task — English to French

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

What it means: task in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: task (115 338), tasks (59 125). By style: everyday 107 · literary 9 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 10 672 · legal and administrative 17 184 · UN documents 146 490.

tâche

Used about 82 983 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 86 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 6 003 · legal and administrative ≈ 11 277 · UN documents ≈ 65 615). Forms: tâche, tâches.

• What are my tasks?

  Quelles sont mes tâches ?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lukaszpp and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #464500 #468608

• But time was passing away; night came on; the street noises ceased; my uncle, bending over his task, noticed nothing, not even Martha half opening the door; he heard not a sound, not even that excellent woman saying:

  Cependant le temps s'écoulait; la nuit se fit; les bruits de la rue s'apaisèrent; mon oncle, toujours courbé sur sa tâche, ne vit rien, pas même la bonne Marthe qui entr'ouvrit la porte; il n'entendit rien, pas même la voix de cette digne servante, disant:

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 328

• It is true that it was not an easy task.

  Il est vrai que ce ne fut pas une tâche aisée.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 810049

• The group's task will be:

  Le groupe a pour tâche:

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 772145

• (a) Detailed tasks to be performed;

  a) Détail des tâches à réaliser;

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 21816508

travail

Used about 11 378 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 334 · legal and administrative ≈ 358 · UN documents ≈ 10 682).

• To rule a country is no easy task.

  Gouverner un pays n'est pas un travail aisé.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sysko · checked, community translation · #1395381 #1394144

• She has had a very difficult task; getting a consensus on this issue is impossible.

  Elle a réalisé un travail très difficile ; il est impossible de parvenir à un consensus sur cette question.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 443001

• The amount of the fee shall depend on the complexity of the certification task and the workload involved.

  Le montant des redevances est fonction de la complexité de l’opération de certification et de la charge de travail correspondante.

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 659758

• Arctic Council task force for institutional issues Education

  Groupe de travail du Conseil de l ' Arctique sur les questions institutionnelles

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 23833033

• We did not expect him to finish the task in so short a time.

  Nous ne nous attendions pas à ce qu'il termine le travail en si peu de temps.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and Barbiche0 · checked, community translation · #252320 #352937

ses

Used about 6 690 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 222 · legal and administrative ≈ 358 · UN documents ≈ 6 104).

• Although he was writing carefully, he had many mistakes in his writing task.

  Bien qu'il ait écrit rapidement, il avait beaucoup d'erreurs dans ses écritures.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mahdiye and NomadSoul · checked, community translation · #1005663 #1007500

• He had been duteous over his tasks for fear of punishment, and had got through his legal studies with credit because his existence was tranquil.

  Il avait fait ses classes avec soin, pour n'être pas puni, et terminé ses études de droit avec régularité parce que son existence était calme.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1801

• British Conservatives are supportive of the UN in its many difficult tasks but not of EU military adventures.

  Les conservateurs britanniques soutiennent l’ONU dans ses missions nombreuses et difficiles, mais non les aventures militaires de l’UE.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 795347

• Europol shall hold data in data files only for as long as is necessary for the performance of its tasks.

  Les données contenues dans les fichiers ne doivent être conservées à Europol que le temps nécessaire pour lui permettre de remplir ses fonctions.

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 1674858

• The Executive Committee may establish sub-committees as it deems necessary to assist it in carrying out its tasks.

  Le Comité exécutif peut instituer les souscomités qu ' il juge nécessaires pour l ' aider dans l ' accomplissement de ses fonctions.

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 24563525

mission

Used about 5 910 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 889 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 969 · UN documents ≈ 3 052).

• Enlargement challenges all of us to rediscover Europe's essential task.

  L'élargissement nous pousse tous à redécouvrir la mission essentielle de l'Europe.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1903409

• The tasks of the group shall be as follows:

  Le groupe a pour mission:

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 3198090

• To discharge any task assigned to it by the King in the above-mentioned field;

  - Accomplir toute mission que le Souverain lui confie dans le domaine précité;

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 9408377

• As a result, the European Parliament is faced with an almost impossible task.

  De la sorte, le Parlement européen est confronté à une mission quasi impossible.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 15555

• any other activity necessary to fulfil its principal task.

  toute autre activité nécessaire à l’accomplissement de sa mission principale.

  DGT-TM v2021 · 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 4844259

More sentences

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

• This is no easy task.

  Ce n'est pas une mince affaire.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #5752342 #528877

• It's a tough task.

  C'est la croix et la bannière.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Alex_M and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #12804157 #1603932

• Giving up drinking is not an easy task.

  Cesser de boire n'est pas une mince affaire !

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #5201452 #5199391

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