Questions tagged [traduction]
Questions concernant l'équivalent français d'une expression ou d'un mot d'une autre langue.
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Gender of nouns preceding prepositional phrases
I apologize in advance if I'm comparing apples and oranges here in terms of English and French grammatical structures, but it's the best I can do at the moment given my knowledge.
I'm trying to find ...
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How do you say “so much so” in French? [closed]
I want to say the following sentence in French:
Person1: I want you to make it to the farm so much so that I’ll even
apologise to Jake.
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Comment rendre « meaningful expressions » ?
State which of the following expressions are meaningful in the indicial notation.
Indiquer quelles formules parmi les suivantes ont du sens dans la notation indicielle.
Je me demande s'il existe ...
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Comment dire en français « You go to your church and I'll go to mine. » ?
Comment pourrait-on rendre cet adage en français ?
You go to your church and I'll go to mine.
Cette formule, apparemment d'origine américaine, est parfois utilisée par des américains pour exprimer ...
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What is “sales” called in French? [closed]
We are trying to make a new e-mail account that people can reach us at for sales. What would you call that? vente@emaildomain.com ?
We have really tried to figure out what this is called on other ...
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Translation of “It is found to be”
The echelon form of the matrix is found to be given by...
La forme échelonnée de la matrice se trouve être donnée par...
I have a feeling that the French turn would sound a bit weird to native ...
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Usage of “tour de force”
In English one can use a tour de force speaking about a display of a skill, or ingenuity. For instance,
In 1943 in a tour de force of mathematical physics, Lars Onsager solved the 2D Ising Model.
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Conveying the idea of « go figure »
En grec nous avons une expression « τρέχα (https://www.wordreference.com/gren/%CF%84%CF%81%CE%AD%CF%87%CE%B1) γύρευε (see, look for, search for, figure out) » (trecha gyreve) ; on le dit de quelque ...
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Has any 19th century author used the term “Galles” for “Gauls” except Étienne Pivert de Senancour in “Obermann”?
Asking other questions (How and when was the name "Pays de Galles" constructed in French?) I found from a comment (see username in last part of that question) about an entry from a 19th ...
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Idiom for “Ahead of its time”
Is En avance sur son temps idiomatic in French as Ahead of its time in English? For instance,
Five Movies with Special Effects Ahead of Their Time.
Cinq films avec effets spéciaux en avance ...
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Quel mot français se rapprocherait de « apricity »?
Je cherche un mot de français ou d'ancien français, ou de français régional, pour traduire « apricity ».
« Apricity » a disparu (quasiment) de la langue anglaise moderne, mais réapparaît parfois.
Il ...
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“Sequence of topics”: French equivalent
What is the French equivalent of "sequence of topics"? Can one use séquence des sujets or thèmes traités?
Below I provide an example of usage of the English expression.
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What is the French verb for ”glitching” ?
This maybe an easy question but I still need help: I want to say in French “My phone is glitching.” But when I look on https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-french nothing comes up.
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Translation of “junket”
What's the translation of “junket” in French?
From https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/junket (mirror):
Informal. An extravagant trip or celebration, in particular one enjoyed by government ...
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Conveying computationally (talking about algorithms; e.g. computationally ineficient/expensive) avec computationnellement
La méthode de Cramer [1] est insuffisante sur le plan des calculs. (computationally inefficient).
La méthode de Cramer est insuffisante computationnellement.
La méthode de Cramer est ...
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« Surprisingly, perhaps,… » et « Étonnamment, peut-être,… »
Surprisingly, perhaps, Matlab gives a solution to this over-determined system.
Étonnamment, peut-être, Matlab donne une solution à ce système surdéterminé.
« Étonnamment » peut-il être employé ...
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Conveying the meaning of “Last nail in the coffin” with “(le) dernier clou dans le cercueil”
The other day, I was trying to convey the meaning of the
Last nail in the coffin.
The literal translation
Dernier clou dans le cercueil.
seems to be unknown to natifs. (Some students didn't ...
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Translation of “hawker” when selling fruits or some other small items in a train
I'm trying to find the proper name for someone who sells fruits or some other small items in a train. The seller is walking around the train trying to find customers:
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“Inline function”
I was searching several sources like
French programming and software terminology?
What is the French term for "inline function" ? Fonction en ligne me paraît faux. Peut-on employer *fonction inline" ...
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Comment traduire « in-place upgrade » : sur place ?
En informatique on trouve le terme « in-place upgrade », une mise à niveau sans supprimer l'installation existante ni les données associées, généralement par opposition au « clean install » (l'...
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Translation for “Readability is one thing, legibility is another”?
J'ai trouvé la phrase « Readability is one thing, legibility is another » dans le livre Agile Documentation et j'aimerais bien avoir deux mots distincts de même sens que ceux en anglais, puisque la ...
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pain quotidien…from where ?
I had assumed that the name of this chain bread bakery was the phase 'daily bread' taken from the Lord's Prayer, but I was recently in a French church and they do not use 'pain quotidien', but ...
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Comment traduire « … to social attacks they receive » : cohérence ?
Research points to users being significantly more susceptible to
social attacks they receive on mobile devices. [...] (2019 Data Breach Investigations Report, Verizon Business, p. 14)
À la lecture ...
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What is the French word for “retrodict”?
I was wondering what was the French word for retrodict, which means:
State a fact about the past based on inference or deduction, rather than evidence.
I looked up rétrodicter, which seems to be ...
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Traduction de l'anglais « man's man »
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On trouve une définition de « man's man » dans le dictionnaire anglais-français « Harrap's »; c'est « un vrai homme, un homme que les autres hommes admirent ». Cependant, dans cette source, ...
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Explain the sentence “Est-ce que cela vous a plu, vous, d'habiter aux États-Unis ?”
Pretty much the title says it all. I recently heard this sentence and I didn't understand what it means.
The translator shows it as "Is it better for you to live in the United States?", but I don't ...
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“Vicinité” : peut-on utiliser le mot couramment ?
Je me demande pourquoi le mot vicinité n'est pas répertorié dans TLFi.
https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/dmf/vicinit%C3%A9
Son emploi est-il considéré comme un anglicisme (vicinity) ?
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Definition of “fracas d'écume”
I want to understand these lyrics by Volo:
Déjà du temps de mes amours vagues
J'étais sourd au fracas de leurs écumes,
Et comme l'amour m'a toujours fait des blagues,
Je dois être aveugle, je ...
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Traduction du réglage ajusté à « twelve o'clock » par analogie ?
Un professionnel prépare un appareil pour fins de calibration (voir par exemple ici entre 2:04:00 et 2:04:20) et je comprends quelque chose comme :
We'll turn the chicken head dial on the bottom ...
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Conveying the word “dot” as opposed to “point”
I am puzzled about the word "dot" in the context of the following paragraph:
Mark on a line the points satisfying the following inequalities, using a circle to indicate an end point which is ...
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“a step down” in French
How do you translate "step down" to French. The meaning I am looking for is:
London is not a step down from Paris
or
The Senate is not a step down from governorship
Does "une etape en bas" ...
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Conveying the idea of “tricky”
The other day I wanted to say to my students
That was easy, here's a trickier one.
I said
Ça c'était facile, en voici un plus délicat.
But I think délicat is of higher register than tricky. ...
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French equivalent of “hands-on tutorial”
What is the equivalent of "hands-on tutorial"? Can one use tutoriel pratique or formation pratique for instance?
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Que veut dire « une ligne de crête » - sens politique ou social et non pas géologique ?
Quel est le sens de la phrase « une ligne de crête », non pas dans le sens géologique du terme mais plutôt dans un sens politique ?
Je l'ai entendu sur France Infos ce soir. C'était dans le cadre d'...
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“Are you happy?” as a greeting
I was speaking with a French-Canadian person recently, and he mentioned that there's a French greeting that translates to "Are you happy?" I thought this was interesting because it strikes me as a ...
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Conveying the idea of “It's piece of cake” by “simple comme bonjour” or “bête comme chou”
L'autre jour j'ai voulu dire
"I cannot understand the grades. The exam paper was a piece of cake."
J'ai dit :
Les notes sont inexplicables. Les sujets étaient simples comme bonjour."
Je ne ...
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Using “meilleure chose depuis le pain en tranches” to convey “best thing since sliced bread”
Googling about the British idiom "Best thing since sliced bread" I encounter the French expression "meilleure chose depuis le pain en tranches". Is it a proper French idiomatic expression? For ...
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The use of “une Cata”
I just saw the following Tweet in French about the MEP Magid Magid.
"Le Swag du depute Magid Magid @MagicMagid au Parlement europeen est sans doute une des raisons pour lesquelles le Brexit est une ...
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Conveying the idea of “Elvis has left the building” (i.e. Sth has come to an end – it’s over)
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_has_left_the_building
Le sens que prend l'expression quand elle est réutilisée hors contexte
est : « C'est fini, il n'y a plus rien à attendre, à espérer ». ...
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Translating “hint” in a mathematical context
J'ai un mot sur le bout de la langue, mais je n'arrive pas à le trouver. Je voudrais rendre en français le mot "hint" dans le contexte d'énoncés des exercices mathématiques. P. ex.
...Here are some ...
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Conveying the idea of “ judge a book by its cover” by “ juger un livre par sa couverture”
What are some colloquial ways to convey the idea of
"You can’t judge a book by its cover"
meaning one should not judge something or someone by how it, he or she looks - it's what's on the inside ...
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Conveying the idea of “(it) speaks for itself” (i.e. sth is clear and needs no further explanation)
What are some colloquial ways to express the idea of "(it) speaks for itself" meaning that something is clear and needs no further explanation?
I have seen examples with "(Quelque chose/Cela) parle d'...
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Conveying the idea of “ It goes without saying” with “Il va sans dire”
When I studied French I was learnt that the expression "it goes without saying" is conveyed by "il va sans dire". Dictionaries affirme this. So for
Of course, it goes without saying that you'll be ...
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Le sens d' « écoblanchiment » s'appuie-t-il vraiment sur l' « action de donner une existence légale… » etc. ?
Dans un titre on trouve « À l'ONU, les jeunes dénoncent l’écoblanchiment » (lapresse.ca) et je ne connaissais pas ce terme (ni le sens de greenwashing vraiment d'ailleurs) et je ne l'ai pas ...
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Conveying the idea of “down the road” (i.e. in the future)
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/down+the+road
Lots of things will have changed a few years down the road.
Down the road is used metaphorically instead of in the future.
One could say
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“he ran up the road” to french
I thought:
Il a couru jusqu'à la route.
But that is "He ran up TO the road."
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Il a couru de la route.
But that is "He ran (away) from the road."
So how would I convey the real meaning ...
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Why is 'rends' needed in this sentence
I am trying to say:
This is the first time I visit her
This is how I thought it should be written:
C'est la première fois que je lui visite
This is how it is actually written:
C'est la ...
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Conveying the sentence “The force can be seen physically as a push or a pull.”
The force can be seen physically as a push or a pull.
Deepl translates this sentence as
La force peut être considérée physiquement comme une poussée ou une traction.
I am wondering if there is a ...
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Comment traduire le concept de « bullet journal » ?
Un usage contemporain du calepin est le bullet journal [« Bullet Journals are usually handwritten, and kept in a single notebook »], concept
d’organiseur mis au point par Ryder Caroll au début des ...
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Emploi de “frappe, mais écoute” ('strike, if you will; but hear') (grec: pataxon men, akouson de)
En grec ancien, on dit
πάταξον μέν, ἄκουσον δέ (pataxon men, akouson de) = strike, if you will; but hear = frappe, mais écoute
Voici un peu de contexte historique.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
