Also means
to make
Usage Note
Faire splits into both English 'do' and 'make' and then sprawls far beyond both — it covers cooking in faire la cuisine, shopping in faire les courses, and paying attention in faire attention. It even describes the weather, as in il fait beau for 'it's nice out'.
Examples
"Qu'est-ce que tu fais ?"
Natural Translation
What are you doing?
Literal Translation
What-is-it that you do
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