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# tâche — French to English

How French *tâche* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: tâche (49 610), tâches (72 112). By style: everyday 164 · literary 5 · biblical 7 · parliamentary 8 050 · legal and administrative 14 279 · UN documents 99 217.

## task

Used about 68 615 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 80 · literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 5 115 · legal and administrative ≈ 10 709 · UN documents ≈ 52 709). Forms: task, tasks. Meaning: [task in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/task/).

- Quelles sont mes **tâches** ?
  What are my **tasks**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and lukaszpp · checked, community translation · [\#464500](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/464500) [\#468608](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/468608))

- Cependant le temps s'écoulait; la nuit se fit; les bruits de la rue s'apaisèrent; mon oncle, toujours courbé sur sa **tâche**, ne vit rien, pas même la bonne Marthe qui entr'ouvrit la porte; il n'entendit rien, pas même la voix de cette digne servante, disant:
  But time was passing away; night came on; the street noises ceased; my uncle, bending over his **task**, noticed nothing, not even Martha half opening the door; he heard not a sound, not even that excellent woman saying:
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 328)

- Ce n’est pas une **tâche** facile.
  It is no easy **task**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 629493)

- Le groupe a pour **tâche**:
  The group’s **task** is to:
  ([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 777254)

- La Cinquième Commission est face à une **tâche** difficile.
  The Fifth Committee faced a difficult **task**.
  ([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 7015729)

## out

Used about 3 715 times in the texts (literary ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 168 · legal and administrative ≈ 446 · UN documents ≈ 3 101). Meaning: [out in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/out/).

- --Il faut que tu **tâches** de savoir où est allée cette noce-là?
  “You must try to find **out** where that wedding party went to.”
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 29686)

- De même, il faut supprimer tout "contrat-cadre" avec des sociétés externes et attribuer les **tâches** de suivi et d'évaluation à des organismes publics.
  It also calls for any 'framework' contracts with external bodies to be phased **out** and for monitoring and evaluation to be awarded to public bodies.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 399988)

- lorsque les locaux sont employés, le nombre de vétérinaires doit y être suffisant pour garantir l’accomplissement de toutes les **tâches**;
  when operating, they must have sufficient veterinarians to carry **out** all duties;
  ([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 2096040)

- Ma délégation coopérera entièrement avec vous dans l &apos; accomplissement de votre noble **tâche**.
  My delegation will cooperate fully with you as you carry **out** your lofty duties.
  ([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 14874762)

- Immédiatement, des collègues allemands sont venus porter secours à leurs amis néerlandais. Ils ont effectué des **tâches** souvent dangereuses, qui étaient nécessaires pour lutter contre cette catastrophe.
  At a moment' s notice, German colleagues joined forces with their Dutch friends to carry **out** the frequently dangerous activities which were necessary to control the disaster.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 47429)

## More sentences

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

- Elle est dure à la **tâche**.
  She is very hardworking.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CC · checked, community translation · [\#311805](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/311805) [\#134069](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/134069))

- Ce fut la **tâche** la plus difficile de ma vie.
  That was the hardest job of my life.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#3387090](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3387090) [\#3394735](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3394735))

- Ils ont peiné à la **tâche**, comme des abeilles en essaim.
  They worked hard like so many bees.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by nimfeo and nimfeo · checked, community translation · [\#307543](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/307543) [\#2964620](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2964620))

## Grammar

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