🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

trabalho

Pronunciation / Transliteration: trabalho

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Work/wɜːk/
nounverbCEFR A1 (Beginner)Top #85 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Ele começa o trabalho cedo."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    Activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result.

    "She goes to work every morning at eight o'clock."
As verb
  1. 1

    To engage in physical or mental effort in order to achieve a purpose or result.

    "He works hard to support his family."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English 'weorc', of Germanic origin, tracing back to the Proto-Germanic '*werkan' and the Indo-European root '*werg-', meaning 'to do' or 'to make'. Through the centuries, the term has evolved from physical exertion and product creation to encompass intellectual labor, employment, and mechanical functioning.

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