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Forms: work, working. Meaning: [work in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/work/). - Mon **travail** est monotone. My **work** is monotonous. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rul and rul · checked, community translation · [\#13058577](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13058577) [\#13593590](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13593590)) - Le premier problème contient la question du **travail**. The first problem contains the question of **work**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18276) - Celui qui se relâche dans son **travail** Est frère de celui qui détruit. One who is slack in his **work** is brother to him who is a master of destruction. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 18:9) - Là, il y a aussi un **travail** important. There is important **work** to be done in that regard, too. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 993908) - Préparer des programmes de **travail**. To prepare **work** programs. ([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 4172034) ## labor Used about 153 273 times in the texts (literary ≈ 12 · biblical ≈ 37 · parliamentary ≈ 3 254 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 883 · UN documents ≈ 147 087). Forms: labor, labour. Meaning: [labor in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/labor/). - Il avait vécu de son **travail**. He had lived by his own **labor**. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18170) - L’homme sort pour se rendre à son ouvrage, Et à son **travail**, jusqu’au soir. Man goes out to his work, to his **labor** until the evening. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 104:23) - Le **travail** en servitude, ou quelle que soit l’appellation qu’on lui donne, constitue une forme d’esclavage. Indentured **labour** by any other term is a form of slavery. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 851187) - Ancien ministre du **travail** et des affaires sociales. Former Minister of **Labour** and Social Affairs. ([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 3327554) - Le Département de l ' application du code du **travail** The Department of **Labor** Law Enforcement ([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 7858404) ## group Used about 16 343 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 16 343). Meaning: [group in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/group/). - Le Groupe de Rio remercie le Directeur du Centre régional pour le **travail** remarquable qu ' il a accompli. The Rio **Group** congratulates the Director of the Regional Centre on its great work. ([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 16598930) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Vous devez être plus poli avec vos collègues de **travail**. You have to be more polite with your coworkers. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Ioan\_Cristian and Ioan\_Cristian · checked, community translation · [\#13887081](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13887081) [\#13887083](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13887083)) - Nous n'avons pas eu assez de temps pour finir le **travail**. We didn't have enough time to finish the job. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5651788](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5651788) [\#7802660](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7802660)) - Mary est une personne sociable et est bien adaptée à son **travail** de réceptionniste d'hôtel. Mary is a people person and is well-suited to her job as a hotel receptionist. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scorpionvenin14 and patgfisher · checked, community translation · [\#6302050](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6302050) [\#6302135](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6302135)) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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