face to face

See also: face-to-face

English

Alternative forms

face-to-face

Adverb

face to face (not comparable)

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) Closely encountering (a thing or situation).
Finally, there I was, face to face with death.

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)
Ancient Greek: ἐνώπιος ἐνωπίῳ (enṓpios enōpíōi), ἀντικρύ (antikrú)
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
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)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English face to face.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

face to face (invariable)

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.

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