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# effort — English to French

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

What it means: [effort in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/effort/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: effort (84 820), efforts (474 930). By style: everyday 216 · literary 37 · biblical 1 · parliamentary 22 936 · legal and administrative 8 599 · UN documents 527 961.

## effort

Used about 356 059 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 193 · literary ≈ 29 · parliamentary ≈ 18 874 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 987 · UN documents ≈ 329 976). Forms: effort, efforts.

- It's a team **effort**.
  C'est un **effort** collectif.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by shekitten and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#8582203](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8582203) [\#8582195](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8582195))

- Éponine made a final **effort**.
  Éponine tenta un dernier **effort**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22066)

- **Efforts** must be coordinated to resolve this problem.
  Les **efforts** doivent être coordonnés afin de pouvoir résoudre ce problème.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1561017)

- 10 % of the fishing **effort**
  10 % de l'**effort** de pêche
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 439329)

- Continuous **effort** \[H.c.1\]
  **Effort** ininterrompu \[H.c.1\]
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 15353397)

## tout

Used about 38 950 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 5 · legal and administrative ≈ 448 · UN documents ≈ 38 497).

- It's just not worth the **effort**.
  Cela n'en vaut **tout** simplement pas la peine.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2582584](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2582584) [\#13389074](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13389074))

- They shall make every **effort** to assist the EUSR in the implementation of the mandate.
  Ceux-ci mettent **tout** en œuvre pour assister le RSUE dans l'exécution de son mandat.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 2801049)

- Every **effort** must be made to apprehend them and bring them to trial.
  **Tout** doit être fait pour appréhender ces individus et les juger.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 9592304)

- He made every **effort** to pass the exam.
  Il a fait **tout** son possible pour réussir l'examen.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Jesse and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#298250](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/298250) [\#132385](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/132385))

- The Union shall make its best **efforts** in assisting the Republic of Moldova in the implementation of the roadmap.
  L'Union met **tout** en œuvre pour aider la République de Moldavie à appliquer cette feuille de route.
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 125979)

## More sentences

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

- He is putting all his **effort** into the service of the business.
  Il met toute sa capacité au service de l'affaire.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by eadbannon and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1214907](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1214907) [\#989313](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/989313))

- That's worth the **effort**.
  Ça vaut le coup.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Orange and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#12877037](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12877037) [\#10605060](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10605060))

- Make every **effort** to enter through the narrow door.
  Efforcez-vous d'entrer par la porte étroite.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#11758625](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11758625) [\#11758623](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11758623))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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