Mar 7, 2008 15:48
16 yrs ago
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French term
France
13 years in France as Spanish Teacher
Native in: Spanish 
Works in: French to Spanish, English to Spanish, Portuguese to Spanish
quelque soit
Non-PRO
French to English
Other
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
In the sentence "La part porteurs / tracteurs est identique quelque soit le nombre de véhicules de la flotte"...I know its an easy one but I´m not sure about how to translate it here.....UK English please.Thanks a lot, merci, gracias
Proposed translations
(English)
| 5 +10 | regardless of |
jessalexande (X)
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| 4 +4 | however many vehicles there may be in the fleet |
CMJ_Trans (X)
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| 5 | whatever might be |
gabuss
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| 4 | whatever the number of vehicles |
Drmanu49
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Change log
Mar 7, 2008 15:57: writeaway changed "Field (specific)" from "Linguistics" to "General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters"
Proposed translations
+10
1 min
Selected
regardless of
most common phrase (both UK and US, fyi)
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "All experts seems agree. Thanks everybody"
1 min
whatever the number of vehicles
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3 mins
whatever might be
OK?
Peer comment(s):
| neutral |
Tony M
: Not really very natural-sounding English / But I'm afraid that "whatever might be" is the part that doesn't sound natural
9 mins
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"whatever might be the number of vehicles in the fleet" should be the full translation, Tony
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+4
8 mins
however many vehicles there may be in the fleet
irrespective of the size of the fleet
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Tony M
: Sounds most natural and idiomatic to my UK ears.
3 mins
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| agree |
cmwilliams (X)
36 mins
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| agree |
Jennifer White
5 hrs
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| agree |
swanda
15 hrs
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