French term
à (déduire à)
My issue is as follows: if "régler à" means "payment TO", then "déduire à" should also mean "deduct TO"; but I'd usually expect to see the collocation "deduct + FROM".
The terms appear as headings in a table:
"Siège social du vendeur (CO)
Régler à (RE) /Déduire à
Commandé par (BY)"
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Tony M
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Feb 17, 2019 14:28: Rachel Fell changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
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Proposed translations
deduct from
| Cheers Tony. So, in the end it's just like Spanish, as I suspected - "à" can mean both to and from. I'm much less au fait with the niceties of French translation nowadays - this is only my third FR text in over a year and I've forgotten loads... |
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writeaway
: What else? The problem isn't the 'correctness' of the French preposition, it's how to say it in English. And in this case, there aren't (m)any options
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Thanks, W/A!
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Charles Davis
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Thanks, Charles!
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Victoria Britten
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Thanks, Victoria!
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Ph_B (X)
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Merci, Ph_B !
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Sarah Bessioud
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Merci, Sarah ! :-)
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Daryo
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Thanks, Daryo!
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Discussion
You're right that "deduct from" is normally "déduire de", when you're referring to deducting one quantity from another. I think "à" here expresses the idea that the deduction affects someone. To quote an example culled at random from the Internet, "Pour une journée d'absence injustifiée, on m'a déduit 7 heures sur mon salaire". So "déduire à quelqu'un" would mean making a deduction at someone's expense. But maybe I'm overthinking it and "déduire à" is simply a variant of "déduire de".