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# fact — English to French

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

What it means: [fact in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/fact/).

Sentence pairs counted, by form: fact (209 341), facts (33 958). By style: everyday 361 · literary 132 · parliamentary 48 699 · legal and administrative 20 479 · UN documents 173 628.

## fait

Used about 151 810 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 305 · literary ≈ 53 · parliamentary ≈ 27 900 · legal and administrative ≈ 13 226 · UN documents ≈ 110 326). Forms: fait, faits.

- That's a **fact**.
  C'est un **fait**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1756836](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1756836) [\#1759994](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1759994))

- Right overthrowing the **fact**.
  Le droit terrassant le **fait**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18051)

- The **facts** speak very clearly for themselves.
  Les **faits** sont parlants.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1779306)

- confirmation of the **fact** that the product was:
  la confirmation du **fait** que le produit:
  ([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 2344996)

- (a) The seriousness of the **facts**;
  La gravité des **faits**;
  ([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 25887267)

## More sentences

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

- He swore he had photographic memory, despite the **fact** he couldn't remember what he ate last night for dinner.
  Il affirmait avoir une mémoire photographique, même s'il ne se souvenait pas de ce qu'il avait mangé hier soir pour le dîner.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by swolesuki and Micsmithel · checked, community translation · [\#6907377](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6907377) [\#10781304](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10781304))

- Is faith that does not act, even true faith in **fact**?
  La foi qui n'agit point, est-ce une foi sincère ?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by zogwarg and Rovo · checked, community translation · [\#11886919](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11886919) [\#1484436](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1484436))

- He looks as though he's sleeping, but in **fact** he's dead.
  Il a l'air de dormir mais il est en réalité mort.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by AlanF\_US and Aiji · checked, community translation · [\#5018777](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5018777) [\#8457713](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8457713))

## 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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