Questions tagged [traduction]
Questions concernant l'équivalent français d'une expression ou d'un mot d'une autre langue.
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Why does Canada Post translate “to anyone” as “jusqu'à vous”, not “à vous”?
Kindly see the picture below. Why doesn't Canada Post simply translate "to anyone" as "à vous"? Why use "jusque"?
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Comment traduire « knowing is half the battle » ?
Le contexte c'est le dessin animé des années 1980 contenant des « messages d'intérêt public » sur la sécurité etc. destinés aux enfants, par exemple sur les dangers des rivières et lacs à moitié gelés ...
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Comment traduit-on « moving the goalposts » (erreur de logique lors d'un échange) ? / How do you translate « moving the goalposts » (debate fallacy)?
Comment traduit-on l'expression idiomatique to move the goalposts (« To alter the terms of an agreement or an agreed target, or the rules of a negotiation while it is ongoing, especially in an unfair ...
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“Terms and Conditions” in French
In German there are "AGB" (Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen) which is in English usually "Terms and Conditions". What is it in French? I found in the Internet translations as "...
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What's the translation of a “meme stock" in French?
A meme stock is a:
A meme stock is a stock that has seen an increase in volume not because of the company’s performance, but rather because of hype on social media and online forums like Reddit. For ...
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Quel est le sens de cette phrase en anglais? [closed]
Salut!
Je suis en train de lire un livre (Alice au Canada) et il y a une phrase qui dit:
Il faut nous promettre de ne pas nous réserver autant d'émotions
Qu'est-ce que ça veut dire?
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Traduction pour l'anglais “mapping” ?
Le mot anglais mapping est fréquemment utilisé en français dans le cadre du développement informatique.
Durant ma scolarité, en cours d'informatique (microprocesseur), j'avais déjà vu traduit memory ...
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How to translate “fondre sur… comme une nuée de moineaux piaillants” [closed]
I am translating a few chapters of a French book and wondered whether "come down like a tonne of bricks" would be a good fit for this phrase in French?
The whole sentence is as follows "...
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What is triggering the use of the word 'en' in this sentence?
Il ne s'en intéressa pas moins à ce qu'il faisait au point de gagner
Fuller context. Here is the entire text:
Pourtant la veille au soir, alors qu'il jouait à 'Concentration' avec
ses filles, il ...
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Conveying “I mean come on let's get real”
To convey
I mean, come on, let's get real.
deepl gives
Je veux dire, allez, soyons réalistes.
but to my non native ears, soyons réalistes sounds more formal than let's get real. Am I right?
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What's the translation of “hoon" in French?
A hoon is a:
[in Australia and New Zealand] person who deliberately drives a vehicle in a reckless or dangerous manner, generally in order to provoke a reaction from onlookers.
What's the ...
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What's the translation of “crisscross" in French?
Example of the use of crisscross in English:
From Strongdar on Reddit:
In that context, crisscross would tell you that it crosses the street repeatedly, in a back and forth sort of manner. Cross ...
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Conveying the turn “have yet to do something”
The turn "have yet to do something" can be used for saying that something has not happened or been done up to the present time, especially when you think it should have happened or been done....
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Conveying “Jumping the shark”
Reading a review for the new Fast and Furious film I came across the (American) idiom "jumping the shark".
Jumping the shark is an idiom used to describe the moment of a
misguided attempt ...
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Conveying “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. (R. F. Kennedy)
What is a natural way to convey the meaning (what makes greatness so great is the risk, hardship, and even possible ...
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Comment dit-on “Nous avons déjà échangé sur maths stack exchange” en anglais?
Bonjour. Je répondais à une question en anglais sur Maths stack exchange. La réponse que je devais donner dépendait du niveau, des connaissances ("knowledges" en anglais? Je ne maîtrise pas ...
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How to differentiate between multiple meanings of “devoir”?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, as per my understanding:
"Devoir" has multiple meanings, usually depending on the context; it can either be (literal or figurative) debt, obligation, or ...
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Traduirait-on « meltdown » en « fusion » tout court ou autrement ?
Can you operate the historic Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (RBMK-1000)
without causing a Meltdown?
...faire fonctionner... sans causer de/un(e)/le-la... ?
En anglais le mot meltdown signifie nuclear ...
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What's the translation of “road kilometres" in French?
I read on wikipedia:
Chaiyaphum is 337 road kilometres northeast of Bangkok.
What's the translation of “road kilometres" in French?
Linguee and translate.google.com suggest "kilomètres ...
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Exact meaning of “poignée de main” in a 19th century letter
In a handwritten letter (dated 1864), the writer (in U. S.) tells his wife (in Europe) to go see Monsieur X and, while there, to have him please "recevoir ... ma cordiale poignée de main." ...
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Comment traduire « (the whole) fracas » ?
— They canceled the All Valley [tournament].[...] City council
just pulled the permit. Something about not wanting to foster a
culture of violence after the whole fracas at the school.
It's an over-...
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Agenda ou calendrier?
I'm looking at my calendar in a software package:
Should this be called an agenda or a calendrier?
From e.g. Agendas et calendriers - Vivre le temps qui passe I get the impression I should use ...
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Meaning of 'Pas tant de manières'
In the poem "L'Accent Grave", I came across this line:
Suffit. Pas tant de manières. Et conjuguez-moi le verbe être, comme tout le monde...
When I looked up the meaning of 'pas tant de ...
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Translation of ''bobinus''
The sentence is: "C'était des assiettées monstres et des hourras à plus finir... à faire crouler tout le bobinus..."
What is the meaning of bobinus? Is it a variation of bobinard?
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Traduction de « a rundown on the sub and a précis of the stuff in your hand » : choix de mots et formulation ?
Just give him a rundown on the sub and a précis of the stuff in
your hand.
Fais un topo général.
The Hunt for the Red October (1990), McTiernan, d'après l'oeuvre de Tom Clancy ; extrait de sous-...
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What's the translation of “staff research scientist" in French?
I am trying to translate from English to French different researcher positions:
Research scientist = Chercheur.
Senior research scientist = Chercheur senior.
Principal scientist = Chercheur principal....
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Qu’est-ce que « Il n’est pas clair que » veut dire en anglais?
Ce genre de phrase me pose souvent des problèmes - en anglais "It is not evident that he likes cake" indique le plupart de temps que ce n'est pas clair (i.e. ce n'est pas montré d'une façon ...
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What's the translation of “tracker“ as in ”Covid-19 vaccination tracker" in French?
I am trying to translate from English to French:
Covid-19 vaccination tracker
What's the translation of “tracker"?
My research:
The word "traqueur" didn't seem to mean tracker ...
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What's the difference between “où en est ” and “où est”?
I recently came across a podcast episode titled "Où en est la 5G en France?".
How is that title's meaning different from that of "Où est la 5G en France?" ?
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What's the translation of “hero image" in French?
A hero image is (mirror):
a website design term used to describe an oversized banner image at the top of a website.
What's the translation of “hero image" in French?
I unsuccessfully tried ...
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Comment traduire “in the first place” ?
Selon Merriam Webster, l'expression anglaise in the first place possède deux sens :
—used at the end of a sentence to indicate what was true or what should have been done at the beginning of a ...
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Comment traduire « the players that hang to the port of the bitt » ?
Dans le dictionnaire Cotgrave on trouve la définition de babillons :
The players that hang to the port of a bitt.
Il s'agit d'un objet relié à la direction d'un cheval. Comment traduit-on la phrase/...
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How do I understand “Nous faisons la rencontre”?
I can't understand the following sentence:
Nous faisons ainsi la rencontre du chaleureux et souvent endormi Père
Noël.
deepL gives:
This is how we meet the warm and often sleepy Santa Claus.
I don'...
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Comment traduire « First World problem » ?
Comment traduit-on un/le « First World problem » (aussi Wikipedia) en emploi informel pour les frustrations/difficultés éprouvées par des gens en l'absence de problèmes plus importants dans les pays ...
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What is the meaning of “La niaise! En botte!”?
I'm reading Guignol's Band by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and in the prologue there's this passage:
"Quelle objection! Quelle tourterie! Ah! attention! La niaise! En botte! Volent habillons! Émouvez ...
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What does the verb 'lisser' mean in this sentence?
I have come across the following sentence and cannot quite make out a satisfying translation for how 'lisser' is used here. The dictionary says 'to smooth, to even out' but I do not think that this ...
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«Office hours» en français
Dans un contexte académique, les «office hours» sont une période où un professeur est disponible (habituellement dans son bureau) pour répondre aux questions des étudiants.
Quelle est la meilleure ...
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L'hiver est venu imprévu
En russe on utilise l'expression "l'hiver est venu imprévu" ("зима пришла нежданно") en parlant d'un événement complètement prévisible auquel personne ne s'est préparé (l'hiver et ...
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Mémoire de fin d'études en traduction
Bonjour a tous ! Alors j'ai un mémoire de fin d'études à préparer et je ne sais pas trop quoi faire comme sujet :/ j'aimerai avoir des suggestions pour les connaisseurs svp :(
J'ai eu l'idée de faire ...
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“Stamp my document” in French?
When I wanna to say stamp my document in French. Is it estamper mon document? The French translation of the verb stamp is estamper?
What about the French translation of the the noun stamp (the thing ...
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Comment traduire «…an elusive earthiness » (vin) ?
Graceful yet seductive, this Pinot Noir is laced with polished notes
of cherries and red berries swimming amongst supple tannins and an
elusive earthiness.
L'adjectif elusive, c'est ce qui est ...
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How do you say in French “This system created by the government exploits the poorest communities.”?
The translations of “This system created by the government exploits the poorest communities.” that I have are
Ce system créé par le gouvernement exploite les communautés les moins riches.
Ce system ...
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What's the translation of “marginable security" in French?
Marginable securities refer to:
stocks, bonds, futures or other securities capable of being traded on margin. Securities traded on margin, paid for by a loan, are facilitated through a brokerage or ...
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Conveying “Pardon my French”
"Pardon my French" or "Excuse my French" is a common English language phrase ostensibly disguising profanity as words from the French language. The phrase is uttered in an attempt ...
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Conveying 'notebook' (programming)
Mathematica notebook, Jupyter notebook...Can one use colloquially the word 'notebook' in French (programming context)? Should it better to use 'carnet'?
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What's the translation of “upcoding" in French?
Upcoding is the:
practice in which provider services are billed for higher CPT procedure codes than were actually performed, resulting in a higher payment by Medicare or 3rd-party payor.
What's the ...
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Conveying 'cut-off time'
I am writing a script containing the following instructions:
#Initialisation des paramètres
g = 9.8066 # Accélération de la pesanteur [m / sˆ2]
hauteur_initiale = 2.0 # y0 = hauteur de laquelle le ...
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“Le contrôle […] dirigé […] contre les velléités”?
I'm reading (and trying to fully understand) this article here: https://www.lesechos.fr/finance-marches/ma/lexecutif-a-bloque-pour-la-premiere-fois-un-investissement-etranger-1277655
...le contrôle ...
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Comment traduire le « no-nonsense [Nom] » ?
Single assignment for the no-nonsense [prénom nom (un arbitre)].
Le contexte c'est le commentaire sportif, on parle d'un arbitre d'un des match d'un tournoi. L'adjectif « no-nonsense » c'est l'aspect ...
