Dans cette fiche, travaillons sur la conjugaison de work en anglais, et profitons-en pour en étudier les définitions, synonymes, expressions liées et phrasal verbs !
Tableaux de conjugaison de work en anglais
Conjugaison du verbe work à l’indicatif
Le verbe work au present simple
- I work
- You work
- He/she/it works
- We work
- You work
- They work
Le verbe work au present continuous
- I am working
- You are working
- He/she/it is working
- We are working
- You are working
- They are working
Le verbe work au past simple
- I worked
- You worked
- He/she/it worked
- We worked
- You worked
- They worked
Le verbe work au past continuous
- I was working
- You were working
- He/she/it was working
- We were working
- You were working
- They were working
Le verbe work au present perfect
- I have worked
- You have worked
- He/she/it has worked
- We have worked
- You have worked
- They have worked
Le verbe work au present perfect continuous
- I have been working
- You have been working
- He/she/it has been working
- We have been working
- You have been working
- They have been working
Le verbe work au past perfect
- I had worked
- You had worked
- He/she/it had worked
- We had worked
- You had worked
- They had worked
Le verbe work au past perfect continuous
- I had been working
- You had been working
- He/she/it had been working
- We had been working
- You had been working
- They had been working
Le verbe work au future
- I will work
- You will work
- He/she/it will work
- We will work
- You will work
- They will work
Le verbe work au future continuous
- I will be working
- You will be working
- He/she/it will be working
- We will be working
- You will be working
- They will be working
Le verbe work au future perfect
- I will have worked
- You will have worked
- He/she/it will have worked
- We will have worked
- You will have worked
- They will have worked
Le verbe work au future perfect continuous
- I will have been working
- You will have been working
- He/she/it will have been working
- We will have been working
- You will have been working
- They will have been working
Conjugaison du verbe work au conditionnel
Le verbe work au conditional present
- I would work
- You would work
- He/she/it would work
- We would work
- You would work
- They would work
Le verbe work au conditional present continuous
- I would be working
- You would be working
- He/she/it would be working
- We would be working
- You would be working
- They would be working
Le verbe work au conditional perfect
- I would have worked
- You would have worked
- He/she/it would have worked
- We would have worked
- You would have worked
- They would have worked
Le verbe work au conditional perfect continuous
- I would have been working
- You would have been working
- He/she/it would have been working
- We would have been working
- You would have been working
- They would have been working
Les autres formes
L’infinitif de work
- to work
Participe présent de work
- working
Participe passé de work
- worked
L’impératif de work
- work
- let’s work
Définition de work en anglais
Que veut dire le verbe work en anglais ?
Le Cambridge Dictionary donne plusieurs définitions du verbe work.
Penchons-nous sur les principales :
1. To be effective or successful
I don’t think this will ever work.
→ Je pense pas que ça marchera dans la pratique.
2. To do a job, especially the job you do to earn money
He’s been working as a farmer for 10 years.
→ Il travaille comme agriculteur depuis 10 ans.
3. To make a person or animal do a job
They were worked to a strict schedule.
→ Ils étaient soumis à des horaires stricts.
4. If a machine or device works, it operates, especially correctly and without failure, and if you work it, you make it operate
My computer isn’t working anymore.
→ Mon ordinateur ne fonctionne plus.
5. To succeed gradually in becoming something or cause a person or thing to become something, either by making an effort or by making many small movements
The knots in the rope worked loose.
→ Les noeuds sur la corde se sont défaits.
6. To arrange for something to happen, especially by not using official methods and/or by being clever
We worked the situation and by the end of the week had signed a deal.
→ On s’est penché sur la situation et à la fin de la semaine, on avait signé un accord.
7. To shape, change, or process a substance
Work the dough with your hands, forming it into a ball.
→ Travaillez la pâte avec vos mains, en formant une boule.
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Les phrasal verbs avec work en anglais
Rappel : les phrasal verbs (ou “verbes à particule”) sont des verbes qui, lorsqu’ils sont suivis d’un autre mot (la particule), voient leur sens initial complété ou modifié.
Voici les principaux phrasal verbs formés sur le verbe work :
- work against somebody/something → jouer en défaveur de quelqu’un/quelque chose
- work around something → contourner
- work on somebody (familier) → travailler au corps
- work on something → travailler sur
- work out → faire du sport/de l’exercice/de la musculation
- work somebody out (familier) → comprendre/cerner
- work somebody over (familier) → tabasser/rouer de coups
- work somebody up → exciter/énerver
- work something down → faire baisser (un prix)
- work something in → dégager du temps pour/trouver un créneau pour
- work something in → introduire lentement/insérer petit à petit
- work something off → brûler/dépenser (des calories, par exemple)
- work something out (familier) → calculer
- work something out → résoudre/trouver une solution
- work through something → examiner
- work up something → préparer/élaborer/concocter
- work up to something (familier) → essayer de trouver le courage de
Les synonymes de work en anglais
En fonction du contexte, vous pouvez remplacer le verbe to work par l’un des verbes suivants :
- achieve → accomplir/réussir
- cram (familier) → bûcher/potasser
- function → fonctionner
- graft (familier) → travailler dur/bosser dur
- labor → travailler dur
- perform → accomplir/mener à bien
- run → fonctionner/marcher
- slave → trimer
- slog (familier) → turbiner/se décarcasser
- swot → bûcher/potasser
Expressions avec work en anglais
- all in a day’s work (familier) → je n’ai fait que mon travail
- be approved to work → être jugé apte à travailler
- blood work (nom) → analyse de sang
- do the dirty work (argot) → se taper le sale boulot
- donkey work (nom familier) → le gros du travail/travail ingrat/sale boulot
- get down to work (familier) → se mettre au boulot
- have your work cut out for you (familier) → avoir du pain sur la planche
- keep up the good work → continuer comme ça
- men at work → attention travaux (panneau routier)
- out-of-work (adjectif) → au chômage
- work like a charm (familier) → fonctionner/marcher à merveille
- work like mad (familier) → bosser comme un malade
- work somebody into a frenzy → exciter quelqu’un
- work up an appetite → se mettre en appétit
- work wonders → faire des miracles
- work yourself up → s’énerver
