confronté
Confronté is a French past participle and adjective derived from the verb confronter. It generally means “faced with” or “confronted,” and is used to describe a person or thing that has to deal with a situation, fact, or obstacle. In everyday French it often occurs in compound tenses with être, and can also function as an adjective that agrees in gender and number.
As a verb form, confronted describes states or conditions. Example: l’équipe est confrontée à des difficultés.
Confronté is also used in noun-like or attributive senses to indicate someone who has been shown or
Confronter is the related verb meaning “to face someone with” or “to compare or oppose.” It can
Etymology traces confronté to the Latin confrontare, from con- “together” and frontis/fons “face.” Related terms include