fate

sort, destin

Ce qui arrive finalement à quelqu’un ou à quelque chose, surtout un événement malheureux.

En anglais simple : What happens to someone or something in the end, especially something bad.

• Nobody knows his fate.
• Both factories suffered the same fate.
• The court will decide the prisoners’ fate tomorrow.

Comment l'utiliser : the fate of someone/something (The fate of the missing ship remains unknown.)

Synonymes : outcome, destiny

Expressions courantes : someone’s fate, suffer this fate, escape that fate

destin, destinée

Force censée diriger les événements de la vie des gens.

En anglais simple : A power believed to control what happens in people’s lives.

• Do you believe in fate?
• She felt that fate had brought them together.
• We left the decision to fate and tossed a coin.

Synonymes : destiny

Expressions courantes : believe in fate, trust fate, leave to fate

destin

Puissance qui, selon certaines croyances, décide de ce qui arrive dans la vie.

En anglais simple : A power believed to control what happens in life.

• Perhaps fate brought us together.
• She believed fate controlled her life.
• Would fate give him another chance?

Synonymes : destiny

Expressions courantes : cruel fate, trust fate, fate intervenes

prédestiner

Rendre un événement futur inévitable par la force du destin.

En anglais simple : To make a future event certain to happen through the power of destiny.

• They were fated to fall in love.
• The king seemed fated to lose his crown.
• Was she fated to spend her life alone?

Comment l'utiliser : be fated to do something (They were fated to meet again.)

Synonymes : destine, predestine

Expressions courantes : fate someone to, be fated to