great effort on behalf of

[puppyriley]

Bonjour--

I would like to say: "We made a great effort on behalf of this new student."

I've looked at threads for

de la part de.
pour le compte de,
au profit de
au bénéfice de

It appears to me that the first two are used to mean "as a representative of," so I am left with the other two. I'm not really happy with these, because they seem to imply an actual benefit received, whereas the English version focuses only the effort made. (I'm not all sure that I'm translating incorrectly.) What would be the best translation for on behalf of in this context?

Merci d'avance

 

[Michelvar]

Hi,

I guess it's "en faveur de", but could you explain the context?

Why not just use "pour"?

 

[puppyriley]

Thanks, michelvar. The context is just a sustained effort to help someone with something. I'm trying to avoid suggesting that the efforts were successful, only that we tried.

I guess that "pour" gets the idea across, but it's not really a translation of the English.

 

[Michelvar]

So, "en faveur de" might do the trick.

 

[puppyriley]

OK, thanks. I just noticed in the wordref dictionary that "in support of" also translates to "en faveur de", so there's yet another vote for your suggestion.