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# investigation — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: investigation (127 491), investigations (59 983). By style: everyday 72 · literary 2 · parliamentary 3 458 · legal and administrative 41 203 · UN documents 142 739.

## enquête

Used about 118 884 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 66 · parliamentary ≈ 2 305 · legal and administrative ≈ 31 761 · UN documents ≈ 84 751). Forms: enquête, enquêtes.

- An **investigation** is ongoing.
  Une **enquête** est en cours.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#4500352](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4500352) [\#4919246](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4919246))

- We had called for an **investigation**.
  Nous avions demandé une **enquête**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1276654)

- Parties concerned by the **investigations**
  Parties concernées par les **enquêtes**
  ([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 1567913)

- (iii) Security-related **investigations**
  iii) **Enquêtes** liées à la sécurité
  ([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 2328720)

- An **investigation** is underway.
  Une **enquête** est en cours.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#5135016](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5135016) [\#4919246](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4919246))

## investigations

Used about 22 749 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 216 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 717 · UN documents ≈ 20 816).

- It will continue to bring up these incidents and to call for **investigations** within the desired timeframe.
  Il continuera à soulever le cas de ces incidents et à réclamer des **investigations** en temps voulu.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 665937)

- Coordinated assessment procedure for clinical **investigations**
  Procédure d'évaluation coordonnée concernant les **investigations** cliniques
  ([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 4313273)

- SIU concluded that the police had duly recorded the complaint and conducted **investigations** into the murder.
  SIU concluded that the police had duly recorded the complaint and conducted **investigations** into the murder.
  ([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 12175355)

- I know that Mr Monti has made certain **investigations**, but they were more concerned with the exchange of currency.
  Je sais qu'il a fait certaines **investigations**, mais celles-ci concernaient davantage le change entre les devises.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 168839)

- make the necessary **investigations** to identify the reasons for the infringements (‘imposed checks’);
  d’effectuer les **investigations** nécessaires pour déterminer les raisons des infractions («vérifications imposées»);
  ([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 5021484)

## police

Used about 4 533 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 72 · UN documents ≈ 4 461).

- Next, there needs to be an **investigation** of the role played by the Kosovo police service in the disturbances.
  Ensuite, il convient d’enquêter sur le rôle joué par les services de **police** du Kosovo dans ces troubles.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 578482)

- The police and public prosecutors &apos; offices are the principal organs empowered to make such **investigations**.
  C &apos; est principalement la **police** et le parquet qui en sont chargés.
  ([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 22273752)

- If the functioning and cooperation of national **investigation** departments are optimalized, there is ample scope for reducing fraud at European level.
  L'optimisation du fonctionnement et de la collaboration des services de **police** nationaux permet d'atténuer la fraude au niveau européen.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1762650)

- It also had the power to carry out direct **investigations** and reported to the Commissioner of Police and the Director of Public Prosecutions.
  Elle a également le pouvoir d &apos; enquêter directement et fait rapport au Directeur de la **police** et au Directeur des poursuites.
  ([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 4835519)

- (b) The injured person is sent to the nearest hospital/health complex for proper treatment and medical **investigation**. \[The Police Regulations of Bengal - 312\];
  (b) The injured person is sent to the nearest hospital/health complex for proper treatment and medical investigation. \[The **Police** Regulations of Bengal - 312\];
  ([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 18500056)

## cours

Used about 2 182 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 36 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 146).

- In 2003, the Commission carried out an **investigation** into the ways in which the regulation had been introduced in the first few years.
  En 2003, la Commission a conduit une étude de la manière dont le règlement avait été mis en application au **cours** des premières années.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 796533)

- TV2’s pricing behaviour during the period under **investigation**
  Politique de prix de TV2 au **cours** de la période examinée
  ([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 2295887)

- do not come from herds where a suspected case of BSE is under **investigation**;
  ne proviennent pas de cheptels où un cas suspect d’ESB est en **cours** d’investigation;
  ([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 3544294)

- However, such a transformation should be based on experience with historic data rather than on data under **investigation**.
  Néanmoins, cette transformation devrait s'appuyer sur des données antérieures plutôt que sur les données en **cours** d'étude.
  ([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 3936330)

- During the formal **investigation** procedure, the Slovak authorities provided further explanations and supplementary contemporary documents.
  Au **cours** de la procédure formelle d'examen, les autorités slovaques ont fourni des explications complémentaires et produit d'autres documents de l'époque.
  ([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 4825412)

## More sentences

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

- They were pioneers in the **investigation** of cancer.
  Ils ont été des pionniers de la recherche sur le cancer.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by marcelostockle and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#1182470](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1182470) [\#11714687](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11714687))

- In computer science, a method of **investigation** based on the progressive approximation of a problem is called a heuristic.
  En informatique, une méthode d'investigation basée sur l'approximation progressive d'un problème est appelée une heuristique.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#10472694](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10472694) [\#10472696](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10472696))

- Am I under **investigation** now?
  Suis-je mis en examen, maintenant ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3732023](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3732023) [\#3814799](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3814799))

## 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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