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# effort — French to English

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

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: effort (43 528), efforts (383 877). By style: everyday 236 · literary 32 · biblical 8 · parliamentary 23 092 · legal and administrative 8 262 · UN documents 395 775.

## effort

Used about 353 439 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 202 · literary ≈ 29 · parliamentary ≈ 16 597 · legal and administrative ≈ 6 799 · UN documents ≈ 329 813). Forms: effort, efforts. Meaning: [effort in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/effort/).

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

- Éponine tenta un dernier **effort**.
  Éponine made a final **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)

- Nous devons travailler ensemble et poursuivre ces **efforts**.
  We must all work together in this **effort**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2012509)

- 10 % de l'**effort** de pêche
  10 % of the fishing **effort**
  ([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)

- **Effort** ininterrompu \[H.c.1\]
  Continuous **effort** \[H.c.1\]
  ([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)

## made

Used about 4 124 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 4 123).

- Il tenta encore un **effort** sur Trouillefou.
  He **made** one more attempt upon Trouillefou.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 1392)

- Il serait bon de savoir en outre si le Haut—Commissariat des Nations Unies aux droits de l’homme a déployé quelque **effort** dans ce domaine.
  It would be useful to know, incidentally, whether the OHCHR had **made** any attempts in that area.
  ([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 6105309)

## make

Used about 724 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 722). Meaning: [make in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/make/).

- Tu dois redoubler d'**effort** pour rattraper le temps perdu.
  You have to work harder to **make** up for lost time.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Yemana and CK · checked, community translation · [\#69097](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/69097) [\#6385710](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6385710))

- Peut-il nous promettre que la présidence veillera au maintien de l'**effort** de réforme?
  Will he give us his assurance that the presidency will **make** sure that this continues?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1860119)

- Enfin, à quelques semaines de la coupe du monde en Allemagne, nous devons redoubler d’**effort** pour sensibiliser la population.
  Finally, with the run-up to the World Cup in Germany, we need to do much more to **make** people aware.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 781490)

- Vu le caractère spécifique de l'affaire et la nécessité de rentabiliser nos **efforts** au maximum, il est essentiel que nous puissions aussi faire évoluer la norme.
  Surely, given the particular nature of this report and the need to **make** the Centre as effective as possible, we should also be allowed to change the procedure?
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1700644)

## More sentences

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

- Jane a fait un **effort** pour être gentille avec la nouvelle fille.
  Jane went out of her way to be nice to the new girl.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and CN · checked, community translation · [\#53743](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/53743) [\#838359](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/838359))

- Une telle personne fera souvent un **effort** particulier pour éviter de rencontrer une personne du sexe opposé.
  Such a person will often go a block out of his way to avoid meeting a person of the opposite sex.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Source\_Benedict\_1921 · checked, community translation · [\#847252](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/847252) [\#913608](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/913608))

- Fais l'**effort** d'aller un peu plus loin ; ce n'est pas surpeuplé.
  Go the extra mile; it's not crowded.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and bart · checked, community translation · [\#1398498](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1398498) [\#1436878](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1436878))

## Grammar

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

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