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faire

/fɛʁ/

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verb/fɛʁ/

to do; to make; to say (of a person), to go (of an animal or device); to make (cause someone or something to do something); to act like (something)

faire la vaisselleto do the washing-up.

Synonyms: s'adapter à, s'habituer à

From Middle French faire, from Old French faire, from Latin facere. The past historic and imperfect subjunctive stem fi- (fis, fis, fit...) originated in the Latin form fēcī, with metaphony (*/ˈfed͡zi/ > */ˈfit͡s/).