work — English to French

How English work is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: work in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: work (885 858), works (46 426). By style: everyday 3 978 · literary 72 · biblical 593 · parliamentary 59 883 · legal and administrative 33 371 · UN documents 834 387.

travail

Used about 652 556 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 238 · literary ≈ 16 · biblical ≈ 44 · parliamentary ≈ 23 080 · legal and administrative ≈ 18 771 · UN documents ≈ 608 407). Forms: travail, travaille, travaux.

• I work on Monday.

  Je travaille le lundi.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and felix63 · checked, community translation · #6645800 #6393410

• Cherubino works better than Rothschild.”

  Chérubin travaille mieux que Rothschild.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29157

• On the tops of the pillars was lily work. So the work of the pillars was finished.

  Il y avait sur le sommet des colonnes un travail figurant des lis. Ainsi fut achevé l’ouvrage des colonnes.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 7:22

• Our work is not yet complete.

  Notre travail n'est pas encore terminé.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1419199

• Minister of Public Works.

  Ministre des travaux publics.

  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 2705962

œuvres

Used about 14 733 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 41 · biblical ≈ 243 · parliamentary ≈ 4 366 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 390 · UN documents ≈ 8 692).

• I have heard that nothing gives an author so great pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by others.

  J'ai entendu dire que rien ne procure à un auteur un plus grand plaisir que de voir ses œuvres respectueusement citées par d'autres.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #12341552 #12341566

• I will not die, but live, and declare the LORD’s works.

  Je ne mourrai pas, je vivrai, Et je raconterai les œuvres de l’Éternel.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 118:17

• This also applies, of course, when their works are made available on the internet.

  Il en va bien sûr de même lorsque leurs œuvres sont publiées sur l'internet.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1312914

• Grant aid for the release of a non-national European works slate over a given period.

  Octroyer une aide à la sortie d'un catalogue d'œuvres européennes non nationales sur une période donnée.

  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 871501

• According to the available report date of 2007, AGATA represents the rights of 1,136 performers, 69 producers of phonograms, 23 producers of audio-visual works and has signed agreements with 28 allied organisations.

  En 2007, AGATA représentait les droits de 1 136 interprètes, 69 producteurs de phonogrammes, 23 producteurs d ' œuvres audiovisuelles, et avait conclu des accords avec 28 organismes partenaires.

  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 24499591

More sentences

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

• Tom's not well enough to go to work today.

  Tom ne va pas assez bien pour aller travailler aujourd'hui.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by patgfisher and olivier · checked, community translation · #3342399 #5628153

• He began to work to get Congress to reduce taxes.

  Il se mit à œuvrer afin que le Congrès réduisît les impôts.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source_VOA and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · #803300 #2343438

• It'll work itself out in time.

  Ça s'arrangera avec le temps.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Equilingual · checked, community translation · #9038152 #9038501

Grammar

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