face — English to French

How English face is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 2 translations with example sentences.

What it means: face in the Elamur Dictionary.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: face (57 330), faces (8 724). By style: everyday 676 · literary 192 · biblical 382 · parliamentary 8 661 · legal and administrative 3 059 · UN documents 53 084.

face

Used about 15 971 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 162 · literary ≈ 80 · biblical ≈ 165 · parliamentary ≈ 1 444 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 402 · UN documents ≈ 12 718). Forms: face, faces.

• Tom faces a conundrum.

  Tom fait face à un dilemme.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and Scott · checked, community translation · #1690510 #1692445

• The master’s face appeared.

  La face du maître apparut.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 3419

• He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.

  Il couvre la face de son trône, Il répand sur lui sa nuée.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 26:9

• We must face up to reality.

  Il faut regarder la réalité en face.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1176800

• With parallel flange faces

  à ailes à faces parallèles

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 3011697

visage

Used about 3 066 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 183 · literary ≈ 54 · biblical ≈ 97 · parliamentary ≈ 361 · legal and administrative ≈ 159 · UN documents ≈ 2 212).

• Mary is washing her face.

  Marie se lave le visage.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and felix63 · checked, community translation · #6691638 #6557440

• M. Madeleine wiped his face, and said:—

  M. Madeleine s'essuya le visage, et dit:

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 4306

• My face is red with weeping. Deep darkness is on my eyelids,

  Les pleurs ont altéré mon visage; L’ombre de la mort est sur mes paupières.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOB 16:16

• The victims need to be given faces.

  Il faut donner un visage aux victimes.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1477606

• Wear cold insulating gloves/face shield/eye protection.

  Porter des gants isolants contre le froid/un équipement de protection des yeux/du visage

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 1637937

More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

• Gustavo smashed Rima’s face.

  Gustavo a maravé Rima.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Myrano_ · checked, community translation · #11769550 #14062131

• Europe must face the problems posed by its ageing population.

  L'Europe doit affronter les problèmes que pose le vieillissement de sa population.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Ginette · checked, community translation · #12217924 #3422517

• I've seen that face before.

  J'ai déjà vu cette tête.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by DJ_Saidez and lbdx · checked, community translation · #9471917 #12335985

Grammar

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