Difference between revisions of "Work"

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=noun=
 
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Often uncountable.  (homework, housework, paperwork, etc.) However, "artworks" can be counted in British English.
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Most often uncountable as a suffix.  (homework, housework, paperwork, etc.) However, "artworks" and "roadworks" can be counted in British English, but are uncountable in American English.
  
Contrast with "job" or "task" which are countable.
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Contrast with "job" or "task" which are countable.  NB:  ''mon travail'' is translated as "my job" unless you are talking about the fruit of your labor (i.e. something more abstract than your everyday job).
  
 
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The verb can also mean ''fonctionner'' / ''marcher''.   
 
The verb can also mean ''fonctionner'' / ''marcher''.   
 
*This machine doesn't work.  (''Elle ne fonctionne pas'')   
 
*This machine doesn't work.  (''Elle ne fonctionne pas'')   
*That'll work. (ça marche)
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*That'll work. (''Ça marche.'')
  
 
==Forms (regular verb)==
 
==Forms (regular verb)==

Latest revision as of 16:39, 30 March 2020

noun

Most often uncountable as a suffix. (homework, housework, paperwork, etc.) However, "artworks" and "roadworks" can be counted in British English, but are uncountable in American English.

Contrast with "job" or "task" which are countable. NB: mon travail is translated as "my job" unless you are talking about the fruit of your labor (i.e. something more abstract than your everyday job).

verb

An activity verb meaning travailler, but unrelated etymologically to the Latin torture instrument. Instead the word is related to the root "erg" such as can be found in energy, urgent, gamergate...

The verb can also mean fonctionner / marcher.

  • This machine doesn't work. (Elle ne fonctionne pas)
  • That'll work. (Ça marche.)

Forms (regular verb)

  • dictionary form (bare infinitive): work
  • present tense: works (3s), work (1s/p, 2s/p, 3p)
  • past tense: worked
  • present participle: working
  • past participle: worked