Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
Off screws
French translation:
vis qui ont été ôtées/dévissées
- The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2019-10-18 11:54:07 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)
English term
France
Lawyers do it better
Native in: French
Works in: English to French, Spanish to French, Italian to French
Off screws
| 3 +1 | vis qui ont été ôtées/dévissées |
florence metzger
|
| 4 +1 | 4 vis |
Tony M
|
Oct 18, 2019 16:40: Tony M changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Non-PRO (3): mchd, GILLES MEUNIER, Tony M
When entering new questions, KudoZ askers are given an opportunity* to classify the difficulty of their questions as 'easy' or 'pro'. If you feel a question marked 'easy' should actually be marked 'pro', and if you have earned more than 20 KudoZ points, you can click the "Vote PRO" button to recommend that change.
How to tell the difference between "easy" and "pro" questions:
An easy question is one that any bilingual person would be able to answer correctly. (Or in the case of monolingual questions, an easy question is one that any native speaker of the language would be able to answer correctly.)
A pro question is anything else... in other words, any question that requires knowledge or skills that are specialized (even slightly).
Another way to think of the difficulty levels is this: an easy question is one that deals with everyday conversation. A pro question is anything else.
When deciding between easy and pro, err on the side of pro. Most questions will be pro.
* Note: non-member askers are not given the option of entering 'pro' questions; the only way for their questions to be classified as 'pro' is for a ProZ.com member or members to re-classify it.
Proposed translations
vis qui ont été ôtées/dévissées
4 vis
By the way, this has been asked many times before, and should already be well covered in the glossary.
--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 20 mins (2019-10-14 13:55:43 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------
One also sometimes finds '×'; in an expression like '4 5-gallon buckets', it feels as if soemthing is necessary between the figures, to make it clear we are not talking about 45-gallon buckets! So we find:
4 of 5-gallon buckets
4 off 5-gallon buckets
4 no. 5-gallon buckets
4 × 5-gallon buckets
--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 5 days (2019-10-20 13:21:51 GMT) Post-grading
--------------------------------------------------
See Asker's later question, in which this meaning is clearly confirmed:
https://www.proz.com/kudoz/6721883
| agree |
FX Fraipont (X)
28 mins
|
|
Merci, F-X ! It helps if one is a native speaker.
|
Something went wrong...