travail – French noun declension

French noun forms of travail

Noun: travail
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mtravail
Plural mtravaux; travails

Sample Sentences

  • un travail bien fait (work done well, a job well done)
  • On se met au travail. (Let's get to work.)
  • Remettez-vous au travail. (Do get to work.)
  • Il se plonge dans le travail. (He dives into work.)
  • Pour la majorité des femmes, le travail commence par des contractions utérine. (For most women, labor begins with uterine contractions.)

Nouns inflected like travail

émail, travail, bail,

Etymology

1. Inherited from Middle French travail (“suffering, pain”), from Old French travail (“suffering, pain”), deverbal of travailler, from Vulgar Latin *tripāliāre, from Late Latin tripālium (“torture device made of three stakes”).
2. The plural derives from Old French travauz, early travailz, with vocalization of the lateral before a consonant (/tʁavo/ < /tɾaˈvau̯s/ < /tɾaˈvaʎts/).

Verbs referencing "travail"

English Nouns travois.

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