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# arrestation — French to English

How French *arrestation* 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: arrestation (27 859), arrestations (10 153). By style: everyday 19 · literary 6 · parliamentary 1 111 · legal and administrative 786 · UN documents 36 090.

## arrest

Used about 33 742 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 19 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 1 018 · legal and administrative ≈ 745 · UN documents ≈ 31 955). Forms: arrest, arrests. Meaning: [arrest in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/arrest/).

- Suis-je en état d'**arrestation** ?
  Am I under **arrest**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#953091](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/953091) [\#1314042](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1314042))

- Javert se levait au moment où l'exprès lui remit l'ordre d'**arrestation** et le mandat d'amener.
  Javert was just getting out of bed when the messenger handed him the order of **arrest** and the command to produce the prisoner.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 6424)

- Une **arrestation** de plus au Maroc.
  Yet another **arrest** in Morocco.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1073520)

- (depuis son **arrestation** en novembre 2019)
  (since his **arrest** in November 2019)
  ([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 5242037)

- **Arrestations** et détentions arbitraires
  Arbitrary **arrests** and detentions
  ([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 18235791)

## arbitrary

Used about 376 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 376). Meaning: [arbitrary in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/arbitrary/).

- Une telle coopération est cruciale pour mettre fin à des atteintes telles que le recours à une force excessive, les exécutions sommaires et les **arrestations** arbitraires.
  Such cooperation was crucial to end abuses such as the excessive use of force, summary executions and **arbitrary** detention, among others.
  ([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 22197800)

## detention

Used about 376 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 376). Meaning: [detention in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/detention/).

- **Arrestations** et torture en Cisjordanie
  **Detention** and torture in the West Bank
  ([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 21590392)

## More sentences

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

- Et si Passepartout eût été moins préoccupé de son affaire, il aurait aperçu, dans un coin du prétoire, le détective, qui suivait le débat avec un intérêt facile à comprendre,--car à Calcutta, comme à Bombay, comme à Suez, le mandat d'**arrestation** lui manquait encore!
  Had Passepartout been a little less preoccupied, he would have espied the detective ensconced in a corner of the court-room, watching the proceedings with an interest easily understood; for the warrant had failed to reach him at Calcutta, as it had done at Bombay and Suez.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne 80 days, row 1105)

- Certains gouvernements européens ciblent des personnes par des procédures d’**arrestation** et de fouille basées entièrement sur le profilage racial.
  Certain EU governments are targeting individuals through stop-and-search procedures based entirely upon racial profiling.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 712019)

- La dernière fois qu'ils l'ont vu, c'est lors de son **arrestation** par la police.
  The last time they saw him alive he was in police custody.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1609005)

## Grammar

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