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By style: everyday 80 · literary 10 · biblical 54 · parliamentary 806 · legal and administrative 11 264 · UN documents 74 842. ## instructions Used about 48 070 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 62 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 22 · parliamentary ≈ 302 · legal and administrative ≈ 8 331 · UN documents ≈ 39 350). Forms: instruction, instructions. Meaning: [instructions in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/instructions/). - As-tu lu les **instructions** ? Did you read the **instructions**? ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#3356216](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3356216) [\#6940002](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6940002)) - Je le suivis sur un cap élevé, après qu'il eut donné ses **instructions** au chasseur. I followed him to a headland, after he had given his **instructions** to the hunter. ([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 3258) - Écoutez l’**instruction**, pour devenir sages, Ne la rejetez pas. Hear **instruction**, and be wise. Don’t refuse 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 8:33) - Je vous prie de suivre les **instructions** du Bureau! Would you please follow the Bureau's **instructions**! ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1815306) - Voir **instructions** pour C 06.02 See **instructions** for C 06.02 ([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 4420954) ## education Used about 7 815 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 92 · UN documents ≈ 7 716). Meaning: [education in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/education/). - L'**instruction** est gratuite en Algérie. **Education** is free in Algeria. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10092098](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10092098) [\#11837919](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11837919)) - L'**instruction** des citoyens de l'Union européenne est extrêmement importante. The **education** of citizens in the European Union is very important. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2047117) - \* Utilisation selon le degré d ' **instruction**. \* Use by level of **education**. ([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 3731328) - En Algérie, l'**instruction** est gratuite. In Algeria, **education** is free. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#10092099](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10092099) [\#11837920](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11837920)) - On a donné une impulsion vigoureuse à la recherche, à l' **instruction** et à la formation permanente. Research, **education** and lifelong learning all received a boost. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 35748) ## accordance Used about 781 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 8 · UN documents ≈ 772). Meaning: [accordance in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/accordance/). - Je vendrai le bateau suivant vos **instructions**. I will sell the boat in **accordance** with your orders. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Dejo · checked, community translation · [\#16884](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/16884) [\#549352](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/549352)) - Enfin, et toujours conformément aux **instructions** du Conseil «Environnement» du 9 décembre, la Commission européenne a noué des contacts avec les pays tiers concernés. Finally, and again in **accordance** with the decisions of the Environment Council of 9 December, the Commission has made contact with the third countries involved. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1688828) - Comme l ' expliquent les **instructions**, bien que divers facteurs soient pris en compte, les décisions sont prises dans le respect des obligations juridiques du Canada. As the MDs state, while a broad range of factors will be considered, decisions will be made only in **accordance** with " Canada ' s legal obligations " . ([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 27598331) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Ceci est une **instruction**, pas réellement une phrase descriptive. This is a command, not truly a descriptive sentence. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and zogwarg · checked, community translation · [\#11951617](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11951617) [\#11949707](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11949707)) - Vous savez que nous ne pouvons pas arrêter de parler de sujets scientifiques simplement parce que certaines femmes sans **instruction** ont peur. You know that we cannot stop talking about scientific matters just because some uneducated women are afraid. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nonong and nonong · checked, community translation · [\#10780375](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10780375) [\#10780378](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10780378)) - Marie a reçu l'**instruction** de ne pas faire ça toute seule. Mary was told not to do that by herself. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by genes1s and CF · checked, community translation · [\#6419830](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6419830) [\#13348367](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13348367)) ## 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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