faire
EnglishEdit
AdjectiveEdit
faire
- Obsolete spelling of fair
NounEdit
faire (plural faires)
- Obsolete spelling of fair
Usage notesEdit
Sometimes used deliberately to convey an archaic feeling, e.g. "Renaissance faire"
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French faire, from Old French faire, feire, fere, from Latin facere, present active infinitive of faciō, from Proto-Italic *fakiō, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
faire
- (transitive) to do
- Qu'est-ce que tu fais ? ― What are you doing?
- Faire la vaisselle. ― To do the washing-up.
- (transitive) to make
- Faire une erreur. ― To make a mistake.
- (transitive) to say (of a person), to go (of an animal)
- "Je t'aime," fit-il. ― "I love you," he said.
- Le chat fait "miaou". ― The cat goes "meow".
- (transitive) to make (cause someone or something to do something)
- Tu me fais rire. ― You make me laugh.
- La chanson me fait pleurer. ― The song makes me cry.
- (impersonal) To be (of the weather or various situations).
- Il fait chaud/froid/noir/beau dehors.
- It is hot/cold/dark/nice outside.
- Ça fait dix ans que nous nous connaissons.
- We have known each other for ten years.
- (reflexive) to do, to make (oneself)
- Elle se fait les ongles. ― She is doing her nails.
- (reflexive, followed by an infinitive) to be, to get (used for a passive action)
- Se faire piquer. ― To be stung.
- Je me suis fait avoir. ― I got screwed.
- (reflexive) to ripen (of fruit), to mature
- (reflexive, ~ à) to become used to, to get used to
- (slang, reflexive, transitive) to do (to have sex with)
- (reflexive) to become, to get
Usage notesEdit
- When it is followed by an infinitive, the past participle fait is invariable.
- Elle s'est fait comprendre, not *elle s'est faite comprendre.
ConjugationEdit
infinitive | simple | faire | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | faisant /fə.zɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | fait /fɛ/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | fais /fɛ/ |
fais /fɛ/ |
fait /fɛ/ |
faisons /fə.zɔ̃/ |
faites /fɛt/ |
font /fɔ̃/ |
imperfect | faisais /fə.zɛ/ |
faisais /fə.zɛ/ |
faisait /fə.zɛ/ |
faisions /fə.zjɔ̃/ |
faisiez /fə.zje/ |
faisaient /fə.zɛ/ | |
past historic2 | fis /fi/ |
fis /fi/ |
fit /fi/ |
fîmes /fim/ |
fîtes /fit/ |
firent /fiʁ/ | |
future | ferai /fə.ʁe/ |
feras /fə.ʁa/ |
fera /fə.ʁa/ |
ferons /fə.ʁɔ̃/ |
ferez /fə.ʁe/ |
feront /fə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | ferais /fə.ʁɛ/ |
ferais /fə.ʁɛ/ |
ferait /fə.ʁɛ/ |
ferions /fə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
feriez /fə.ʁje/ |
feraient /fə.ʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | fasse /fas/ |
fasses /fas/ |
fasse /fas/ |
fassions /fa.sjɔ̃/ |
fassiez /fa.sje/ |
fassent /fas/ |
imperfect2 | fisse /fis/ |
fisses /fis/ |
fît /fi/ |
fissions /fi.sjɔ̃/ |
fissiez /fi.sje/ |
fissent /fis/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | fais /fɛ/ |
— | faisons /fə.zɔ̃/ |
faites /fɛt/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is only usable with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
infinitive | simple | se faire | |||||
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compound | s'être + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | se faisant /sə fə.zɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant or étant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | fait /fɛ/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | me fais /mə fɛ/ |
te fais /tə fɛ/ |
se fait /sə fɛ/ |
nous faisons /nu fə.zɔ̃/ |
vous faites /vu fɛt/ |
se font /sə fɔ̃/ |
imperfect | me faisais /mə fə.zɛ/ |
te faisais /tə fə.zɛ/ |
se faisait /sə fə.zɛ/ |
nous faisions /nu fə.zjɔ̃/ |
vous faisiez /vu fə.zje/ |
se faisaient /sə fə.zɛ/ | |
past historic2 | me fis /mə fi/ |
te fis /tə fi/ |
se fit /sə fi/ |
nous fîmes /nu fim/ |
vous fîtes /vu fit/ |
se firent /sə fiʁ/ | |
future | me ferai /mə fə.ʁe/ |
te feras /tə fə.ʁa/ |
se fera /sə fə.ʁa/ |
nous ferons /nu fə.ʁɔ̃/ |
vous ferez /vu fə.ʁe/ |
se feront /sə fə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | me ferais /mə fə.ʁɛ/ |
te ferais /tə fə.ʁɛ/ |
se ferait /sə fə.ʁɛ/ |
nous ferions /nu fə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
vous feriez /vu fə.ʁje/ |
se feraient /sə fə.ʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of s'être + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of s'être + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of s'être + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of s'être + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of s'être + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | me fasse /mə fas/ |
te fasses /tə fas/ |
se fasse /sə fas/ |
nous fassions /nu fa.sjɔ̃/ |
vous fassiez /vu fa.sje/ |
se fassent /sə fas/ |
imperfect2 | me fisse /mə fis/ |
te fisses /tə fis/ |
se fît /sə fi/ |
nous fissions /nu fi.sjɔ̃/ |
vous fissiez /vu fi.sje/ |
se fissent /sə fis/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of s'être + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of s'être + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | fais-toi /fɛ.twa/ |
— | faisons-nous /fə.zɔ̃.nu/ |
faites-vous /fɛt.vu/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of s'être + past participle | — | simple imperative of s'être + past participle | simple imperative of s'être + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is only usable with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived termsEdit
- chemin faisant
- faire cas
- faire chaud
- faire chaudière ensemble
- faire chou blanc
- faire de la peine
- faire des gorges chaudes
- faire école
- faire en sorte
- faire fausse route
- faire fi
- faire fort
- faire froid
- faire genre
- faire grand cas
- faire honneur
- faire la paix
- faire le canard
- faire l'école buissonnière
- faire le con
- faire le difficile
- faire le difficile
- faire le gros dos
- faire le malin
- faire les yeux doux
- faire l'idiot
- faire peu de cas
- faire route
- faire ses besoins
- faire son chemin
- faire un tour
- ne faire ni chaud ni froid
- plus facile à dire qu'à faire
- se faire tout petit
- se faire une raison
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “faire” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
AnagramsEdit
GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
AdjectiveEdit
faire
- inflection of fair:
IrishEdit
NounEdit
faire f (genitive singular faire)
- verbal noun of fair
DeclensionEdit
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived termsEdit
- túr faire (“watch-tower”)
VerbEdit
faire
MutationEdit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
faire | fhaire | bhfaire |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further readingEdit
- "faire" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “faire” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “faire” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Middle EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
AdjectiveEdit
faire
DescendantsEdit
- English: fair
Middle FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French faire, feire, fere, from Latin facere, present active infinitive of faciō.
VerbEdit
faire
- to do
- to make
- to choose; to elect
- 15th century, Rustichello da Pisa (original author), Mazarine Master (scribe), The Travels of Marco Polo, page 7, lines 8-9:
- entre tant que on fera un pappe nous pourrons bien aler en Venisse
- while they are electing a Pope, we could well go to Venice
ConjugationEdit
- Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
infinitive | simple | faire | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle1 or gerund2 | simple | faisant | |||||
compound | present participle or gerund of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past participle | fait, faict | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | ie (i’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ilz, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | fais | fais | fait, fet | faisons | faites | font |
imperfect | faisois, faisoys | faisois, faisoys | faisoit, faisoyt | faisions | faisiez | faisoient, faisoyent | |
past historic | fis | fis | fit | fismes | fistes | firent | |
future | feroie, feroye | feras | fera | ferons | ferez | feront | |
conditional | ferois, feroys | ferois, feroys | feroit, feroyt | ferions | feriez | feroient, feroyent | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que ie (i’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ilz, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | face | faces | face | facions | faciez | facent |
imperfect | fisse | fisses | fist | fissions | fissiez | fissent | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | fais | — | faisons | faites | — | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The present participle was variable in gender and number until the 17th century (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], Une esthétique nouvelle: Honoré d'Urfé, correcteur de l'Astrée, p. 179). The French Academy would eventually declare it not to be declined in 1679. | |||||||
2 The gerund was held to be invariable by grammarians of the early 17th century, and was usable with preposition en, as in Modern French, although the preposition was not mandatory (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], op. cit., p. 180). |
DescendantsEdit
- French: faire
NormanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- faithe (Jersey)
EtymologyEdit
From Old French faire, from Latin faciō, facere, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”).
VerbEdit
faire
Derived termsEdit
- faire câod (“to be warm (out)”)
NovialEdit
NounEdit
faire (plural faires)
OccitanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin facere, present active infinitive of faciō.
VerbEdit
faire
ConjugationEdit
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | faire | aver fasent | |||||
gerund | aver | use gerund of aver + past participle | |||||
past participle | fasent | — | |||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | ieu | tu | el | nosautres | vosautres | eles | |
present | fach | fau | fas | fa | fasèm | fasètz | |
imperfect | fan | fasiái | fasiás | fasiá | fasiam | fasiatz | |
preterite | fasián | farai | faràs | farà | farem | faretz | |
future | faràn | faguèri | faguères | faguèt | faguèrem | faguèretz | |
conditional | faguèron | fariái | fariás | fariá | fariam | fariatz | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | use the present tense of aver + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | use the preterite tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | use the future tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | use the conditional tense of aver + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que ieu | que tu | que el | que nosautres | que vosautres | que eles | |
present | farián | faga | fagas | faga | fagam | fagatz | |
imperfect | fagan | faguèsse | faguèsses | faguèsse | faguèssem | faguèssetz | |
compound tenses |
past | use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle | ||||||
imperative | — | tu | — | nosautres | vosautres | — | |
faguèsson | fai | fagam | |||||
Old FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin facere, present active infinitive of faciō.
VerbEdit
faire
- to do
ConjugationEdit
This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | faire | avoir fait | |||||
gerund | en faisant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
present participle | faisant | ||||||
past participle | fait | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses |
present | faz, fai | fais | fait | faimes, faisons | faites | font |
imperfect | faisoie, faiseie | faisoies, faiseies | faisoit, faiseit | faisiiens, faisiens | faisiiez, faisiez | faisoient, faiseient | |
preterite | fis | feṣis | fist | feṣimes | feṣistes | firent | |
future | ferai | feras | fera | ferons | feroiz, fereiz, ferez | feront | |
conditional | feroie, fereie | feroies, fereies | feroit, fereit | feriiens, feriens | feriiez, feriez | feroient, fereient | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
past anterior | Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
simple tenses |
present | face | faces | face | faciens, façons | faciez | facent |
imperfect | feṣisse | feṣisses | feṣist | feṣissons, feṣissiens | feṣissoiz, feṣissez, feṣissiez | feṣissent | |
compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | fa | — | faimes, faisons | faites | — |
DescendantsEdit
- French: faire
Scottish GaelicEdit
NounEdit
faire f (genitive singular faire, plural fairean)
- watch (the act or period of watching or guarding)