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# efforts — French to English

How French *efforts* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation 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: efforts (383 877). By style: everyday 157 · literary 6 · biblical 5 · parliamentary 18 534 · legal and administrative 5 052 · UN documents 360 123.

## efforts

Used about 343 178 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 134 · literary ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 16 217 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 210 · UN documents ≈ 322 610). Forms: effort, efforts.

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

- Elle se souleva, s'assit, le regarda, et avec un de ces **efforts** de courage qu'il faut, en certains cas, pour se tuer, elle lui dit:
  She raised herself, she sat up, looked in his face, and with an **effort** of courage such as it must cost in some cases to kill one’s self, she said:
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · maupassant pierre jean, row 1839)

- 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)

- évitent la duplication des **efforts**;
  avoid duplication of **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. STRATÉGIES ET **EFFORTS** DE RECONSTRUCTION
  II. RECONSTRUCTION STRATEGIES AND **EFFORTS**
  ([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)

## More sentences

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

- Dis-leur de faire plus d'**efforts**.
  Tell them to try harder.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CH · checked, community translation · [\#3907899](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3907899) [\#12029602](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12029602))

- Il fait des **efforts** pour arrêter de fumer.
  He is trying hard to quit smoking.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and Helene · checked, community translation · [\#6203711](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6203711) [\#15378](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/15378))

- J'aurais dû faire plus d'**efforts**.
  I should've tried harder.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2406470](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2406470) [\#11702476](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11702476))

## 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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