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# police — French to English

How French *police* 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: police (248 384), polices (1 760). By style: everyday 728 · literary 53 · parliamentary 3 955 · legal and administrative 7 189 · UN documents 238 219.

## police

Used about 171 678 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 670 · literary ≈ 43 · parliamentary ≈ 3 296 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 894 · UN documents ≈ 163 776). Forms: police, policies. Meaning: [police in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/police/).

- Où se trouvait la **police** ?
  Where were the **police**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1531029](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1531029) [\#1532780](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1532780))

- --Pourtant le commissaire de **police**....
  “But the commissary of **police**—”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 11586)

- Les agents de **police** ont aussi le droit de manifester!
  **Police** officers have a right to demonstrate too!
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 748535)

- Directeur général de la **police** de Myanmar
  DG Myanmar **Police** Force
  ([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 1727324)

- III. **Police** des Nations Unies
  III. United Nations **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 27001466)

## insurance

Used about 58 227 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 330 · legal and administrative ≈ 824 · UN documents ≈ 57 073). Meaning: [insurance in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/insurance/).

- Comme nous le savons, une partie des coûts de l'achat de nouvelles voitures est couverte par les **polices** d'assurance.
  Some of the cost of buying new cars, as we know, is covered by **insurance** policies.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1008939)

- Revenus attribués aux titulaires de **polices** d’assurance
  Income attributed to **insurance** policy holder
  ([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 1877061)

- Fiches sur les **polices** d &apos; assurance;
  Fact sheets on **insurance** policy;
  ([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 1591763)

- Les compagnies maritimes doivent contracter des **polices** d'assurance responsabilité adéquates pour les tiers et les passagers.
  Shipping companies must take out adequate third party and passenger liability **insurance** policies.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1221936)

- Les montants perçus au titre de **polices** d'assurance seront-ils déduits de l'aide à verser?
  Are **insurance** payments to be deducted from the aid?
  ([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 1092769)

## forces

Used about 41 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 41).

- Nous restons donc - malheureusement, dois-je dire - toujours tributaires des **polices** et forces de l'ordre des États membres.
  So - unfortunately, I have to say - we are always dependent on the **forces** of law and order of the Member States.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1726296)

## More sentences

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

- Il n'y avait pas de **police**.
  No law enforcement was present.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by always and Amastan · checked, community translation · [\#8301623](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8301623) [\#12184876](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12184876))

- Si vous vous perdez en rue, demandez à un agent de **police** !
  If you get lost in the street, ask a policeman.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and adamtrousers · checked, community translation · [\#3530401](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3530401) [\#3530942](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3530942))

- Si tu ne me dis pas ce qui se passe maintenant, je vais appeler la **police**.
  If you don't tell me what's going on right now, I think I'm going to call the cops.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amnafeq and OsoHombre · checked, community translation · [\#8015827](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8015827) [\#12620877](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12620877))

## Grammar

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