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# enquêter — French to English

How French *enquêter* 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: enquêtaient (120), enquêtait (215), enquête (179 143), enquêtent (746), enquêter (27 138), enquêtes (93 559), enquêtez (5), enquêtons (19), enquêté (2 042), enquêtée (14), enquêtées (86), enquêtés (514). By style: everyday 125 · literary 1 · parliamentary 6 559 · legal and administrative 49 963 · UN documents 246 953.

## investigate

Used about 192 603 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 103 · parliamentary ≈ 4 327 · legal and administrative ≈ 40 772 · UN documents ≈ 147 402). Forms: investigate, investigated, investigating, investigation, investigations. Meaning: [investigate in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/investigate/).

- Allons **enquêter**.
  Let's go and **investigate**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2007556](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2007556) [\#5685857](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5685857))

- Vous n’**enquêtez** pas sur ce point.
  You are not **investigating** it.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 737329)

- Parties concernées par les **enquêtes**
  Parties concerned by the **investigations**
  ([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 1308680)

- Nombre d &apos; **enquêtes** (en moyenne)
  Number of **investigations** (average)
  ([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 8620509)

- Tom va **enquêter**.
  Tom is going to **investigate**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tras and CK · checked, community translation · [\#7544346](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7544346) [\#7552572](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7552572))

## authorities

Used about 1 446 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 110 · legal and administrative ≈ 236 · UN documents ≈ 1 100). Meaning: [authorities in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/authorities/).

- Au contraire, il importe de renforcer les autorités responsables des **enquêtes** et celles chargées du maintien de l'ordre.
  On the contrary, the investigative **authorities** and those responsible for law and order must be better looked after and reinforced.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1024980)

- Dans ce contexte, la Commission ou les autorités douanières des États membres peuvent participer auxdites **enquêtes**.
  For this purpose, the Commission or the customs **authorities** of the Member States may participate in the inquiries.
  ([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 3756579)

- Malgré la bonne foi exprimée par les autorités, les **enquêtes** judiciaires piétinent de manière inquiétante.
  Despite the good faith expressed by the **authorities**, alarmingly, judicial inquiries are at a standstill.
  ([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 27399148)

- Nous ne sommes cependant pas là pour exprimer notre seule émotion mais aussi pour poser des exigences claires et avant tout, exiger que les autorités judiciaires compétentes **enquêtent** sur les circonstances de ce meurtre.
  But our task here is not only to express our shock but also to state our unequivocal demands. Firstly, we demand an enquiry by the prosecuting **authorities** into the background to this murder.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1987245)

- Le 7 novembre 2005, le Secrétaire général a levé l &apos; immunité juridictionnelle d &apos; un inspecteur du Corps commun d &apos; inspection à la demande des autorités policières et judiciaires suisses, qui **enquêtaient** sur de graves allégations d &apos; activités criminelles.
  17. On 7 November 2005, the Secretary-General waived the immunity from legal process of a Joint Inspection Unit Inspector at the request of the competent law enforcement **authorities**.
  ([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 16219358)

## police

Used about 7 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7). Meaning: [police in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/police/).

- La police mène son **enquête**.
  The **police** are looking into it.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#238246](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/238246) [\#3515561](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3515561))

- La police **enquêtait** sur le passé du suspect.
  The **police** were inquiring into the suspect's past.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CM · checked, community translation · [\#238371](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/238371) [\#11481528](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11481528))

- La police est en train d'**enquêter** sur sa disparition.
  The **police** are looking into his disappearance.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#238347](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/238347) [\#120059](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/120059))

- La police commença à **enquêter** sur l'affaire de meurtre.
  The **police** started to look into the murder case.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#238170](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/238170) [\#1069408](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1069408))

- Toutes les **enquêtes** de police n’aboutissent pas forcément à l’arrestation d’un coupable.
  Not all **police** investigations necessarily lead to the arrest of a culprit.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by gillux and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#4006493](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4006493) [\#3992581](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3992581))

## More sentences

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

- Je n'ose pas **enquêter** trop profondément, de peur de découvrir l'horrible vérité !
  I dare not probe too deeply, lest I uncover the awful truth!
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and kebukebu · checked, community translation · [\#618674](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/618674) [\#1066611](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1066611))

- Nous allons immédiatement **enquêter** sur l'affaire.
  We'll look into the case at once.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#52242](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/52242) [\#1224696](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1224696))

- Nous devons **enquêter** sur la disparition du médecin.
  We have to look into the disappearance of the doctor.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#49638](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/49638) [\#11377435](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11377435))

## Grammar

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

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