investigate — English to French

How English investigate is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

What it means: investigate in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: investigate (35 281), investigates (1 083). By style: everyday 17 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 1 120 · legal and administrative 1 288 · UN documents 33 938.

enquête

Used about 19 285 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 378 · legal and administrative ≈ 512 · UN documents ≈ 18 383). Forms: enquête, enquêter.

• Lorenzo decided to investigate.

  Lorenzo a décidé de faire une enquête.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · #11709559 #11756770

• Perhaps we ought to investigate.

  Nous devrions peut-être mener notre enquête là-dessus.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1398552

• Strengthen the capacity to investigate computer crimes.

  Renforcer la capacité d'enquête sur la criminalité informatique.

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 774534

• The KPK must prosecute a case that it investigates.

  La Commission est tenue de poursuivre lorsqu ' elle enquête.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 25861640

• They are going to investigate the affair.

  Ils vont enquêter sur l'affaire.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #305781 #11223511

plaintes

Used about 2 533 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 58 · UN documents ≈ 2 475).

• The European Ombudsman investigates complaints against the institutions and bodies of the European Union.

  Le Médiateur européen procède à des enquêtes sur des plaintes dirigées contre les institutions et organes de l'Union européenne.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1328953

• 704. The Ombudsman investigates complaints regarding the provision of health care and mental health care for detainees.

  702. Le Médiateur instruit les plaintes concernant les prestations de soins de santé et de santé mentale aux détenus.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 18629010

• Its purpose is to investigate complaints of maladministration by the institutions of the ΕU and by the governments of the Member States.

  Son objectif consiste à examiner les plaintes pour mauvaise administration de la part des institutions de l’UE et des gouvernements des États membres.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 735896

• 48. The Complaints Against Police Office (CAPO) investigates all complaints about the conduct and behaviour of members of the police force.

  Le Bureau des plaintes contre la police (CAPO) examine toutes les plaintes concernant la conduite et le comportement des membres de la police.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 11813084

• These hotlines investigate and refer complaints to the appropriate organisations, police, Internet service providers or hotlines in other countries.

  Ces lignes d’appel enquêtent et transmettent les plaintes aux organisations concernées, à la police, aux fournisseurs de services internet ou aux lignes d’appel d’autres pays.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 813085

examine

Used about 945 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 44 · legal and administrative ≈ 194 · UN documents ≈ 707).

• It also investigates the possibilities for future development of the relations between the European Parliament and the national parliaments.

  Il examine également les possibilités d'un futur développement des relations entre le Parlement européen et les parlements nationaux.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1271551

• The Commission then investigates whether the general considerations put forward below fully apply to the notified measures.

  La Commission examine ensuite si les arguments de base présentés dans la suite sont entièrement applicables aux mesures ainsi communiquées.

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 816146

• The Ombudsman investigates and reports on grievances arising from maladministration.

  Le Médiateur examine les réclamations découlant de cas de mauvaise administration et fait rapport à ce sujet.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 11969718

• It is only by strengthening the role of the ombudsman and also by ensuring impartiality of the constitutional court, which investigates allegations of electoral fraud, that democracy can be protected.

  Ce n'est qu'en renforçant le rôle du médiateur et en garantissant l'impartialité de la cour constitutionnelle, qui examine les allégations de fraude électorale, que la démocratie pourra être protégée.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1053430

• The German cartel investigation, which investigates alleged price fixing from July 2005 to February 2008, is still on-going.

  L'enquête pour entente lancée par les autorités allemandes, qui examine la fixation présumée des prix de juillet 2005 à février 2008, est toujours en cours.

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 2922018

More sentences

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

• You should investigate the fact from a medical viewpoint.

  Vous devriez examiner les faits d'un point de vue médical.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jaxhere and ajira86 · checked, community translation · #28113 #442155

• Maybe the network administrator can investigate why searching for a file takes so long.

  Peut-être que l'administrateur réseau peut chercher pourquoi rechercher un fichier prend tant de temps.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · #6990624 #8571946

• The doctor will investigate your foot.

  Le médecin examinera ton pied.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan_Cristian and Ioan_Cristian · checked, community translation · #14047363 #14047364

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