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# faisant — French to English

How French *faisant* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 3 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: faisant (137 389), faisante (2). By style: everyday 84 · literary 45 · biblical 82 · parliamentary 5 592 · legal and administrative 26 109 · UN documents 105 479.

## doing

Used about 13 033 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 25 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 12 · parliamentary ≈ 816 · legal and administrative ≈ 1 632 · UN documents ≈ 10 548).

- On apprend en **faisant**.
  We learn by **doing**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#9180917](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/9180917) [\#12785154](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12785154))

- Parfois, tout en **faisant** épeler l'enfant, il songeait que c'était avec l'idée de faire le mal qu'il avait appris à lire au bagne.
  Sometimes, as he made the child spell, he remembered that it was with the idea of **doing** evil that he had learned to read in prison.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 9483)

- Heureux ce serviteur, que son maître, à son arrivée, trouvera **faisant** ainsi!
  Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds **doing** so when he comes.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAT 24:46)

- Ce **faisant**, Mme Roure a fait de l’excellent travail.
  In **doing** so, Mrs Roure has done a great job.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 825455)

- Ce **faisant**, les États membres devraient respecter le principe d'efficacité et de proportionnalité.
  In **doing** so, Member States should respect the principle of efficiency and proportionality.
  ([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 3918685)

## only

Used about 9 303 times in the texts (literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 117 · legal and administrative ≈ 7 071 · UN documents ≈ 2 110). Meaning: [only in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/only/).

- —Je te vois abattu comme avant, et **faisant** encore entendre des paroles de désespoir!»
  "I see you just as feeble-minded as you were before, and still expressing **only** despair!"
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · verne journey centre earth, row 1832)

- A cause de cela, les Juifs cherchaient encore plus à le faire mourir, non seulement parce qu’il violait le sabbat, mais parce qu’il appelait Dieu son propre Père, se **faisant** lui-même égal à Dieu.
  For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not **only** broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 5:18)

- Il faut accomplir des choix forts, en sortant du cercle vicieux **faisant** qu'une dette en produit une autre, et éliminer les dettes une fois pour toutes.
  Tough decisions must be taken to break the vicious circle of debt which **only** produces more; debts should be written off once and for all.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1904782)

- (Le texte en langue grecque est le seul **faisant** foi.)
  (**Only** the Greek text is authentic)
  ([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 3844330)

- Les informations **faisant** état de graves violations des droits de l &apos; homme en RPDC ne font de plus qu &apos; exacerber les problèmes politiques.
  Reports of serious human rights violations in the country **only** exacerbated the political problems.
  ([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 11975718)

## so

Used about 125 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 2 · literary ≈ 2 · biblical ≈ 5 · parliamentary ≈ 117). Meaning: [so in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/so/).

- Avec Tatoeba en version Android, on pourra traduire Flaubert tout en **faisant** l'amour, ouvrant ainsi la voie à des niveaux de plaisir jusqu'alors inexplorés...
  With the Android version of Tatoeba, we'll be able to translate Flaubert while making love, opening the path to **so** far unexplored levels of pleasure.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and sacredceltic · checked, community translation · [\#1077004](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1077004) [\#1076247](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1076247))

- Cette procession, que nos lecteurs ont vue partir du Palais, s'était organisée chemin **faisant**, et recrutée de tout ce qu'il y avait à Paris de marauds, de voleurs oisifs, et de vagabonds disponibles; aussi présentait-elle un aspect respectable lorsqu'elle arriva en Grève.
  This procession, which our readers have seen set out from the Palais de Justice, had organized on the way, and had been recruited by all the knaves, idle thieves, and unemployed vagabonds in Paris; **so** that it presented a very respectable aspect when it arrived at the Grève.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 973)

- Ainsi, tu dois faire disparaître du milieu de toi le sang innocent, en **faisant** ce qui est droit aux yeux de l’Éternel.
  **So** you shall put away the innocent blood from among you, when you shall do that which is right in the LORD’s eyes.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 21:9)

- Pour ce qui est des enseignants, ils sont considérés comme **faisant** partie de l'infrastructure et sont par conséquent fournis également par les États membres.
  Concerning teachers, they count as part of the infrastructure, **so** teachers are also provided by Member States.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1140910)

- Était-ce que le ciel était gris? que la boucle de son vieux ceinturon de Montlhéry était mal serrée, et sanglait trop militairement son embonpoint de prévôt? qu'il avait vu passer dans la rue sous sa fenêtre des ribauds lui **faisant** nargue, allant quatre de bande, pourpoint sans chemise, chapeau sans fond, bissac et bouteille au côté?
  Was it because the sky was gray? or was the buckle of his old belt of Montlhéry badly fastened, **so** that it confined his provostal portliness too closely? had he beheld ribald fellows, marching in bands of four, beneath his window, and setting him at defiance, in doublets but no shirts, hats without crowns, with wallet and bottle at their side?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo notre dame, row 2836)

## More sentences

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

- Stanley a fait fortune en **faisant** de la contrebande de produits de luxe entre Macao et la Chine.
  Stanley built his fortune smuggling luxury goods from Macau to China.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and Hybrid · checked, community translation · [\#8797638](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8797638) [\#10116438](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10116438))

- La rue grouillait de gens **faisant** leurs courses.
  The street was bustling with shoppers.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CM · checked, community translation · [\#278367](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/278367) [\#459692](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/459692))

- Ils espèrent augmenter la production de nourriture en **faisant** pousser de nouvelles variétés de riz.
  They intend to increase food production by cultivating new kinds of rice.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sysko and sundown · checked, community translation · [\#8286781](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/8286781) [\#339605](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/339605))

## Grammar

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