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By style: everyday 11 568 · literary 488 · biblical 1 655 · parliamentary 124 365 · legal and administrative 131 987 · UN documents 1 139 242. ## made Used about 485 598 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 868 · literary ≈ 71 · biblical ≈ 483 · parliamentary ≈ 22 023 · legal and administrative ≈ 39 871 · UN documents ≈ 421 282). - Je l'ai déjà **faite**. I've already **made** it. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Aiji and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2358894](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2358894) [\#5792034](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5792034)) - Machine **faite** d'esprit. A machine **made** of mind. ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 19265) - Notre secours est dans le nom de l’Éternel, Qui a **fait** les cieux et la terre. Our help is in the LORD’s name, who **made** heaven and earth. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PSA 124:8) - J'entends les critiques qui en sont **faites**. I hear the criticisms that are **made** of it. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1517512) - Article 30: Déclarations **faites** par les Parties contractantes Article 30: Declarations **Made** by Contracting Parties ([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 863972) ## facts Used about 82 366 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 1 386 · literary ≈ 53 · parliamentary ≈ 14 898 · legal and administrative ≈ 18 561 · UN documents ≈ 47 468). - Faisons face aux **faits**. Let's face **facts**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by rtroisgr and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2007864](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2007864) [\#432115](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/432115)) - Constatons ces **faits** avec calme. Let us state these **facts** calmly. ([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) - Quels sont les **faits** dans ce dossier? What are the **facts** of the case? ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 475882) - l'exposé sommaire des **faits**; a summary of the **facts**; ([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 1580776) - Rappel des **faits** présentés par l ' auteur **Facts** as presented by the author ([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 25971550) ## done Used about 62 228 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 964 · literary ≈ 31 · biblical ≈ 181 · parliamentary ≈ 3 886 · legal and administrative ≈ 27 497 · UN documents ≈ 29 668). Meaning: [done in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/done/). - Ça ne peut pas être **fait**. It cannot be **done**. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1749291](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1749291) [\#1763333](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1763333)) - Qu'est-ce que je vous ai **fait**? What have I **done** to you? ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 30910) - Que tout ce que vous **faites** se fasse avec charité! Let all that you do be **done** in love. ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1CO 16:14) - Je pense donc que quelque chose a effectivement été **fait**. So I think something was, in fact, **done**. ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1290660) - **Fait** à Bruxelles, le 30 mai 2006. **Done** at Brussels, 30 May 2006. ([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 983460) ## More sentences Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out. - Tom a **fait** exprès de casser la fenêtre. Tom broke the window on purpose. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Amastan and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2956167](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2956167) [\#4192515](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4192515)) - Chaque homme est coupable de tout le bien qu'il n'a pas **fait**. Everyone is guilty of all the good they did not do. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Adelpa and Adelpa · checked, community translation · [\#5624349](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5624349) [\#5624338](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5624338)) - Je sais que Tom l'aurait **fait**. I know that Tom might do that. ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by tras and CK · checked, community translation · [\#7520487](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7520487) [\#7529585](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7529585)) ## 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/). ## About these examples Translations are found by how often the two words stand in the same sentence pairs, and the highlighted words are matched automatically: both are approximate. Counts are estimated from a sample of each source. 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