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# travaux — French to English

How French *travaux* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: travaux (428 216). By style: everyday 34 · literary 8 · biblical 31 · parliamentary 7 339 · legal and administrative 12 188 · UN documents 408 616.

## work

Used about 324 829 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 18 · biblical ≈ 15 · parliamentary ≈ 5 504 · legal and administrative ≈ 4 317 · UN documents ≈ 314 975). Meaning: [work in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/work/).

- Les **travaux** vont commencer demain.
  **Work** is due to begin tomorrow.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by alexmarcelo and CM · checked, community translation · [\#987305](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/987305) [\#987304](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/987304))

- Lorsque Baescha l’apprit, il cessa de bâtir Rama et interrompit ses **travaux**.
  When Baasha heard of it, he stopped building Ramah, and let his **work** cease.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 2CH 16:5)

- Les **travaux** sur ce dernier point seront bientôt finis.
  **Work** on the latter is just drawing to a close.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 586010)

- Archivage et **travaux** connexes
  Archiving and related **work**
  ([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 3783808)

- D. **Travaux** de la première Assemblée
  D. **Work** of the First Meeting
  ([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 6002634)

## commission

Used about 9 174 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 153 · legal and administrative ≈ 508 · UN documents ≈ 8 513). Meaning: [commission in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/commission/).

- À mesure que la Commission sombre dans la décrépitude avant de se perdre dans les ténèbres, les grands **travaux** de la culture européenne demeureront des balises inutiles.
  As the **Commission** sinks into caducity before becoming lost in caliginosity, the great works of European culture will remain as knitted beacons.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1131022)

- Le GEIE BONUS fait rapport sur l’état d’avancement des **travaux**, à la demande de la Commission.
  BONUS EEIG shall report on the progress at the request of the **Commission**.
  ([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 2036904)

- Rapport de la Commission des stupéfiants sur les **travaux** de sa quarante-deuxième session (résolution 9 (I) du Conseil)
  Report of the **Commission** on Narcotic Drugs on its forty-second session (Council resolution 9 (I))
  ([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 5030146)

- La Commission les informera des **travaux** du groupe d'experts sur les questions démographiques.
  The **Commission** will inform these bodies of the activities of the expert group on demographic issues.
  ([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 1136122)

## committee

Used about 8 513 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 8 513). Meaning: [committee in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/committee/).

- Rapport du Comité spécial sur l’élaboration d’une convention contre la criminalité transnationale organisée sur les **travaux** de sa troisième session, tenue à Vienne du 28 avril au 3 mai 1999
  A/AC.254/14 Report of the Ad Hoc **Committee** on the Elaboration of a Convention against Transnational Organized Crime on its third session, held in Vienna from 28 April to 3 May 1999
  ([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 5888431)

## More sentences

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

- Avec l'achèvement des **travaux** de peinture, l'harmonie du foyer est retrouvée.
  With the completion of the housepainting, harmony is restored to the household.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and janms · checked, community translation · [\#3293641](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3293641) [\#3485768](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3485768))

- La route est en **travaux**.
  The road is under construction.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#5444080](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5444080) [\#12450836](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12450836))

- Précisément pour cette raison, de nombreux **travaux** ont été traduits de toutes sortes de langue à l'espéranto.
  For precisely that reason, many works have been translated from all kinds of languages into Esperanto.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#4350961](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4350961) [\#8447867](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8447867))

## Grammar

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