/tʁa.va.jœʁ/
Translation
hard-working
Word origin
From travailler ('to work'), from Vulgar Latin *tripaliare ('to torture with a tripalium', a three-staked instrument), a reminder that 'labour' and 'suffering' share a root in French.
- Origin
- Vulgar Latin
- Root
- tripaliare
- English cognates
- travail
Grammar
Examples
, ' .
My colleague is very hard-working, he never stops.
C' .
She's a hard-working pupil who always passes her exams.
augmentation.
Hard-working employees deserve a pay rise.
also works as a noun ( , = a worker), but this page covers its far more common job as an adjective.
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