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# efforts — English to French

How English *efforts* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 5 translations with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: efforts (474 930). By style: everyday 98 · literary 6 · parliamentary 15 499 · legal and administrative 5 097 · UN documents 454 230.

## efforts

Used about 366 546 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 96 · literary ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 12 593 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 717 · UN documents ≈ 350 136).

- I appreciate your **efforts**.
  J'apprécie tes **efforts**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Yemana · checked, community translation · [\#3619764](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3619764) [\#6971311](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6971311))

- Javert thought that the young man, whose name he had forgotten, was afraid, and had fled, or perhaps, had not even returned home at the time of the ambush; he made some **efforts** to find him, however, but without success.
  Javert crut que le jeune homme, dont il n'avait pas retenu le nom, avait eu peur et s'était sauvé ou n'était peut-être même pas rentré chez lui au moment du guet-apens; il fit pourtant quelques **efforts** pour le retrouver, mais il n'y parvint pas.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18733)

- **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)

- avoid duplication of **efforts**;
  évitent la duplication des **efforts**;
  ([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 2873935)

- II. RECONSTRUCTION STRATEGIES AND **EFFORTS**
  II. STRATÉGIES ET **EFFORTS** DE RECONSTRUCTION
  ([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 669430)

## leurs

Used about 9 463 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 9 463).

- Counter-narcotics operations demonstrate progress in disrupting the trade, although the effects of sustained law enforcement **efforts** remain temporary.
  Ces opérations parviennent de mieux en mieux à désorganiser le commerce des stupéfiants mais **leurs** effets demeurent temporaires.
  ([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 28520930)

## je

Used about 646 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 646).

- Yet we are accused of being poor managers: I think that we need to ramp up our communication **efforts**.
  Et on nous dit que nous sommes de mauvais gestionnaires? Nous avons besoin, **je** crois, de beaucoup plus de communication.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1570554)

- I would like to thank you, Commissioner, for your reply and your **efforts** with regard to the funding of the World Anti-Doping Agency.
  **Je** voudrais remercier la commissaire, Mme De Palacio, de sa réponse et de son effort pour le financement de l'Agence mondiale antidopage.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 257447)

## nos

Used about 323 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 323).

- I welcome this and I thank our colleagues for their persuasive **efforts**.
  Je m'en félicite et je remercie **nos** collègues pour leur effort de persuasion.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1998664)

## ses

Used about 106 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 106).

- The National Director shall use its best **efforts** to coordinate the interaction of its national centres with the EATRIS ERIC.
  Le directeur national met tout en œuvre pour coordonner l’interaction de **ses** centres nationaux avec l’ERIC EATRIS.
  ([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 2818697)

## More sentences

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

- A good lawyer would leave no stone unturned in his **efforts** to defend his client.
  Un bon avocat remuerait ciel et terre pour défendre son client.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and gall · checked, community translation · [\#325866](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/325866) [\#135633](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/135633))

- But in a very short time, all these **efforts** at communal legislation fell into abeyance.
  Mais, en peu de temps, tous ces essais de législation communale tombèrent en désuétude.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 7009)

- We shall continue with our **efforts** to provide specific support for people who have left their country or region of origin as a result of conflict or internal disturbance.
  Nous continuerons notre effort d'assistance aux populations qui ont abandonné leur pays ou leur lieu d'origine à la suite de conflits ou de troubles intérieurs.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1647970)

## Grammar

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