Trouble Spots
WORK: (le) travail, (il) travaille
Travail and travaille sound alike, look very similar, and they both mean "work."
BUT, one's a noun and the other is a verb and can only be used with a subject.
How to tell them apart? Facile: The verb has a verb ending (-e); the noun doesn't.
• le travail (noun)
Nous avons toujours trop de travail.
Le travail pour ce cours est facile.
• je/il/elle/on travaille (verb + a subject to tell who's "working")
Je travaille si je veux; je ne travaille pas si je ne veux pas. Nah!