travaillent — French to English

How French travaillent is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: travaillent (31 472). By style: everyday 127 · literary 1 · biblical 13 · parliamentary 2 493 · legal and administrative 485 · UN documents 28 353.

work

Used about 22 923 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 124 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 2 337 · legal and administrative ≈ 374 · UN documents ≈ 20 083). Forms: work, working. Meaning: work in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Ils travaillent pour moi.

  They work for me.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and CK · checked, community translation · #2549266 #6815531

• Au moment de monter l'escalier, il aperçut de l'autre côté du boulevard, le long du mur désert de la rue de la Barrière des Gobelins, Jondrette enveloppé du par-dessus du «philanthrope», qui parlait à un de ces hommes de mine inquiétante qu'on est convenu d'appeler rôdeurs de barrières; gens à figures équivoques, à monologues suspects, qui ont un air de mauvaise pensée, et qui dorment assez habituellement de jour, ce qui fait supposer qu'ils travaillent la nuit.

  As he was on the point of mounting the staircase, he perceived, on the other side of the boulevard, near the deserted wall skirting the Rue De la Barrière-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the “philanthropist’s” great-coat, engaged in conversation with one of those men of disquieting aspect who have been dubbed by common consent, prowlers of the barriers; people of equivocal face, of suspicious monologues, who present the air of having evil minds, and who generally sleep in the daytime, which suggests the supposition that they work by night.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16512

• Ceux qui travaillent le lin peigné Et qui tissent des étoffes blanches seront confus.

  Moreover those who work in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 19:9

• Ils sont là et ils travaillent clandestinement.

  They are here and they are working illegally.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 658802

• Membres de la famille de l'exploitant qui travaillent dans l'exploitation:

  Members of sole holder's family carrying out farm work for the holding:

  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 3355440

More sentences

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

• Les médecins travaillent du soir au matin.

  The doctor works from morning until night.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and paper1n0 · checked, community translation · #4736784 #1084996

• Ils détruisent mon propre sentier et travaillent à ma perte, Eux à qui personne ne viendrait en aide;

  They mar my path. They promote my destruction without anyone’s help.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 30:13

• Et pourquoi vous inquiéter au sujet du vêtement? Considérez comment croissent les lis des champs: ils ne travaillent ni ne filent;

  Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 6:28

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