YOU THE LIVING

French translation: Vous les vivants

11:42 Mar 7, 2005

English to French translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature

English term or phrase: YOU THE LIVING

YOU THE LIVING.
Poem by Goethe: Be pleased then, you the living, in your delightfully warmed bed, before Lethe´s ice-cold wave
will lick your escaping foot.

Yann Anyr Bouchedor KudoZ activity Questions: 47 (6 open) (2 without valid answers) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 178 Canada
Local time: 22:45

French translation:Vous les vivants

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Nathalie Reis
Local time: 03:45

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Merci Nathalie
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Summary of answers provided

4 +6

Vous les vivants

Nathalie Reis

3 +2

Vous les vivants

Michel A.

vous autres vivants

CMJ_Trans (X)

voir note

Joëlle Bouille

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1 min confidence:

peer agreement (net): +6

you the living

Vous les vivants

Explanation:
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Nathalie Reis
Local time: 03:45
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 19

Grading comment

Merci Nathalie

1 min confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

you the living Vous les vivants

Explanation:
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L\'éléphant vert : Animations interventions - [ Translate this page ]
... Vous les vivants, sentez la voix du vent, elle vous convie à rendre carnaval
subversif à plaisir ! Et si par malheur, vous oubliez ce rendez-vous ...
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L’éternité : Une journée en paradis - [ Translate this page ]
... Vous, les vivants, vous ne pouvez pas vous imaginer combien un esprit sans
corps tient en peu de place, sans compter qu\'on peut être plusieurs à occuper ...
atheisme.free.fr/Recreation/Eternite.htm - 9k - Cached - Similar pages

Visite au Collège et au Séminaire (Gravelbourg) - [ Translate this page ]
... Vous marchez avec honneur, vous les vivants et les militants, sur les traces
de vos nobles devanciers, soit dans le ministère paroissial, ...
www.diocese-edmundston.ca/.../eveque/souvenir.du.sacre/ visite.au.college.et.au.seminaire-gravelbourg.htm - 10k - 5 Mar 2005 - Cached - Similar pages

Prière d’après le Psaume 115 - [ Translate this page ]
... Les morts ne peuvent plus louer le Seigneur. Alors tant que vous le pouvez ,vous,
les vivants, louez-le, bénissez le, maintenant et à jamais. ...
www.portstnicolas.org/article.php3?id_article=589 - 9k - Cached - Similar pages

Michel A.
Local time: 22:45
Works in field
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 24

6 mins confidence:

you the living voir note

Explanation:
"Réjouissez-vous donc, vous encore vivants, dans la délicieuse tiédeur de votre repos, ..."

Just how I would translate ...
Note that "..., vous les vivants, ..." does not hurt the native french ear either ...

Joëlle Bouille
France
Local time: 04:45
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 4

10 mins confidence:

vous autres vivants

Explanation:
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CMJ_Trans (X)
Local time: 04:45
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 55

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