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# faced — English to French

How English *faced* is translated into French in open, checked parallel texts: 4 translations 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: faced (42 828), faceds (1). By style: everyday 34 · literary 6 · biblical 2 · parliamentary 4 175 · legal and administrative 1 135 · UN documents 37 477.

## difficultés

Used about 7 160 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 87 · legal and administrative ≈ 189 · UN documents ≈ 6 884).

- In the 1990s, Germany had the political vision to push for the launching of the euro, despite the difficulties **faced** with its reunification process.
  Dans les années 90, l'Allemagne a eu la vision politique de pousser en faveur du lancement de l'euro malgré les **difficultés** provoquées par le processus de réunification.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1419702)

- The difficulties **faced** by the Group, especially by its automotive division, have immediate repercussions on BPF (and vice versa).
  Les **difficultés** du groupe, et notamment de sa division automobile, ont des répercussions immédiates sur BPF (et vice-versa).
  ([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 3874507)

- 23. The monitoring mechanisms **faced** two basic difficulties.
  23. Les mécanismes de suivi se sont heurtés à deux grandes **difficultés**.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 8781986)

- Productivity decreased by 11 % overall following the unexpected technical difficulties **faced** by one Union producer.
  La productivité a globalement diminué de 11 % à la suite de **difficultés** techniques inattendues rencontrées par un producteur de l’Union.
  ([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 2416412)

- The Secretariat should clarify the difficulties it had **faced** in that regard.
  Il devrait préciser les **difficultés** qu &apos; il a rencontrées à cet égard.
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 8829619)

## face

Used about 5 921 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 7 · literary ≈ 3 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 1 131 · legal and administrative ≈ 189 · UN documents ≈ 4 589).

- He **faced** toward the sea.
  Il faisait **face** à la mer.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and pierrephi · checked, community translation · [\#294671](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/294671) [\#339366](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/339366))

- Then she set her back against the gate, **faced** the six ruffians who were armed to the teeth, and to whom the night lent the visages of demons, and said in a firm, low voice:—
  Alors elle s'adossa à la grille, fit **face** aux six bandits armés jusqu'aux dents et à qui la nuit donnait des visages de démons, et dit d'une voix ferme et basse:
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 22078)

- Outside of the inner gate were rooms for the singers in the inner court, which was at the side of the north gate. They **faced** toward the south. One at the side of the east gate **faced** toward the north.
  En dehors de la porte intérieure il y avait des chambres pour les chantres, dans le parvis intérieur: l’une était à côté de la porte septentrionale et avait la **face** au midi, l’autre était à côté de la porte orientale et avait la face au septentrion.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · EZE 40:44)

- I would like to say to them that we are **faced** with a critical choice.
  Je voudrais leur dire que nous nous trouvons **face** à un choix crucial.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 374592)

- **Faced** with such a choice, any market economy investor would have selected the second option.
  **Face** à ce choix, tout investisseur en économie de marché aurait choisi la deuxième option.
  ([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 4203921)

## problèmes

Used about 5 774 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 348 · legal and administrative ≈ 71 · UN documents ≈ 5 354).

- I am **faced** with a mountain of problems.
  Je suis confronté à une montagne de **problèmes**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by raggione and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2470363](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2470363) [\#2470551](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2470551))

- At the same time, however, it also highlights the problems that are still **faced** by both Romania and Bulgaria.
  Dans le même temps, il souligne toutefois également les **problèmes** que rencontrent encore la Roumanie et la Bulgarie.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 731562)

- According to the annual report for 2002, Sachsen Zweirad GmbH also **faced** liquidity problems.
  D’après son rapport d’activité de 2002, Sachsen Zweirad GmbH était également en proie à des **problèmes** de liquidités.
  ([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 1142076)

- What were the problems **faced** by people in those categories, and what had been the major incidents involving them?
  Quels sont les **problèmes** auxquels se heurtent les personnes appartenant à ces catégories et comment se caractérisent les incidents qui les concernent ?
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 4888152)

- It is probable that this did not happen due to a lack of awareness of some of the key problems **faced** by the sector.
  Il est probable que cela n'a pas été le cas à cause d'un manque de prise de conscience de certains des principaux **problèmes** que rencontre le secteur.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1448311)

## confrontés

Used about 1 169 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 9 · parliamentary ≈ 348 · legal and administrative ≈ 47 · UN documents ≈ 765).

- We are **faced** with a difficult choice.
  Nous sommes **confrontés** à un choix difficile.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and belgavox · checked, community translation · [\#249129](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/249129) [\#1184208](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1184208))

- We are **faced** with quite different challenges than was the case 10 or 15 years ago.
  Nous sommes **confrontés** à des défis très différents de ceux que nous avions à relever il y a 10 ou 15 ans.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1323308)

- Furthermore, due to the small number of operators in the market, the terrestrial network operators **faced** only a limited competitive constraint.
  En outre, compte tenu du petit nombre d'opérateurs existants sur le marché, les opérateurs de réseau terrestre étaient **confrontés** à une pression concurrentielle faible.
  ([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 3146570)

- (e) Involve artists, poets, musicians and writers, particularly those who have personally **faced** the challenges of leprosy, in reaching society;
  e) Encourager les artistes, poètes, musiciens et écrivains, en particulier ceux qui ont été personnellement **confrontés** aux épreuves liées à la lèpre, à sensibiliser la société à ce sujet;
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 20341275)

- We've **faced** this problem before.
  Nous avons déjà été **confrontés** à ce problème.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5553287](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5553287) [\#8064885](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8064885))

## More sentences

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

- It's a bald-**faced** fabrication.
  C'est une machination éhontée.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Myrano\_ and Myrano\_ · checked, community translation · [\#13994625](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13994625) [\#13994626](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13994626))

- Don't trust him. He's very two-**faced**.
  Ne lui fais pas confiance. Il est très hypocrite.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by \_undertoad and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#2265883](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2265883) [\#11702702](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11702702))

- **Faced** with deciding to respond scientifically or emotionally, I'd prefer the latter.
  Me trouvant devant l'alternative de répondre de manière scientifique ou de manière émotionnelle, je préfère cette dernière.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by \_undertoad and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#3210717](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3210717) [\#1650239](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1650239))

## 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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