enquêter — French to English

How French enquêter 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: enquêtaient (120), enquêtait (215), enquête (179 143), enquêtent (746), enquêter (27 138), enquêtes (93 559), enquêtez (5), enquêtons (19), enquêté (2 042), enquêtée (14), enquêtées (86), enquêtés (514). By style: everyday 125 · literary 1 · parliamentary 6 559 · legal and administrative 49 963 · UN documents 246 953.

investigate

Used about 192 603 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 103 · parliamentary ≈ 4 327 · legal and administrative ≈ 40 772 · UN documents ≈ 147 402). Forms: investigate, investigated, investigating, investigation, investigations. Meaning: investigate in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Allons enquêter.

  Let's go and investigate.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #2007556 #5685857

• Vous n’enquêtez pas sur ce point.

  You are not investigating it.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 737329

• Parties concernées par les enquêtes

  Parties concerned by the investigations

  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 1308680

• Nombre d ' enquêtes (en moyenne)

  Number of investigations (average)

  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 8620509

• Tom va enquêter.

  Tom is going to investigate.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tras and CK · checked, community translation · #7544346 #7552572

authorities

Used about 1 446 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 110 · legal and administrative ≈ 236 · UN documents ≈ 1 100). Meaning: authorities in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Au contraire, il importe de renforcer les autorités responsables des enquêtes et celles chargées du maintien de l'ordre.

  On the contrary, the investigative authorities and those responsible for law and order must be better looked after and reinforced.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1024980

• Dans ce contexte, la Commission ou les autorités douanières des États membres peuvent participer auxdites enquêtes.

  For this purpose, the Commission or the customs authorities of the Member States may participate in the inquiries.

  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 3756579

• Malgré la bonne foi exprimée par les autorités, les enquêtes judiciaires piétinent de manière inquiétante.

  Despite the good faith expressed by the authorities, alarmingly, judicial inquiries are at a standstill.

  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 27399148

• Nous ne sommes cependant pas là pour exprimer notre seule émotion mais aussi pour poser des exigences claires et avant tout, exiger que les autorités judiciaires compétentes enquêtent sur les circonstances de ce meurtre.

  But our task here is not only to express our shock but also to state our unequivocal demands. Firstly, we demand an enquiry by the prosecuting authorities into the background to this murder.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1987245

• Le 7 novembre 2005, le Secrétaire général a levé l ' immunité juridictionnelle d ' un inspecteur du Corps commun d ' inspection à la demande des autorités policières et judiciaires suisses, qui enquêtaient sur de graves allégations d ' activités criminelles.

  17. On 7 November 2005, the Secretary-General waived the immunity from legal process of a Joint Inspection Unit Inspector at the request of the competent law enforcement authorities.

  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 16219358

police

Used about 7 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7). Meaning: police in the Elamur Dictionary.

• La police mène son enquête.

  The police are looking into it.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #238246 #3515561

• La police enquêtait sur le passé du suspect.

  The police were inquiring into the suspect's past.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CM · checked, community translation · #238371 #11481528

• La police est en train d'enquêter sur sa disparition.

  The police are looking into his disappearance.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #238347 #120059

• La police commença à enquêter sur l'affaire de meurtre.

  The police started to look into the murder case.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #238170 #1069408

• Toutes les enquêtes de police n’aboutissent pas forcément à l’arrestation d’un coupable.

  Not all police investigations necessarily lead to the arrest of a culprit.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gillux and AlanF_US · checked, community translation · #4006493 #3992581

More sentences

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

• Je n'ose pas enquêter trop profondément, de peur de découvrir l'horrible vérité !

  I dare not probe too deeply, lest I uncover the awful truth!

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and kebukebu · checked, community translation · #618674 #1066611

• Nous allons immédiatement enquêter sur l'affaire.

  We'll look into the case at once.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #52242 #1224696

• Nous devons enquêter sur la disparition du médecin.

  We have to look into the disappearance of the doctor.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #49638 #11377435

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