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faux

false, fake

adjective foh Less Common

Also means

wrong

Usage Note

Faux is the masculine form; the feminine is fausse (fohs). It covers both deliberate fakery ('un faux billet' - a counterfeit bill) and simple factual error ('c'est faux' - that's wrong). The phrase faux ami ('false friend') describes words that look similar between languages but mean different things.

Examples

"Ce tableau est un faux célèbre."

Natural Translation

This painting is a famous fake.

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