travailler — French to English

How French travailler is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: travaillaient (3 096), travaillait (2 357), travaille (16 444), travaillent (31 472), travailler (54 127), travailles (91), travaillez (178), travaillons (2 328), travaillé (11 891), travaillée (227), travaillées (1 287), travaillés (1 021). By style: everyday 2 368 · literary 19 · biblical 83 · parliamentary 16 073 · legal and administrative 5 234 · UN documents 100 742.

work

Used about 92 636 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 213 · literary ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 46 · parliamentary ≈ 12 828 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 489 · UN documents ≈ 74 046). Forms: work, worked, working. Meaning: work in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Je travaille la nuit.

  I work at night.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #5856386 #1341588

• Puis il travaillait.

  Then he set to work.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 274

• Ou bien, est-ce que moi seul et Barnabas nous n’avons pas le droit de ne point travailler?

  Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not work?

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 9:6

• J' ai travaillé sur des échelles.

  I worked on ladders.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 206784

• Nombre de jours travaillés

  Number of days worked.

  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 5036430

hours

Used about 2 345 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · literary ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 2 338).

• Elle travaille de longues heures.

  She works long hours.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · #1829495 #1830937

• Il avait ainsi posé le problème de sa vie: travailler le moins possible du travail matériel pour travailler le plus possible du travail impalpable; en d'autres termes, donner quelques heures à la vie réelle, et jeter le reste dans l'infini.

  He had thus propounded the problem of his life: to toil as little as possible at material labor, in order to toil as much as possible at the labor which is impalpable; in other words, to bestow a few hours on real life, and to cast the rest to the infinite.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14905

• Moyenne des heures travaillés par semaine

  Average Hours of Work Per Week

  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 13442196

• Nombre de jours travaillés dans le mois

  Regular work hours Number of work-days in month

  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 7616361

• Nombre moyen d ' heures travaillées en tout (travail rémunéré ou non), selon le contexte familial

  Average hours spent in total work (paid and unpaid work), by family context

  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 29696990

More sentences

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

• Nous commençâmes à travailler à un nouveau projet.

  We began on a new project.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #22888 #814743

• Elle l'exhorta à travailler plus fort.

  She urged him to study harder.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #887483 #1348339

• S'il ne travaille pas plus assidûment, il y a possibilité qu'il perde sa place.

  He is in danger of losing his position unless he works harder.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by dominiko and CK · checked, community translation · #293134 #131453

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