truth

vérité

Ce qui correspond aux faits ou à ce qui s’est réellement passé.

En anglais simple : What agrees with the facts or with what really happened.

• Please tell me the truth.
• He hid the truth about his past.
• There was little truth in the rumours.

Comment l'utiliser : the truth about someone/something (We finally learned the truth about the accident.); there is truth in something (There is some truth in what she says.)

Synonymes : reality, fact

Contraires : falsehood, lie

Expressions courantes : tell the truth, the whole truth, discover the truth, truth about something

fidélité, loyauté

Fait de rester fidèle à une personne, à une croyance ou à ses propres sentiments.

En anglais simple : Being faithful to a person, belief, or your own feelings.

• Her truth to her beliefs never weakened.
• The story praises his truth to an old friend.
• For the poet, truth to oneself mattered more than praise.

Comment l'utiliser : truth to someone/something (The poem celebrates her truth to her own ideals.)

Synonymes : faithfulness, fidelity, loyalty

Contraires : unfaithfulness, disloyalty

Expressions courantes : truth to oneself, truth to someone, truth to principles