how to pronounce travail

/tʁa.vaj/

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travail is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of travail in a speech by a native speaker of standard french:

“… en tout cas le travail est en marche et …”

meanings of travail

noun:

Job.
Work; labor.
Workplace.

travail frequency in french - A1 level of CEFR

the word travail occurs in french on average 445.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.