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weed along

French translation: désherber, retirer ou éliminer les mauvaises herbes

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English term or phrase:weed along
French translation:désherber, retirer ou éliminer les mauvaises herbes
Entered by: GILLES MEUNIER

06:19 Jun 26, 2017
English to French translations [PRO]
Botany
English term or phrase: weed along
In a mining company's quarterly report on activities in the DRC.
Meeting with the infrastructure minister on the project to ***weed along*** the length of the National Highway.
Solen Fillatre
France
Local time: 23:12
désherber, retirer ou éliminer les mauvaises herbes
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GILLES MEUNIER
France
Local time: 23:12
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Summary of answers provided
5 +5désherber, retirer ou éliminer les mauvaises herbes
GILLES MEUNIER
4 -1supprimer les mauvaises herbes
Tony M
Summary of reference entries provided
Mauvaises herbes, herbes folles et adventices
ph-b (X)

  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
weed
supprimer les mauvaises herbes


Explanation:
...along the length of the highway

Your parsing is curious: 'to weed' is a verb in its own right, and is then followed by the prepositional phrase 'along the length of the National Highway'.

Tony M
France
Local time: 23:12
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 19

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  FX Fraipont (X): désherber les abords de la chaussée
2 mins
  -> Merci, F-X !
disagree  GILLES MEUNIER: ça ne se dit pas en français, supprimer les mauvaises herbes. On les retire ou on les élimine. Vous pouvez supprimer des fichiers mais pas de mauvaises herbes....
23 mins
  -> Very strange that, considering 47,000 people HAVE said it on Google! Perhaps it's just not YOUR favourite way of saying it...
disagree  mchd: d'accord avec Gilles : sur notre terre France, on retire ou on élimine les mauvaises herbesourant
2 hrs
  -> Fortunately, 47,000 other FR-speakers don't agree with you two.
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29 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +5
désherber, retirer ou éliminer les mauvaises herbes


Explanation:
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GILLES MEUNIER
France
Local time: 23:12
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 86
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  florence metzger
42 mins
agree  Hélène ALEXIS
1 hr
agree  ph-b (X): désherbage (pour ce genre de texte technique)
2 hrs
agree  mchd
2 hrs
agree  Annie Rigler
4 hrs
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Reference comments


7 hrs
Reference: Mauvaises herbes, herbes folles et adventices

Reference information:
Ce n'est pas l'objet de la question, mais permettez à un botaniste-jardinier amateur de planter une graine ici : s'il s'agit d'un texte technique plutôt que d'une généralisation grand public, il serait préférable d'utiliser le terme « adventice », plus technique que les mauvaises herbes et autres herbes folles. Cf. par exemple : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventice.

De toute manière, « désherbage » seul suffit ici. Quelque chose comme : « Réunion avec le ministre des Infrastructures à propos du projet de désherbage le long de [National Highway]. »

ph-b (X)
France
Native speaker of: French
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