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# inquiry — English to French

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

What it means: [inquiry in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/inquiry/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: inquiries (10 778), inquiry (25 802). By style: everyday 4 · literary 3 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 1 894 · legal and administrative 1 295 · UN documents 33 383.

## enquête

Used about 21 612 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 1 539 · legal and administrative ≈ 944 · UN documents ≈ 19 126). Forms: enquête, enquêtes.

- The **inquiry** commission will write a report.
  La commission d'**enquête** rédigera un rapport.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tieguy and Julien\_PDC · checked, community translation · [\#13812930](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13812930) [\#8632137](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8632137))

- “Monsieur,” replied the neighbor, “those on the right are the counsellors of the grand chamber; those on the left, the councillors of **inquiry**; the masters in black gowns, the messires in red.”
  --Monsieur, dit le voisin, ce sont les conseillers de la grand'chambre à droite, et les conseillers des **enquêtes** à gauche; les maîtres en robes noires, et les messires en robes rouges.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 4833)

- The administrative **inquiry** is ongoing.
  L'**enquête** administrative est donc en cours.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1744378)

- New period of **inquiry**
  Nouvelle période d’**enquête**
  ([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 2651472)

- C. Discussion on **inquiries** and visits
  C. **Enquêtes** et visites
  ([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 21664612)

## More sentences

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

- What is your field of study, your domain of **inquiry**, your major interest?
  Quel est votre domaine d'étude, votre champ d'investigation, votre intérêt principal ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by halfb1t and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2100051](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2100051) [\#2105457](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2105457))

- Every experience is worthy of **inquiry** and deeper understanding and love.
  Chaque expérience est digne d'investigation et de la compréhension et de l'amour les plus profonds.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10614330](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10614330) [\#10614333](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10614333))

- Now while Peter was very perplexed in himself what the vision which he had seen might mean, behold, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made **inquiry** for Simon’s house, stood before the gate,
  Tandis que Pierre ne savait en lui-même que penser du sens de la vision qu’il avait eue, voici, les hommes envoyés par Corneille, s’étant informés de la maison de Simon, se présentèrent à la porte,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 10:17)

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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