police — English to French

How English police is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

What it means: police in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: police (267 710), polices (881). By style: everyday 778 · literary 62 · parliamentary 5 335 · legal and administrative 3 822 · UN documents 258 594.

police

Used about 221 584 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 697 · literary ≈ 45 · parliamentary ≈ 4 338 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 703 · UN documents ≈ 212 801). Forms: police, politiques.

• Where were the police?

  Où se trouvait la police ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #1531029 #1532780

• “But the commissary of police—”

  --Pourtant le commissaire de police....

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11586

• Police officers have a right to demonstrate too!

  Les agents de police ont aussi le droit de manifester!

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 748535

• Chief of Police Headquarters

  Chef d'état-major de la police

  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 1831824

• III. United Nations police

  III. Police des Nations Unies

  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 27001466

More sentences

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

• Tom doesn't have a police record.

  Tom a un casier judiciaire vierge.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano_ and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #14037556 #11913951

• Which way do I go to get to the police station?

  Quel est le chemin pour se rendre à la gendarmerie ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Adrien_FR · checked, community translation · #12927276 #11598567

• The police officers arrested the burglar.

  Les policiers ont arrêté le cambrioleur.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #400569 #11276910

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