gendarme
Meanings
Noun
1. a member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties
2. firebug (the insect)
3. landjäger (a type of sausage)
Examples6
Les garçons jouaient aux gendarmes et aux voleurs.
The boys played cops and robbers.
Des gendarmes le guettent.
Gendarmes are lying in wait for him.
Les gendarmes cernèrent la maison où il s’était réfugié.
The policemen surrounded the house in which he had been hiding.
Les gendarmes l'ont pris en filature.
The police put him on watch.
Les gendarmes lui ont passé les menottes.
The police put him in handcuffs.
D’ici vingt ans, les États-Unis ne pourront plus être les gendarmes du monde.
In another twenty years, the United States will no longer be able to be the police for the world.