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# arrested — English to French

How English *arrested* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: arrested (46 260). By style: everyday 206 · literary 4 · biblical 9 · parliamentary 958 · legal and administrative 606 · UN documents 44 477.

## arrêté

Used about 24 809 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 107 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 240 · legal and administrative ≈ 366 · UN documents ≈ 24 092). Forms: arrested, arrêté.

- You **arrested** the criminals.
  Tu as **arrêté** les criminels.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#13068328](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13068328) [\#2913761](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2913761))

- “Would you like to be **arrested** as his accomplice?”
  --Voulez-vous donc être **arrêté** comme son complice?»
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1493)

- He even tried to profane the temple, and we **arrested** him.
  et qui même a tenté de profaner le temple. Et nous l’avons **arrêté**. Nous avons voulu le juger selon notre loi;
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 24:6)

- They could have **arrested** him and tried him.
  Il aurait pu être **arrêté** et traduit en justice.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 577970)

- **Arrested** in 2007 and was in custody in Pakistan.
  **Arrêté** en 2007 et détenu au Pakistan.
  ([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 4154496)

## arrêtée

Used about 16 447 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 60 · parliamentary ≈ 559 · legal and administrative ≈ 76 · UN documents ≈ 15 752). Forms: arrêtée, arrêtées, arrêtés.

- They've been **arrested**.
  Elles ont été **arrêtées**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#2243716](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2243716) [\#2388351](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2388351))

- She was re-**arrested** at the end of the year.
  Elle fut graciée en 2007 et **arrêtée** une seconde fois à la fin de l'année.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1200412)

- Grape must with fermentation prevented or **arrested** by the addition of alcohol
  Moûts de raisin dont la fermentation a été empêchée ou **arrêtée** par addition d'alcool
  ([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 203744)

- Nearly 80 members of civil society were **arrested**.
  Près de 80 personnes appartenant à la société civile ont été **arrêtées**.
  ([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 12149125)

- The three were **arrested**.
  Les trois furent **arrêtés**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4495737](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4495737) [\#6385325](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6385325))

## personnes

Used about 45 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 20 · legal and administrative ≈ 25).

- Over 600 people were **arrested** and imprisoned.
  Plus de six cents **personnes** ont ainsi été interpellées et emprisonnées.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1480970)

- Transfer of persons **arrested** and detained with a view to their prosecution
  Transfert des **personnes** appréhendées et retenues en vue de l’exercice de poursuites judiciaires
  ([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 2499290)

- The five were **arrested** without charge for over a year, tortured and sentenced without due process.
  Ces cinq **personnes** ont été détenues plus d'un an sans chef d'inculpation, torturées et condamnées sans procès équitable.
  ([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 3480405)

## on

Used about 20 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 20).

- We saw young Chinese people being **arrested** for surfing the Internet.
  **On** assiste à l'arrestation de jeunes chinois qui naviguent sur Internet.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1946747)

## More sentences

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

- I could have you **arrested**.
  Je pourrais vous faire arrêter.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by bandeirante and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3422675](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3422675) [\#3422685](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3422685))

- They've been **arrested**.
  Elles ont été coffrées.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#2243716](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2243716) [\#13915042](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13915042))

- I get **arrested** from time to time.
  Je me fais arrêter, de temps à autre.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2329566](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2329566) [\#2424505](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2424505))

## Grammar

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