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# faits — French to English

How French *faits* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 2 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: faits (126 227). By style: everyday 183 · literary 26 · biblical 52 · parliamentary 4 760 · legal and administrative 4 699 · UN documents 116 507.

## facts

Used about 22 118 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 88 · literary ≈ 17 · parliamentary ≈ 2 380 · legal and administrative ≈ 2 643 · UN documents ≈ 16 991).

- 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 &apos; 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)

## made

Used about 20 759 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 34 · literary ≈ 1 · biblical ≈ 23 · parliamentary ≈ 793 · legal and administrative ≈ 489 · UN documents ≈ 19 418).

- Les yeux sont **faits** pour voir.
  Eyes were **made** for seeing.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by felix63 and CarpeLanam · checked, community translation · [\#7133788](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7133788) [\#10360608](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10360608))

- Ajoutons que l'inqualifiable ordonnance Gisquet, qui enjoignait aux médecins de dénoncer les blessés, ayant indigné l'opinion, et non seulement l'opinion, mais le roi tout le premier, les blessés furent couverts et protégés par cette indignation; et, à l'exception de ceux qui avaient été **faits** prisonniers dans le combat flagrant, les conseils de guerre n'osèrent en inquiéter aucun.
  Let us add, that the inexcusable Gisquet order, which enjoined doctors to lodge information against the wounded, having outraged public opinion, and not opinion alone, but the King first of all, the wounded were covered and protected by this indignation; and, with the exception of those who had been **made** prisoners in the very act of combat, the councils of war did not dare to trouble any one.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28858)

- L’oreille qui entend, et l’œil qui voit, C’est l’Éternel qui les a **faits** l’un et l’autre.
  The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD has **made** even both of them.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · PRO 20:12)

- Tous ces efforts sont **faits** dans l'agriculture.
  All these efforts are being **made** in terms of agriculture.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1128490)

- Nappes de fourrures - y compris les tapis **faits** de plusieurs peaux
  plates of fur skins — includes rugs if **made** of several skins
  ([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 4904577)

## More sentences

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

- Toi et moi sommes **faits** du même bois !
  You and I, we're two of a kind!
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by menaud and menaud · checked, community translation · [\#12999787](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12999787) [\#12999784](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/12999784))

- L'ensemble du débat public et politique est basé sur des conjectures et non sur des **faits**.
  The entire public and political debate is based on conjecture, not on fact.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and dgibbons · checked, community translation · [\#1890523](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1890523) [\#10535836](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/10535836))

- Ça se base sur des **faits**.
  This is based on fact.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#55600](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/55600) [\#1328763](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1328763))

## Grammar

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