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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 ) Finally, there I was, face to face with death.
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 )
Armenian: դեմառդեմ (hy) ( demaṙdem ) , երես առ երես (hy) ( eres aṙ eres )
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)
Portuguese: face a face cara a cara (pt) , pessoalmente (pt)
Punjabi: ਰੂਬਰੂ ( rūbrū )
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) , vis a vis (es)
Swedish: ansikte mot ansikte öga mot öga (sv)
Tagalog: harapan
Tamil: நேருக்கு நேர் ( nērukku nēr ) , முகத்திற்கு முகம் ( mukattiṟku mukam )
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)
Welsh: wyneb ar wyneb
Unadapted borrowing from English face to face
IPA (key ) : /ˌfeis tu ˈfeis/ [ˌfei̯s t̪u ˈfei̯s] face to face
face to face 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.
