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# faut — French to English

How French *faut* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 5 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: faut (213 590), faute (29 650), fautes (2 966). By style: everyday 3 269 · literary 163 · biblical 120 · parliamentary 50 168 · legal and administrative 5 734 · UN documents 186 752.

## misconduct

Used about 47 803 times in the texts (legal and administrative ≈ 1 115 · UN documents ≈ 46 688). Meaning: [misconduct in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/misconduct/).

- qui ont, en matière professionnelle, commis une **faute** grave;
  have been guilty of grave professional **misconduct**;
  ([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 1107390)

- C. **Fautes** en rapport avec l &apos; informatique
  C. Computer-related **misconduct**
  ([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 23516924)

- du degré d'intentionnalité ou de négligence dans la **faute** commise;
  the extent to which the **misconduct** involves intentional action or negligence;
  ([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 3836457)

- Incohérences dans le traitement des **fautes**.
  77. Inconsistencies in responses to findings of **misconduct**.
  ([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 14716833)

- de la nature de la **faute** et des circonstances dans lesquelles elle a été commise;
  the nature of the **misconduct** and the circumstances in which it occurred;
  ([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 4169960)

## must

Used about 23 635 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 136 · literary ≈ 82 · biblical ≈ 43 · parliamentary ≈ 8 710 · legal and administrative ≈ 398 · UN documents ≈ 14 266). Meaning: [must in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/must/).

- Il te **faut** être plus poli.
  You **must** be more polite.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#30359](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/30359) [\#7677608](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7677608))

- Il **faut** la jeter bas.
  It **must** be cast down.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 24454)

- Il **faut** qu’il croisse, et que je diminue.
  He **must** increase, but I must decrease.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOH 3:30)

- Il **faut** y mettre un terme.
  This war **must** be stopped.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 16601)

- Il **faut** donc conclure que la mesure confère un avantage à BankCo.
  It **must** therefore be concluded that the measure confers an advantage on BankCo.
  ([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 1993916)

## need

Used about 20 135 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 386 · literary ≈ 4 · biblical ≈ 1 · parliamentary ≈ 4 181 · UN documents ≈ 15 563). Meaning: [need in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/need/).

- Il **faut** que je pisse.
  I **need** to pee.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Snout and aengelberg · checked, community translation · [\#3379282](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3379282) [\#2362686](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2362686))

- --Il te **faut** aussi une pierre, mais tu en trouveras dehors.
  “You will **need** a stone also, but you can find one outside.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 28113)

- C’est là ce qui fait votre joie, quoique maintenant, puisqu’il le **faut**, vous soyez attristés pour un peu de temps par diverses épreuves,
  In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if **need** be, you have been grieved in various trials,
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · 1PE 1:6)

- Il nous **faut** au moins 2 milliards par an.
  We **need** at least EUR 2 billion per year.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1054563)

- Constatant en outre qu &apos; il **faut** améliorer la gestion des opérations de maintien de la paix,
  Recognizing further the **need** to improve the management of peace-keeping operations,
  ([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 739021)

## fault

Used about 7 798 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 749 · literary ≈ 33 · biblical ≈ 3 · parliamentary ≈ 4 181 · legal and administrative ≈ 239 · UN documents ≈ 2 594). Meaning: [fault in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/fault/).

- C'est de ma **faute** !
  It's my **fault**!
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by christian63 and Eccles17 · checked, community translation · [\#6794597](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6794597) [\#5992243](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5992243))

- D'où vient cette **faute**?
  Whence arises this **fault**?
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 18156)

- Alors les chefs et les satrapes cherchèrent une occasion d’accuser Daniel en ce qui concernait les affaires du royaume. Mais ils ne purent trouver aucune occasion, ni aucune chose à reprendre, parce qu’il était fidèle, et qu’on n’apercevait chez lui ni **faute**, ni rien de mauvais.
  Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or **fault**, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.
  ([World English Bible and Louis Segond 1910](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Louis Segond 1910; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DAN 6:4)

- C'est de notre **faute**.
  That is our **fault**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 866749)

- Il s’agit d’un régime de responsabilité pour **faute** lourde.
  This is a scheme of liability for serious **fault**.
  ([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 2017509)

## mistakes

Used about 7 465 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 863 · parliamentary ≈ 5 226 · legal and administrative ≈ 80 · UN documents ≈ 1 297).

- Je commets trop de **fautes**.
  I make too many **mistakes**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#252977](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/252977) [\#804697](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/804697))

- Des **fautes** ont néanmoins été commises.
  But **mistakes** have been made.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1919699)

- Les erreurs linguistiques, les **fautes** de transcription et les erreurs manifestes commises dans les décisions de l’Office doivent être rectifiées.
  Linguistic errors, errors of transcription and patent **mistakes** in decisions of the Office shall be corrected.
  ([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 1896069)

- Pour éviter de répéter les **fautes** commises par le passé, le Comité doit tenter de s &apos; entendre à l &apos; avance sur les questions de procédure restées en suspens.
  To avoid repeating the **mistakes** of the past, the Committee should seek to achieve early consensus on outstanding procedural issues.
  ([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 21316650)

- Je fais trop de **fautes**.
  I'm making too many **mistakes**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by lbdx and CK · checked, community translation · [\#6873099](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6873099) [\#11553132](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11553132))

## More sentences

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

- Il **faut** que j'y aille, maintenant.
  I have to leave now.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and CK · checked, community translation · [\#31380](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/31380) [\#4594676](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4594676))

- Il **faut** que je me lève de toute façon.
  I have to get up anyways.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by LoveWindPower and CK · checked, community translation · [\#2360495](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/2360495) [\#4591345](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/4591345))

- Il **faut** que nous leur donnions quelque chose.
  We've got to give them something.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Micsmithel and CH · checked, community translation · [\#3915965](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/3915965) [\#6606730](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6606730))

## 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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