observed in the spectre, believing himself to be a spectre too, haggard, with hair on end, his extinguished lamp still in his **hand**; and as he descended the spiral steps, he distinctly heard in his ear a voice laughing and repeating,—
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 5988)

## left

Used about 3 times in the texts (literary ≈ 3). Meaning: [left in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/left/).

- Ces hommes laissaient aux partis politiques la question des **droits**, ils s'occupaient de la question du bonheur.
  These men **left** to political parties the question of rights, they occupied themselves with the question of happiness.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18264)

- En même temps il tendit son bras et posa sur la chair nue le ciseau ardent qu'il tenait dans sa main **droite** par le manche de bois.
  At the same moment he extended his arm, and laid the glowing chisel which he held in his **left** hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 17762)

## More sentences

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

- Il a obtenu un diplôme en **droit**.
  He got a master's degree in law.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by suika and CK · checked, community translation · [\#303656](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/303656) [\#353481](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/353481))

- Vous n'avez pas le **droit** d'assister à la réunion.
  You are not entitled to attend the meeting.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Sbgodin and mccarras · checked, community translation · [\#16241](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/16241) [\#1850443](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1850443))

- Je suis étudiante en **droit**.
  I'm a law student.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5859388](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5859388) [\#6385290](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6385290))

## 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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