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# worked — English to French

How English *worked* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: worked (37 389). By style: everyday 398 · literary 7 · biblical 49 · parliamentary 4 061 · legal and administrative 4 893 · UN documents 27 981.

## travaillé

Used about 7 955 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 207 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 4 · parliamentary ≈ 1 607 · legal and administrative ≈ 306 · UN documents ≈ 5 829).

- I **worked** very hard.
  J'ai **travaillé** très dur.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#5859678](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5859678) [\#2397299](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2397299))

- Mont-Saint-Jean was cannonaded, Hougomont was burned, La Haie-Sainte was taken by assault, Papelotte was burned, Plancenoit was burned, La Belle-Alliance beheld the embrace of the two conquerors; these names are hardly known, and Waterloo, which **worked** not in the battle, bears off all the honor.
  Mont-Saint-Jean a été canonné, Hougomont a été brûlé, Papelotte a été brûlé, Plancenoit a été brûlé, la Haie-Sainte a été prise d'assaut, la Belle-Alliance a vu l'embrasement des deux vainqueurs; on sait à peine ces noms, et Waterloo qui n'a point **travaillé** dans la bataille en a tout l'honneur.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 7640)

- Simon answered him, “Master, we **worked** all night and caught nothing; but at your word I will let down the net.”
  Simon lui répondit: Maître, nous avons **travaillé** toute la nuit sans rien prendre; mais, sur ta parole, je jetterai le filet.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 5:5)

- I myself **worked** for many years as a postman.
  J'ai moi-même **travaillé** longtemps comme facteur.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1747166)

- **worked** in another Member State during periods regarded as periods of insurance under the Dutch social security system.
  a **travaillé** dans un autre État membre pendant des périodes assimilées à des périodes d’assurance au titre du régime de sécurité sociale néerlandais.
  ([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 1922501)

## More sentences

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

- Police questioned many persons who **worked** near the crime scene.
  La police a interrogé de nombreuses personnes qui travaillaient près de la scène de crime.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Scorpionvenin14 · checked, community translation · [\#4009067](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4009067) [\#4009082](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4009082))

- This system **worked** well until the 1840s.
  Ce système fonctionna bien jusque dans les années dix-huit-cents-quarante.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Source\_VOA and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#807400](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/807400) [\#1083062](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1083062))

- You should have **worked** harder.
  Tu aurais dû être plus dur à la tâche.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and littlejohn\_75 · checked, community translation · [\#16373](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/16373) [\#2804283](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2804283))

## Grammar

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