vilkårlige

English translation: any

17:07 Jan 4, 2005
Danish to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Computers (general)
Danish term or phrase: vilkårlige
Telephone:

Medflytning
Der kan etableres medflytning til såvel interne som til vilkårlige eksterne telefonnumre.

How shall I understand villkårlige in this context?
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Local time: 00:27
English translation:any
Explanation:
I agree that the strict meaning of "vilkårlig" is "random", but it doesn't fit here. "random" would mean that a call transfer would call a random telephone number, and in this context, it doesn't make sense. We're not talking about incoming calls, but a transfer of a number to another number. "vilkårlig" seems to be a rather bad use of Danish here.
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vilkårlige
random


Explanation:
random, incidental, unspecified.

'external calls from anywhere'

Basically it means as they come, coming without any regular pattern, as they normally would in real life.

Christine Andersen
Denmark
Local time: 06:27
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

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vilkårlige
any


Explanation:
I agree that the strict meaning of "vilkårlig" is "random", but it doesn't fit here. "random" would mean that a call transfer would call a random telephone number, and in this context, it doesn't make sense. We're not talking about incoming calls, but a transfer of a number to another number. "vilkårlig" seems to be a rather bad use of Danish here.

Finn Skovgaard (X)
Local time: 06:27
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Native speaker of: Native in DanishDanish
PRO pts in category: 8
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