kelintas vaikas gimė motinai
English translation: number of children previously born to a mother
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| 14:10 Jun 25, 2010 |
| Lithuanian to English translations [PRO] Law/Patents - Certificates, Diplomas, Licenses, CVs / birth certificate | |||||||
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| 4 | position in the birth order to the mother |
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| 5 -1 | how many children were born to the mother |
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1 hr confidence: 
position in the birth order to the mother Explanation: Unfortunately cannot make it shorter - otherwise it doesn't work, and the practice of recording this on, e.g., the birth certificate, itself is not very common. You could use "among siblings" as it is often used * ... but your source text says 'mother' - with all the implications. * "The infant's position in birth order among his or her siblings", http://www.answers.com/topic/birth-certificate, "Birth order is defined as a person's rank by age among his or her siblings." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_Order -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2010-06-25 15:50:29 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- [Another example...] "Adler stressed that <B>the birth order</B> was an important determiner of personality. In spite of common heritage, siblings are usually very different from each other. It is not the child’s <B>position in the birth order</B> that influences character, but the situation into which one is born and the way one interprets it." http://www.infinityinst.com/articles/alfred_adler_family.htm... Example sentence(s):
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_Order |
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7 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): -1
peer agreement (net): -1how many children were born to the mother Explanation: If the question on the questionnaire is "Kelintas vaikas gimė motinai?", the question has to be comprehensible to the respondent. I think it would be justified in this instance to translate the meaning, not the specific words. And the meaning is "How many children were born to the mother before this one?" Alternativel, in colloquial English most people would say "How many children did the mother have before this one?", but that is ambiguous. "How many children did the mother BEAR before this one?" sounds more old-fashioned but it is more precise. |
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