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# 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](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/investigate/).

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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#11709559](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11709559) [\#11756770](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11756770))

- Perhaps we ought to **investigate**.
  Nous devrions peut-être mener notre **enquête** là-dessus.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](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 774534)

- The KPK must prosecute a case that it **investigates**.
  La Commission est tenue de poursuivre lorsqu &apos; elle **enquête**.
  ([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 25861640)

- They are going to **investigate** the affair.
  Ils vont **enquêter** sur l'affaire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#305781](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/305781) [\#11223511](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/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](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](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 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](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](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 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](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](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 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](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 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](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](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 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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by jaxhere and ajira86 · checked, community translation · [\#28113](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28113) [\#442155](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#6990624](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6990624) [\#8571946](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8571946))

- The doctor will **investigate** your foot.
  Le médecin examinera ton pied.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#14047363](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14047363) [\#14047364](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14047364))

## Grammar

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