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Je **travaille** le lundi. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#6645800](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6645800) [\#6393410](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6393410)) - Cherubino **works** better than Rothschild.” Chérubin **travaille** mieux que Rothschild. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29157) - On the tops of the pillars was lily **work**. So the **work** of the pillars was finished. Il y avait sur le sommet des colonnes un **travail** figurant des lis. Ainsi fut achevé l’ouvrage des colonnes. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1KI 7:22) - Our **work** is not yet complete. Notre **travail** n'est pas encore terminé. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1419199) - Minister of Public **Works**. Ministre des **travaux** publics. ([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 2705962) ## œuvres Used about 14 733 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 41 · biblical ≈ 243 · parliamentary ≈ 4 366 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 390 · UN documents ≈ 8 692). - I have heard that nothing gives an author so great pleasure, as to find his **works** respectfully quoted by others. J'ai entendu dire que rien ne procure à un auteur un plus grand plaisir que de voir ses **œuvres** respectueusement citées par d'autres. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#12341552](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12341552) [\#12341566](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12341566)) - I will not die, but live, and declare the LORD’s **works**. Je ne mourrai pas, je vivrai, Et je raconterai les **œuvres** de l’Éternel. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 118:17) - This also applies, of course, when their **works** are made available on the internet. Il en va bien sûr de même lorsque leurs **œuvres** sont publiées sur l'internet. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1312914) - Grant aid for the release of a non-national European **works** slate over a given period. Octroyer une aide à la sortie d'un catalogue d'**œuvres** européennes non nationales sur une période donnée. ([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 871501) - According to the available report date of 2007, AGATA represents the rights of 1,136 performers, 69 producers of phonograms, 23 producers of audio-visual **works** and has signed agreements with 28 allied organisations. En 2007, AGATA représentait les droits de 1 136 interprètes, 69 producteurs de phonogrammes, 23 producteurs d ' **œuvres** audiovisuelles, et avait conclu des accords avec 28 organismes partenaires. ([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 24499591) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Tom's not well enough to go to **work** today. Tom ne va pas assez bien pour aller travailler aujourd'hui. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by patgfisher and olivier · checked, community translation · [\#3342399](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3342399) [\#5628153](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5628153)) - He began to **work** to get Congress to reduce taxes. Il se mit à œuvrer afin que le Congrès réduisît les impôts. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#803300](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/803300) [\#2343438](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2343438)) - It'll **work** itself out in time. Ça s'arrangera avec le temps. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Equilingual · checked, community translation · [\#9038152](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9038152) [\#9038501](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9038501)) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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