faits — French to English

How French faits is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: faits (126 227). By style: everyday 183 · literary 26 · biblical 52 · parliamentary 4 760 · legal and administrative 4 699 · UN documents 116 507.

facts

Used about 22 118 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 88 · literary ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 2 380 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 643 · UN documents ≈ 16 991).

• Faisons face aux faits.

  Let's face facts.

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

• Constatons 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 26964

• Quels 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 475882

• l'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 1580776

• Rappel 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

made

Used about 20 759 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 34 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 23 · parliamentary ≈ 793 · legal and administrative ≈ 489 · UN documents ≈ 19 418).

• Les yeux sont faits pour voir.

  Eyes were made for seeing.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and CarpeLanam · checked, community translation · #7133788 #10360608

• Ajoutons que l'inqualifiable ordonnance Gisquet, qui enjoignait aux médecins de dénoncer les blessés, ayant indigné l'opinion, et non seulement l'opinion, mais le roi tout le premier, les blessés furent couverts et protégés par cette indignation; et, à l'exception de ceux qui avaient été faits prisonniers dans le combat flagrant, les conseils de guerre n'osèrent en inquiéter aucun.

  Let us add, that the inexcusable Gisquet order, which enjoined doctors to lodge information against the wounded, having outraged public opinion, and not opinion alone, but the King first of all, the wounded were covered and protected by this indignation; and, with the exception of those who had been made prisoners in the very act of combat, the councils of war did not dare to trouble any one.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28858

• L’oreille qui entend, et l’œil qui voit, C’est l’Éternel qui les a faits l’un et l’autre.

  The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD has made even both of them.

  World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910 · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 20:12

• Tous ces efforts sont faits dans l'agriculture.

  All these efforts are being made in terms of agriculture.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1128490

• Nappes de fourrures - y compris les tapis faits de plusieurs peaux

  plates of fur skins — includes rugs if made of several skins

  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 4904577

More sentences

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

• Toi et moi sommes faits du même bois !

  You and I, we're two of a kind!

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · #12999787 #12999784

• L'ensemble du débat public et politique est basé sur des conjectures et non sur des faits.

  The entire public and political debate is based on conjecture, not on fact.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and dgibbons · checked, community translation · #1890523 #10535836

• Ça se base sur des faits.

  This is based on fact.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · #55600 #1328763

Grammar

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