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# face — French to English

How French *face* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 6 translations with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: face (151 575), faces (2 141). By style: everyday 314 · literary 100 · biblical 305 · parliamentary 15 857 · legal and administrative 7 767 · UN documents 129 373.

## face

Used about 48 763 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 135 · literary ≈ 73 · biblical ≈ 200 · parliamentary ≈ 1 321 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 214 · UN documents ≈ 45 820). Forms: face, faces. Meaning: [face in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/face/).

- Tom fait **face** à un dilemme.
  Tom **faces** a conundrum.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1690510](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1690510) [\#1692445](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1692445))

- La **face** du maître apparut.
  The master’s **face** appeared.
  ([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)

- Il couvre la **face** de son trône, Il répand sur lui sa nuée.
  He encloses the **face** of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.
  ([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)

- Il faut regarder la réalité en **face**.
  We must **face** up to reality.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1176800)

- à ailes à **faces** parallèles
  With parallel flange **faces**
  ([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)

## sides

Used about 27 608 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · parliamentary ≈ 6 442 · legal and administrative ≈ 3 641 · UN documents ≈ 17 519). Forms: side, sides.

- Chaque chose a deux **faces**.
  There are two **sides** to everything.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#11157070](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11157070) [\#13478998](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/13478998))

- Ce rapport a deux **faces**.
  This report has two **sides** to it.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1620955)

- est métallisée sur une **face**,
  is metallised on one **side**,
  ([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 1332481)

- Ce sont les deux **faces** de la même médaille.
  These are two **sides** of the same coin.
  ([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 10691072)

- Ce sont les deux **faces** d'une même pièce.
  They are two **sides** of the same coin.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 407132)

## coin

Used about 1 354 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · UN documents ≈ 1 348). Meaning: [coin in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/coin/).

- Décidons à pile ou **face**.
  Let's decide by **coin** toss.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Hautis · checked, community translation · [\#355604](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/355604) [\#1060417](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1060417))

- C &apos; est ainsi qu &apos; il faut comprendre que l &apos; interdépendance associée à la mondialisation a deux **faces**.
  And so it must be appreciated that the interdependence associated with globalization is a two-sided **coin**.
  ([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 5835239)

## both

Used about 1 348 times in the texts (UN documents ≈ 1 348). Meaning: [both in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/both/).

- Toutefois une croissance plus rapide aura pour effet d &apos; accroître les ressources et d &apos; élargir les possibilités de changement, deux facteurs importants **face** à ces autres priorités.
  However, higher growth will provide increased resources and greater scope for change, **both** of which should be used to address these other priorities.
  ([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 6941794)

## two

Used about 576 times in the texts (parliamentary ≈ 496 · legal and administrative ≈ 81). Meaning: [two in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/two/).

- L' action de l' Union européenne comporte deux **faces** essentielles.
  The European Union' s action consists of **two** main areas.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 2016626)

- Rouleaux de ruban adhésif à double **face**:
  Rolls of **two**-sided adhesive tape:
  ([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 4119877)

- (LT) Monsieur le Président, Mesdames et Messieurs, le nazisme et le communisme forment les deux **faces** d'une même médaille.
  (LT) Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Nazism and communism are **two** banks of one river.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 945521)

- Il y a une monnaie à deux **faces**, c'est la monnaie-stabilité et la monnaie-solidarité, et au milieu, il y a la responsabilité.
  We have a **two**-sided currency: stability on the one side and solidarity on the other side, with responsibility in the middle.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1458317)

## same

Used about 162 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 162). Meaning: [same in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/same/).

- Mêmes prescriptions que pour le choc **face** à l’avant.
  **Same** requirements as for frontal impact.
  ([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 5492847)

- Dans le même temps, il fixe des normes élevées de qualité et de sécurité des dispositifs médicaux afin de faire **face** aux enjeux communs de sécurité relatifs à ces produits.
  At the **same** time, this Regulation sets high standards of quality and safety for medical devices in order to meet common safety concerns as regards such products.
  ([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 4311930)

## More sentences

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

- Le régime algérien, incapable de faire **face** à un contexte intérieur inflammable, cherche la guerre sous n'importe quel prétexte.
  The Algerian regime, unable to cope with an inflammatory internal context, seeks war under any pretext.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Igider · checked, community translation · [\#10489502](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10489502) [\#10489498](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10489498))

- Nous reculâmes **face** à l'offensive ennemie.
  We recoiled from the enemy's offensive.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and AlanF\_US · checked, community translation · [\#28769](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/28769) [\#7811169](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7811169))

- Elle passe ses soirées en **face** de son ordinateur portable.
  She spends her evenings in front of her laptop.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1756914](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1756914) [\#1759944](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1759944))

## Grammar

Notes on grammar and translation on Mova: [French grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/fr/) · [English grammar](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/en/) · [translating between English and French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/pairs/en-fr/) · [translating from French](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/from-fr/) · [translating into English](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/languages/translation/into-en/).

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