Usage examples of "faire connaître" in French with translation to English

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Jim semble connaître l'art de faire des filles des amies. Jim seems to know the art of making friends with girls.
Les ingénieurs ne cherchent pas tant à connaître la nature qu'à en faire usage. The engineer seeks not so much to know nature as to make use of it.
Il semble nous connaître. He seems to know us.
Faire ce genre de chose vous fait paraître stupide. Doing that sort of thing makes you look stupid.
Se connaître soi-même n'est pas simple. To know oneself is not easy.
Tom ne pourrait pas faire une telle chose. Tom couldn't do something like that.
Meg est curieuse de connaître tout sur le Japon. Meg is curious to know everything about Japan.
Êtes-vous sûr qu'elle peut faire ça ? Are you sure she can do this?
Lors de mon adolescence, je détestais la vie et j'étais continuellement au bord du suicide, mais j'en étais écarté par le désir de connaître plus de mathématiques. In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.
N'as-tu rien à faire de mieux de ton temps ? Don't you have anything better to do with your time?
Chokichi sentait vivement que les gens, à mesure qu'ils vieillissent, oublient entièrement les soucis que seuls les jeunes peuvent connaître et dont ils ont eux-mêmes fait l'expérience dans leur jeunesse ; et qu'ils prennent nonchalamment cette attitude facile où ils jugent durement les circonstances des jeunes de la nouvelle génération. Il sentait qu'il y avait réellement une distance irréconciliable entre les vieux et les jeunes. Chokichi keenly felt that people, as they get older, forget entirely about the worries that only young people know about and that they themselves experienced in their youth; and that they nonchalantly take this convenient disposition where they judge harshly the circumstances of the young persons born of the next generation. He felt that there was truly an irreconcilable gap between the old and the young.
Que penses-tu qu'elle soit maintenant en train de faire ? What do you think she is doing now?
Il prétendait bien te connaître. He claimed he knew you well.
Vous êtes un très bon secrétaire. Si vous ne vous étiez pas occupé de tout, je n'aurais rien pu faire. Vous êtes formidable. You are a really good secretary. If you didn't take care of everything, I couldn't do anything. You are just great.
C'est un grand honneur de pouvoir le connaître. It's a great honor to be able to meet you.
Tu dois à ceux qui dépendent de toi de le faire. You owe it to those who are dependent upon you to do this.
Je sais que vous devez être enseveli sous une montagne de courrier, mais je me demandais si je pouvais connaître votre avis sur le courrier que je vous ai envoyé la semaine dernière? I know you must be buried in your mountain of mails, but I wonder if I can hear from you regarding the mail I sent you last week?
J'aime faire des tours de magie aux enfants, mais parfois ça tombe à plat. I like to perform magic tricks for kids, but they sometimes fall flat.
Il avait l'air de tout connaître du sujet. He looked as if he knew all about it.
Nous ferions mieux d'en faire part aux autres. We better tell the others.
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