fait — French to English
How French fait is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 translations with example sentences.
The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.
Sentence pairs counted, by form: fait (1 113 693), faite (79 593), faites (89 792), faits (126 227). By style: everyday 11 568 · literary 488 · biblical 1 655 · parliamentary 124 365 · legal and administrative 131 987 · UN documents 1 139 242.
made
Used about 485 598 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 868 · literary ≈ 71 · biblical ≈ 483 · parliamentary ≈ 22 023 · legal and administrative ≈ 39 871 · UN documents ≈ 421 282).
Je l'ai déjà faite.
I've already made it.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · #2358894 #5792034Machine faite d'esprit.
A machine made of mind.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19265Notre secours est dans le nom de l’Éternel, Qui a fait les cieux et la terre.
Our help is in the LORD’s name, who made heaven and earth.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 124:8J'entends les critiques qui en sont faites.
I hear the criticisms that are made of it.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1517512Article 30: Déclarations faites par les Parties contractantes
Article 30: Declarations Made by Contracting Parties
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 863972
facts
Used about 82 366 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 386 · literary ≈ 53 · parliamentary ≈ 14 898 · legal and administrative ≈ 18 561 · UN documents ≈ 47 468).
Faisons face aux faits.
Let's face facts.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rtroisgr and CK · checked, community translation · #2007864 #432115Constatons ces faits avec calme.
Let us state these facts calmly.
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26964Quels sont les faits dans ce dossier?
What are the facts of the case?
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 475882l'exposé sommaire des faits;
a summary of the facts;
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 1580776Rappel des faits présentés par l ' auteur
Facts as presented by the author
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 25971550
done
Used about 62 228 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 964 · literary ≈ 31 · biblical ≈ 181 · parliamentary ≈ 3 886 · legal and administrative ≈ 27 497 · UN documents ≈ 29 668). Meaning: done in the Elamur Dictionary.
Ça ne peut pas être fait.
It cannot be done.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · #1749291 #1763333Qu'est-ce que je vous ai fait?
What have I done to you?
Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30910Que tout ce que vous faites se fasse avec charité!
Let all that you do be done in love.
World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 16:14Je pense donc que quelque chose a effectivement été fait.
So I think something was, in fact, done.
Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1290660Fait à Bruxelles, le 30 mai 2006.
Done at Brussels, 30 May 2006.
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 983460
More sentences
Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.
Tom a fait exprès de casser la fenêtre.
Tom broke the window on purpose.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and CK · checked, community translation · #2956167 #4192515Chaque homme est coupable de tout le bien qu'il n'a pas fait.
Everyone is guilty of all the good they did not do.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · #5624349 #5624338Je sais que Tom l'aurait fait.
I know that Tom might do that.
Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tras and CK · checked, community translation · #7520487 #7529585
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