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# make — English to French

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

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

Sentence pairs counted, by form: make (343 363), makes (48 796). By style: everyday 4 172 · literary 190 · biblical 964 · parliamentary 69 776 · legal and administrative 31 472 · UN documents 285 585.

## faire

Used about 55 379 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 652 · literary ≈ 21 · biblical ≈ 50 · parliamentary ≈ 8 722 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 311 · UN documents ≈ 44 623).

- Don't **make** me do this.
  Ne me faites pas **faire** ça !
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1860436](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1860436) [\#2061884](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2061884))

- “Little one, **make** your goat perform a miracle.”
  «Petite, fais donc **faire** un miracle à ta chèvre.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 3801)

- and one male goat, to **make** atonement for you.
  Vous offrirez un bouc, afin de **faire** pour vous l’expiation.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 28:30)

- We must dare to **make** real choices.
  Nous devons oser **faire** de véritables choix.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1315345)

- All interested parties were given the opportunity to **make** their views known pursuant to Article 21(2) of the basic Regulation.
  Toutes les parties intéressées ont eu la possibilité de **faire** connaître leur avis, conformément à l'article 21, paragraphe 2, du règlement de base.
  ([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 3260241)

## More sentences

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

- I want to **make** it up to you.
  Je veux m’acquitter auprès de toi.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#2033392](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2033392) [\#11064362](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11064362))

- If you hurry, you can **make** it.
  Si tu te dépêches, tu peux y arriver.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by bluepie88 and U2FS · checked, community translation · [\#662668](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/662668) [\#662868](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/662868))

- I wanted to **make** a few phone calls.
  Je voulais passer quelques appels.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eldad and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1329278](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1329278) [\#1331491](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1331491))

## 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

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