1 faire Verb, transitive (a) to make a car, wine, a noise, a mistake, a declaration, a film, a meal, a cake, a gesture, build a house, nest, wall, bake a cake, write, produce a book, speech, essay, make, draw up a list, make out, write a cheque, give a lecture, lesson; to do a deed, work; to play tennis, rugby, a match, a role; (School) to do, take a subject, an exam; to prepare a meal, salad; to have, suffer from stress, run up a temperature, get, come down with an illness; to pay a visit, compliments; to sell, deal in produce, grow, produce crops; ~ le mort to play dead; ~ le sourd/le timide to pretend to be deaf/shy; ~ le malade to feign illness; ~ l'innocent/la bête to play or act the innocent/the fool

2 faire Verb, intransitive (a) to act; ~ vite to act quickly
(b) to seem, feel; (physically) to look; ~ jeune to look young; il a 20 ans mais il fait plus he's 20 but he looks older; ça fait bizarre it feels odd (or) strange; (physically) it looks odd (or) strange; ça fait drôle de te revoir it feels strange seeing you again
(c) (Infml: with names of professions) to be; ~ prof to be a teacher
(d) (especially in the conditional) to make, potentially be, have the makings of a good teacher etc; il ferait un bon prof he'd make (or) be a good teacher, he has the makings of a good teacher

3 faire Verb, transitive (a) ~ faire qn to make sb do; ~ faire qch à qn to make sb do sth, have sb do sth; ~ faire qch to have sth done; ~ entrer/sortir qn to let sb in/out; ~ venir qn to send for sb; ~ écouter une cassette à qn to play sb a cassette; ~ presser un disque/CD to have a record/CD pressed; se ~ couper les cheveux to have one's hair cut

4 faire Verb (a) il fait jour/nuit/clair/sombre/soleil it is daylight/dark/light/dull/sunny; il fait du vent/du soleil/du brouillard it is windy/sunny/foggy; il fait un temps mauvais/merveilleux it is bad/marvellous weather; (Infml) il fait faim/soif it's hungry/thirsty weather

5 se faire Verb, pronominal (a) to be done; to become, get old, ripe; to make oneself beautiful; se ~ mal/peur to hurt/frighten oneself; se ~ violence to force oneself; se ~ les ongles to do one's nails; se ~ une idée to get some or an idea; se ~ des idées to imagine things, get ideas; s'en ~ to worry; se ~ à to get used to; se ~ attraper/laver/tuer to get (oneself) told off/cleaned/killed; (Slang) aller se ~ voir to sod off; (Vulg) aller se ~ foutre, aller se ~ to fuck off (Vulg), piss off (Vulg), bugger off (Vulg)
(b) (Slang) to do an activity, go to a restaurant etc; tu m'appelles mardi, on peut se ~ quelque chose ring me on Tuesday and we can do something (neutral); se ~ un macdo to have a McDonalds (Infml)
(c) (Vulg) to get off with, shag somebody; elle s'est fait le serveur she got off with the waiter

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