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# doing — English to French

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

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: doing (39 876), doings (76). By style: everyday 2 144 · literary 29 · biblical 118 · parliamentary 11 376 · legal and administrative 1 484 · UN documents 24 801.

## faisant

Used about 5 179 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 44 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 7 · parliamentary ≈ 798 · legal and administrative ≈ 464 · UN documents ≈ 3 865).

- I got injured **doing** that.
  Je me suis blessée en **faisant** ça.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and GB3 · checked, community translation · [\#6845025](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6845025) [\#6845475](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6845475))

- Sometimes, as he made the child spell, he remembered that it was with the idea of **doing** evil that he had learned to read in prison.
  Parfois, tout en **faisant** épeler l'enfant, il songeait que c'était avec l'idée de faire le mal qu'il avait appris à lire au bagne.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9483)

- Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds **doing** so when he comes.
  Heureux ce serviteur, que son maître, à son arrivée, trouvera **faisant** ainsi!
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 24:46)

- In so **doing** he has dishonoured the Committee on Women's Rights and ignored the very real inequalities that exist.
  Ce **faisant**, il a déshonoré la commission des droits de la femme et ignoré des inégalités très réelles.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 999832)

- In so **doing**, the Commission shall review, inter alia:
  Ce **faisant**, la Commission examine notamment:
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · 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 2637916)

## More sentences

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

- When I returned home, my brother was **doing** his homework.
  Quand je suis rentrée chez moi, mon frère faisait ses devoirs.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and mookeee · checked, community translation · [\#246688](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/246688) [\#1077826](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1077826))

- He seemed to know what he was **doing**.
  Il avait l'air de savoir ce qu'il faisait.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Hybrid and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#3511285](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3511285) [\#3530966](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3530966))

- Computers are capable of **doing** very complicated work in a split second.
  Les ordinateurs peuvent faire un travail très compliqué en une fraction de seconde.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and Lulantis · checked, community translation · [\#54546](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/54546) [\#11573](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11573))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-en/) · [translating into French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-fr/).

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