face to face

See also: face-to-face

English

Alternative forms

• face-to-face

Adverb

face to face (not comparable)

1. 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.

2. (by extension) Closely encountering (a thing or situation).

   Finally, there I was, face to face with death.

Descendants

• → Japanese: フェイス・トゥ・フェイス (feisu tu feisu)
• → Spanish: face to face

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)

See also

• head to head
• tête-à-tête

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English face to face.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌfeis tu ˈfeis/ [ˌfei̯s t̪u ˈfei̯s]

Adverb

face to face

1. 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.