Question 1

What is the definition of the French word "faire"?

Accepted Answer

To create, produce, manufacture, when speaking of any material work.
To prepare a meal, to cook it.
To elaborate, when speaking of works of intelligence and imagination.
To operate, effect, execute, accomplish, realize, whether of a physical or moral order.
To say.
To grant.
To provoke.
To practice.
To steal; to pick pockets.
To have in one's professional field.
To move in a displacement from one place to another.
To signal, indicate a state of things.
To dispose, arrange, put in a suitable condition.
To apply makeup, to make up.
To amass, assemble, put together, when speaking of money or other things that need to be provided.
To employ one's strength, talents, mental activity on something; to occupy oneself with it, to spend one's time on it.
To observe, put into practice, often by obligation or precept.
To execute or practice certain things that one is obliged to complete within a certain time.
To form, fashion, perfect someone.
To form, compose, constitute a whole, a single thing, when speaking of two or more things that unite, are added, etc.
To be the essence of a thing.
To be the cause of such and such a result or to be the occasion for it.
To give a false appearance.
To give the air, create a particular impression.
To be here (or there): To be in that place.
Constructed with the preposition 'de', it takes the meaning of changing, transforming into.
Always with the preposition 'de', it can mean to employ someone or something, to dispose of it, to take advantage of it in one way or another.
It is often used as a substitute verb to avoid repeating the previous verb, preceded by conjunctions like 'as', 'as well as', 'less than', 'more than', etc., and accompanied by the personal pronoun 'le' (l), which represents the action described just before.
It is also a substitute in the expression 'en faire autant'.
But this use should not be confused with another construction (without a subordinating conjunction) in which 'faire', retaining the sense of executing, operating, effecting, etc., also has the pronoun 'le' as its complement, which represents the previous verb.
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To be affected, to be sick of, to show the symptoms of.
To carry out what is ordered.
To act.
To be suitable, to produce a pleasant effect (today, the verb 'aller' is used more).
To have a bowel movement, to defecate.
To become, to embrace a profession, an idea, a religion.
Indicates something that one agrees to or imposes on oneself.
To get used to, to accustom oneself to something.
To form.
To create.
To be possible, to occur.
To be commonly practiced.
To have sexual intercourse with.
To do it to oneself: To eventually show violence.
Indicates a weather condition.
Used to indicate the nature, state, disposition or qualities of certain things.
To be the cause.
To exist.
To happen.
To be suitable. -
To begin to be.
In the simple or pronominal form ('se faire'), it can be a modal auxiliary and be constructed with an infinitive to mean: to be the (near or distant) cause of something or an action. The subject of the infinitive verb can be expressed in the sentence or be absent from the sentence. Similarly, the object of the infinitive verb is not always expressed.
Expressions all meaning the same thing: leave me alone.

Question 2

Where does the French word "faire" come from?

Accepted Answer

from Vulgar Latin fagĕre (by analogy with agĕre or, more likely, remodeling on verbs in -gĕre, after past participles in -ctus, common to both forms), in Classical Latin facĕre, of the same meaning.

Question 3

questions.anagrams[1]

Accepted Answer

ferai
fiera
fraie

Question 4

How to translate "faire" into spanish?

Accepted Answer

practicar

Question 5

How do you say "faire" in english?

Accepted Answer

play

Question 6

How to translate "faire" into italian?

Accepted Answer

fare

Question 7

How do you translate "faire" into german?

Accepted Answer

passieren

Question 8

How do you say "faire" in portuguese?

Accepted Answer

fazer

Question 9

How do you say "faire" in russian?

Accepted Answer

делать

faire

Conjugation of the verb "faire"

Indicative

Present

Present perfect

Imperfect

Pluperfect

Simple past

Past anterior

Future

Future perfect

Subjunctive

Present

Past

Imperfect

Pluperfect

Conditional

Present

Past 1st form

Past 2nd form

Imperative

Present

Past

Participle

Present

Past