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# working — English to French

How English *working* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: working (618 475), workings (1 182). By style: everyday 892 · literary 7 · biblical 20 · parliamentary 20 250 · legal and administrative 22 615 · UN documents 575 873.

## travail

Used about 235 767 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 36 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 4 008 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 769 · UN documents ≈ 227 950).

- The workers are complaining about their **working** conditions.
  Les travailleurs se plaignent de leurs conditions de **travail**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#4554341](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4554341) [\#6167077](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6167077))

- The war of the street was suddenly transfigured by some unfathomable inward **working** of his soul, before the eye of his thought.
  La guerre de la rue se transfigura subitement, par on ne sait quel **travail** d'âme intérieur, devant l'oeil de sa pensée.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24409)

- For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for **working** night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
  Vous vous rappelez, frères, notre **travail** et notre peine: nuit et jour à l’œuvre, pour n’être à charge à aucun de vous, nous vous avons prêché l’Évangile de Dieu.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1TH 2:9)

- The **Working** Time Directive is currently in force.
  La directive sur l'aménagement du temps de **travail** est actuellement en vigueur.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1177111)

- Hydraulic presses for **working** metal
  Presses hydrauliques pour le **travail** des métaux n.c.a.
  ([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 2683935)

## fonctionnement

Used about 172 916 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 5 063 · legal and administrative ≈ 5 889 · UN documents ≈ 161 964).

- The new, sound **workings** of international finance will have to be based on fairness.
  L'équité devra être la base du nouveau **fonctionnement** sain de la finance mondiale.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1288069)

- LED module(s) shall be so designed as to be and to remain in good **working** order when in normal use.
  La conception du (des) module(s) DEL doit être telle que leur bon **fonctionnement** soit et demeure assuré dans les conditions normales d’utilisation.
  ([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 5533124)

- Introduce children and young people to the **workings** of a municipality
  initier les enfants et les jeunes au **fonctionnement** d &apos; une commune
  ([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 22479933)

- That would have been enough to modernise the institutions and the **workings** of the Union.
  Il aurait suffi pour moderniser les institutions et le **fonctionnement** de l’Union.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 637932)

- LNG fuel pump shall be provided with pressure relief valve to limit the pressure to the maximum safe **working** pressure of the pump.
  La pompe à GNL doit être munie d'une soupape de surpression de façon à ne pas dépasser la pression maximale de **fonctionnement**.
  ([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 5541834)

## groupe

Used about 6 631 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 633 · UN documents ≈ 5 999).

- Britain joining the Social Chapter was a great relief to us members of the Socialist Group **working** in the social sector.
  L'adhésion au protocole social a été pour nous, autant sans doute que pour les membres du **groupe** socialiste travaillant dans le secteur social, un immense soulagement.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1799283)

- A new group had also been formed to make women more aware of the **workings** of politics and instruct them in how to exercise their rights and powers.
  De plus, un nouveau **groupe** a été créé pour initier les femmes aux rouages politiques et leur apprendre à exercer leurs droits et leur pouvoir.
  ([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 4685745)

- The Consultative **Working** Party concluded that the proposal is a straightforward codification of existing texts, without any change in their substance.
  Le **groupe** consultatif a conclu que cette proposition représente une codification directe des textes existants, sans aucune modification quant au fond.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1555376)

- My statement was based, therefore, on the results of the inquiry carried out by the chairman of the BSE interdepartmental **working** party, on our instructions.
  Donc, ce que je viens de déclarer résulte des investigations faites par le président du **groupe** interservices BSC, sur la base de nos instructions.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1617128)

## More sentences

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

- I've been **working** here for nine years.
  Je travaille ici depuis neuf ans.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and mraz · checked, community translation · [\#14065625](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14065625) [\#14065594](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/14065594))

- I'm **working** for a trading firm.
  Je travaille pour une entreprise de commerce.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#67141](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/67141) [\#4608966](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4608966))

- Is the air conditioning **working**?
  La climatisation fonctionne-t-elle ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#8910297](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8910297) [\#11241383](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11241383))

## 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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