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# facts — English to French

How English *facts* 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: facts (33 958). By style: everyday 100 · literary 19 · parliamentary 2 586 · legal and administrative 4 879 · UN documents 26 374.

## faits

Used about 23 377 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 90 · literary ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 1 886 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 253 · UN documents ≈ 18 132).

- Let's face **facts**.
  Faisons face aux **faits**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and rtroisgr · checked, community translation · [\#2007864](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2007864) [\#432115](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/432115))

- Let us state these **facts** calmly.
  Constatons ces **faits** avec calme.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 26964)

- 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)

- of medical **facts** concerning their medical history;
  les **faits** médicaux de leur historique médical;
  ([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 3602799)

- (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.

- At some point, we have to face **facts**.
  À un moment donné, il faut se rendre à l'évidence.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and lbdx · checked, community translation · [\#10560968](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10560968) [\#10568835](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10568835))

- New **facts** about ancient China have recently come to light.
  De nouveaux éléments au sujet de la Chine ancienne ont récemment vu le jour.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CN and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#239883](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/239883) [\#841966](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/841966))

- You need to face the **facts**.
  Il faut que tu te rendes à l'évidence.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CM and felix63 · checked, community translation · [\#777284](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/777284) [\#777283](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/777283))

## 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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