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§ 2

English translation: paragraph 2

GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW)
Danish term or phrase:§ 2
English translation:paragraph 2
Entered by: Mabel Garzón

18:00 Jan 1, 2007
Danish to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Law: Taxation & Customs
Danish term or phrase: § 2
§ 2

Is it Section 2?
Mabel Garzón
Colombia
paragraph 2
Explanation:
use the paragrqph sign
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Suzanne Blangsted (X)
Local time: 23:24
Grading comment
Thank you Blangsted and to all for your interesting contributions.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +2paragraph 2
Suzanne Blangsted (X)
5article (or sometimes section)
Plamen Nenchev
5s.2
Eliza-Anna


  

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36 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
paragraph 2


Explanation:
use the paragrqph sign

Suzanne Blangsted (X)
Local time: 23:24
Native speaker of: Native in DanishDanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 48
Grading comment
Thank you Blangsted and to all for your interesting contributions.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jens Kaestel
2 hrs
  -> thank you
agree  Roald Toskedal
5 hrs
  -> thank you
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
article (or sometimes section)


Explanation:
It depends on the context, but if the matter is legal, it is "article", rather than paragraph (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/§). As I have translated documents for the Information Society and Media Directorate of the EU from Danish into English (DG INFSO), I can also provide you (upon request) with a translation instruction which specifically said that § is to be translated as "article".

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Note added at 6 hrs (2007-01-02 00:29:51 GMT)
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EU terminology is certainly somewhat different from main-stream legal terminology. However, if this is a legal text, § is again most certainly "article", a paragraph is a part of an article in a legal text, check out this random search in google: http://www.google.bg/search?hl=bg&q="3, stk. 1&meta=lr=lang_...

In all of the examples, this should read: [name of the act], art. 3, par. 1

Plamen Nenchev
Bulgaria
Local time: 08:24
Native speaker of: Native in BulgarianBulgarian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Suzanne Blangsted (X): EU's directives are often different than most commonly used word "paragraph" or just using the sign. EU has its own directives for its own articles in order to obtain uniformity in all the different languages that is used for EU translations.
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14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
s.2


Explanation:
According to Helle Pals Fransen, it should be "s.2". However it this depends very much on the target recipient of the translation. The functional equivalent in UK English is "section".

Eliza-Anna
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:24
Native speaker of: English
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