facts — English to French

How English facts is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: facts (33 958). By style: everyday 100 · literary 19 · parliamentary 2 586 · legal and administrative 4 879 · UN documents 26 374.

faits

Used about 23 377 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 90 · literary ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 1 886 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 253 · UN documents ≈ 18 132).

• Let's face facts.

  Faisons face aux faits.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and rtroisgr · checked, community translation · #2007864 #432115

• Let us state these facts calmly.

  Constatons ces faits avec calme.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26964

• The facts speak very clearly for themselves.

  Les faits sont parlants.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1779306

• of medical facts concerning their medical history;

  les faits médicaux de leur historique médical;

  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 3602799

• (a) The seriousness of the facts;

  La gravité des faits;

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 25887267

More sentences

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

• At some point, we have to face facts.

  À un moment donné, il faut se rendre à l'évidence.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · #10560968 #10568835

• New facts about ancient China have recently come to light.

  De nouveaux éléments au sujet de la Chine ancienne ont récemment vu le jour.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and U2FS · checked, community translation · #239883 #841966

• You need to face the facts.

  Il faut que tu te rendes à l'évidence.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and felix63 · checked, community translation · #777284 #777283

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