travail — French to English

How French travail 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: travail (981 109), travails (10). By style: everyday 2 406 · literary 30 · biblical 81 · parliamentary 52 066 · legal and administrative 27 672 · UN documents 898 864.

work

Used about 667 033 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 415 · literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 27 · parliamentary ≈ 40 134 · legal and administrative ≈ 20 754 · UN documents ≈ 604 690). Forms: work, working. Meaning: work in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Mon travail est monotone.

  My work is monotonous.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and rul · checked, community translation · #13058577 #13593590

• Le premier problème contient la question du travail.

  The first problem contains the question of work.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18276

• Celui qui se relâche dans son travail Est frère de celui qui détruit.

  One who is slack in his work is brother to him who is a master of destruction.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 18:9

• Là, il y a aussi un travail important.

  There is important work to be done in that regard, too.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 993908

• Préparer des programmes de travail.

  To prepare work programs.

  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 4172034

labor

Used about 153 273 times in the texts (literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 37 · parliamentary ≈ 3 254 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 883 · UN documents ≈ 147 087). Forms: labor, labour. Meaning: labor in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Il avait vécu de son travail.

  He had lived by his own labor.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18170

• L’homme sort pour se rendre à son ouvrage, Et à son travail, jusqu’au soir.

  Man goes out to his work, to his labor until the evening.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 104:23

• Le travail en servitude, ou quelle que soit l’appellation qu’on lui donne, constitue une forme d’esclavage.

  Indentured labour by any other term is a form of slavery.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 851187

• Ancien ministre du travail et des affaires sociales.

  Former Minister of Labour and Social Affairs.

  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 3327554

• Le Département de l ' application du code du travail

  The Department of Labor Law Enforcement

  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 7858404

group

Used about 16 343 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 16 343). Meaning: group in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Le Groupe de Rio remercie le Directeur du Centre régional pour le travail remarquable qu ' il a accompli.

  The Rio Group congratulates the Director of the Regional Centre on its great work.

  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 16598930

More sentences

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

• Vous devez être plus poli avec vos collègues de travail.

  You have to be more polite with your coworkers.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan_Cristian and Ioan_Cristian · checked, community translation · #13887081 #13887083

• Nous n'avons pas eu assez de temps pour finir le travail.

  We didn't have enough time to finish the job.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #5651788 #7802660

• Mary est une personne sociable et est bien adaptée à son travail de réceptionniste d'hôtel.

  Mary is a people person and is well-suited to her job as a hotel receptionist.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and patgfisher · checked, community translation · #6302050 #6302135

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