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Tom fait **face** à un dilemme. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#1690510](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1690510) [\#1692445](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1692445)) - The master’s **face** appeared. La **face** du maître apparut. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · 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](https://ebible.org/) · 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](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](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 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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#6691638](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6691638) [\#6557440](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/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)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · 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](https://ebible.org/) · 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](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · 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](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 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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#11769550](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11769550) [\#14062131](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/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](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sundown and Ginette · checked, community translation · [\#12217924](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12217924) [\#3422517](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3422517)) - I've seen that **face** before. J'ai déjà vu cette tête. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by DJ\_Saidez and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#9471917](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9471917) [\#12335985](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12335985)) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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