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By style: everyday 2 368 · literary 19 · biblical 83 · parliamentary 16 073 · legal and administrative 5 234 · UN documents 100 742. ## work Used about 92 636 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 213 · literary ≈ 13 · biblical ≈ 46 · parliamentary ≈ 12 828 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 489 · UN documents ≈ 74 046). Forms: work, worked, working. Meaning: [work in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/work/). - Je **travaille** la nuit. I **work** at night. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5856386](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5856386) [\#1341588](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1341588)) - Puis il **travaillait**. Then he set to **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 274) - Ou bien, est-ce que moi seul et Barnabas nous n’avons pas le droit de ne point **travailler**? Or have only Barnabas and I no right to not **work**? ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 9:6) - J' ai **travaillé** sur des échelles. I **worked** on ladders. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 206784) - Nombre de jours **travaillés** Number of days **worked**. ([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 5036430) ## hours Used about 2 345 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · literary ≈ 1 · UN documents ≈ 2 338). - Elle **travaille** de longues heures. She works long **hours**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1829495](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1829495) [\#1830937](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1830937)) - Il avait ainsi posé le problème de sa vie: **travailler** le moins possible du travail matériel pour **travailler** le plus possible du travail impalpable; en d'autres termes, donner quelques heures à la vie réelle, et jeter le reste dans l'infini. He had thus propounded the problem of his life: to toil as little as possible at material labor, in order to toil as much as possible at the labor which is impalpable; in other words, to bestow a few **hours** on real life, and to cast the rest to the infinite. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 14905) - Moyenne des heures **travaillés** par semaine Average **Hours** of Work Per Week ([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 13442196) - Nombre de jours **travaillés** dans le mois Regular work **hours** Number of work-days in month ([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 7616361) - Nombre moyen d ' heures **travaillées** en tout (travail rémunéré ou non), selon le contexte familial Average **hours** spent in total work (paid and unpaid work), by family context ([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 29696990) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Nous commençâmes à **travailler** à un nouveau projet. We began on a new project. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#22888](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/22888) [\#814743](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/814743)) - Elle l'exhorta à **travailler** plus fort. She urged him to study harder. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#887483](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/887483) [\#1348339](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1348339)) - S'il ne **travaille** pas plus assidûment, il y a possibilité qu'il perde sa place. He is in danger of losing his position unless he works harder. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by dominiko and CK · checked, community translation · [\#293134](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/293134) [\#131453](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/131453)) ## 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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