Questions tagged [traduction]
Questions concernant l'équivalent français d'une expression ou d'un mot d'une autre langue.
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How to turn name into verb (inventing it in effect)
I've just watched a funny interview with President Camacho, the main character in the film Idiocracy, who has travelled back in time to run for the White House in 2024.
Je viens de regarder une ...
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What does the phrase "me ficher à l'eau" mean?
I have come across a baffling expression, and it is "me ficher à l'eau."
I found it in a quote from Georges Feydeau’s play "Le Dindon." The quote (and my attempt at a translation) ...
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"Des fini ton plat"?
I saw this in a reddit post talking about restaurants on the coast of France and I just can't make heads or tails of the bolded excerpt:
J’ai graduellement déchanté en voyant les restaurants, lounges....
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How to say "later bedtime"?
I am watching a cartoon, in which a dentist threatens a bunch of children that he will rat them out on a stolen magazine unless the children return it. If the dentist tells their parents, they will ...
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Le service de Sèvres à l'N (in 19th century novel)
The second sentence of Edmond de Goncourt's Chérie (published 1884) begins
Des fleurs sur la table, les domestiques en mollets, le service de Sèvres à l'N couronné en or [...]
I'm not sure about le ...
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What's the most accurate translation for "Comic Convention"?
Comic Conventions, or Cosplay, Anime, Manga Conventions are popular all around the globe. How would native French people name them?
I found many possibilities:
convention d'anime
évènement manga
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Existe-t-il un mot pour les « animaux non humains » ?
Puisque les humains sont des animaux, existe-t-il un mot pour désigner les animaux non humains ?
Cette question répond à ma question pour la langue anglaise.
Il est proposé le terme "wildlife&...
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Comment comprendre « Diamants sur canapé » ?
Je viens d’apprendre que le film américain Breakfast at Tiffany’s s’intitule en français Diamants sur canapé, quoique la traduction de la nouvelle de Truman Capote sur laquelle le film se base s’...
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What is the translation of "overhead transport system" in French?
Example of an overhead transport system:
What is the translation of "overhead transport system" in French?
Google Translate says: "système de transport aérien", which sounds ...
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What is the translation of "a discrete GPU" in French?
From intel.com:
Discrete graphics is a GPU that is a separate from the processor. Discrete graphics has its own dedicated memory that is not shared with the CPU.
What is the translation of "a ...
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What is the translation of "to do air quotes" in French?
Example:
I'm doing air quotes as I say this.
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a pair of quotation marks gestured by raising and flexing the index and middle fingers, used to indicate that what is being said is ironic or ...
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What is the translation of misgendering in French?
Misgendering is:
the act of using the incorrect gender when referring to another person.
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A United Airlines passenger flying from San Francisco to Austin with her young child was kicked off ...
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Conveying 'odds and ends'
In the context of a mathematics blog, "odds and ends" typically refers to miscellaneous topics or a collection of various mathematical insights, tips, problems, curiosities, and discussions ...
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What is the translation of lawfare in French?
Lawfare is:
the strategic use of legal proceedings to intimidate or hinder an opponent.
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Not cool of them to try (for the third time) to impede SpaceX’s progress by lawfare. [Elon Musk]
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Translating "pousse à gouverner au centre" (passage from "Affaire Dreyfus" Wikipedia article)
I'm scratching my head as to what this passage means:
L'opposition des radicaux et des socialistes pousse à gouverner au centre, d'où des choix politiques orientés vers le protectionnisme économique, ...
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