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English
Adverb
face to face (not comparable)
- In person; directly; in the physical presence of somebody.
- Synonym: eyeball to eyeball
He sounds intimidating over the phone, but if you meet him face to face you will find he is a friendly enough fellow.
- (by extension) Closely encountering (a thing or situation).
Finally, there I was, face to face with death.
Descendants
Translations
in person
- Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Amharic: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: وَجْهًا لِوَجْه (wajhan li-wajh)
- Belarusian: тва́рам да тва́ру (tváram da tváru), во́ка на во́ка (vóka na vóka)
- Bengali: মুখোমুখি (bn) (mukhōmukhi)
- Bulgarian: лице́ в лице́ (licé v licé)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 當面／当面 (dong1 min6)
- Mandarin: 當面／当面 (zh) (dāngmiàn), 面對面／面对面 (zh) (miànduìmiàn)
- Czech: tváří v tvář
- Danish: ansigt til ansigt
- Dutch: in het echt, oog in oog (somewhat literary)
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: kasvokkain (fi), kasvotusten; henkilökohtaisesti (fi)
- French: vis-à-vis (fr), tête-à-tête (fr), face à face (fr)
- Georgian: პირისპირ (ṗirisṗir)
- German: von Angesicht zu Angesicht, in echt
- Greek: πρόσωπο με πρόσωπο (prósopo me prósopo), διά ζώσης (el) (diá zósis)
- Ancient Greek: ἐνώπιος ἐνωπίῳ (enṓpios enōpíōi), ἀντικρύ (antikrú)
- Gujarati: રૂબરૂ (rūbrū), મોઢામોઢ (moḍhāmoḍh)
- Hebrew: פנים אל פנים (he) (paním el paním)
- Hindi: आमने-सामने (āmne-sāmne), सम्मुख (hi) (sammukh), रूबरू (hi) (rūbrū)
- Hungarian: személyesen (hu)
- Ido: nazo kontre nazo
- Indonesian: tatap muka (id), wawanmuka (id), semuka (id)
- Interlingua: facie a facie
- Irish: aghaidh ar aghaidh
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ڕوو بە ڕوو (rû be rû)
- Macedonian: ли́це в ли́це (líce v líce), о́чи в о́чи (óči v óči)
- Malay: bersemuka
- Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: rae ki te rae, kanohi ki te kanohi
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ansikt til ansikt, under fire øyne (no)
- Persian: رو به رو (ru be ru)
- Polish: twarzą w twarz (pl), w cztery oczy (pl)
- Portuguese: face a face, cara a cara (pt), pessoalmente (pt)
- Romanian: față în față, între patru ochi
- Russian: лицо́м к лицу́ (ru) (licóm k licú), с гла́зу на́ глаз (ru) (s glázu ná glaz), тет-а-те́т (ru) (tɛt-a-tɛ́t)
- Scottish Gaelic: aghaidh ri aghaidh
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: очи у очи
- Roman: oči u oči
- Slovak: tvárou v tvár, zoči-voči
- Slovene: iz oči v oči
- Spanish: frente a frente (es), cara a cara (es)
- Swedish: ansikte mot ansikte, öga mot öga (sv)
- Tagalog: harapan
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Telugu: ముఖాముఖి (te) (mukhāmukhi)
- Turkish: yüz yüze (tr)
- Ukrainian: обли́ччям до обли́ччя (oblýččjam do oblýččja), віч-на́-віч (vič-ná-vič)
- Urdu: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: trực diện, trực tiếp (vi)
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See also
Spanish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English face to face.
Pronunciation
Adverb
face to face
- face to face
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.