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le travail
work
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How do you say travail in French?
How do you pronounce travail in French?
travail is pronounced /lə tʁavaj/ in French.
Example sentences
Le travail difficile m'a épuisé.
The difficult work exhausted me. (masculine adjective 'difficile' agrees with masculine noun 'travail'; masculine past participle 'épuisé' agrees with masculine subject)
Mon travail intéressant me passionne.
My interesting work fascinates me. (masculine possessive adjective 'mon' and masculine adjective 'intéressant' must agree with masculine 'travail'; masculine past participle 'passionne' shows the masculine subject receives the action)
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Why is it masculine?
Travail is masculine in French. While it does derive from the Latin "tripalium" (a three-pronged agricultural or torture instrument), the gender retention from Latin to French is not reliably predictable and cannot be explained solely by semantic association with pain or labor. French grammatical gender is largely arbitrary from a modern perspective, and the masculine gender of "travail" is simply a historical accident of how this word evolved through Old French, rather than being preserved due to the semantic content of painful labor.
What is the French word for work?
The French word for work is le travail — masculine.
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