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Meaning: [work in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/work/). - Ils **travaillent** pour moi. They **work** for me. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by GB3 and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2549266](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2549266) [\#6815531](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6815531)) - Au moment de monter l'escalier, il aperçut de l'autre côté du boulevard, le long du mur désert de la rue de la Barrière des Gobelins, Jondrette enveloppé du par-dessus du «philanthrope», qui parlait à un de ces hommes de mine inquiétante qu'on est convenu d'appeler rôdeurs de barrières; gens à figures équivoques, à monologues suspects, qui ont un air de mauvaise pensée, et qui dorment assez habituellement de jour, ce qui fait supposer qu'ils **travaillent** la nuit. As he was on the point of mounting the staircase, he perceived, on the other side of the boulevard, near the deserted wall skirting the Rue De la Barrière-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the “philanthropist’s” great-coat, engaged in conversation with one of those men of disquieting aspect who have been dubbed by common consent, prowlers of the barriers; people of equivocal face, of suspicious monologues, who present the air of having evil minds, and who generally sleep in the daytime, which suggests the supposition that they **work** by night. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 16512) - Ceux qui **travaillent** le lin peigné Et qui tissent des étoffes blanches seront confus. Moreover those who **work** in combed flax, and those who weave white cloth, will be confounded. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ISA 19:9) - Ils sont là et ils **travaillent** clandestinement. They are here and they are **working** illegally. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 658802) - Membres de la famille de l'exploitant qui **travaillent** dans l'exploitation: Members of sole holder's family carrying out farm **work** for the holding: ([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 3355440) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Les médecins **travaillent** du soir au matin. The doctor works from morning until night. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and paper1n0 · checked, community translation · [\#4736784](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4736784) [\#1084996](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1084996)) - Ils détruisent mon propre sentier et **travaillent** à ma perte, Eux à qui personne ne viendrait en aide; They mar my path. They promote my destruction without anyone’s help. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 30:13) - Et pourquoi vous inquiéter au sujet du vêtement? Considérez comment croissent les lis des champs: ils ne **travaillent** ni ne filent; Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin, ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 6:28) ## 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. Every example names its source and licence. 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