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se libera

English translation: pay/settle

09:38 Jul 9, 2009
French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Bus/Financial - Business/Commerce (general) / bidding document
French term or phrase: se libera
Context:
'Le Maitre d'Ouvrage se libera des sommes dues par lui au titre du present marche en faisant donner credit au compte no.......'
mportal
Local time: 16:29
English translation:pay/settle
Explanation:
imo
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Jane RM
France
Local time: 17:29
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2pay/settle
Jane RM
4shall be cleared of all amounts due
MatthewLaSon
4discharged himself
Rebecca Davis
3will pay
Bashiqa
2 +1Not for grading
mchd


  

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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
pay/settle


Explanation:
imo

Jane RM
France
Local time: 17:29
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 53
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Radu DANAILA
0 min
agree  Julie Barber
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
will pay


Explanation:
He is liberating himself of the amounts due to be paid.

Bashiqa
France
Local time: 17:29
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 66
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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Not for grading


Explanation:
S'agissant de documents de soumission, on devrait y lire "le Maître d'Ouvrage se libérera ..." et non "se libéra"

mchd
France
Local time: 17:29
Works in field
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 12
Notes to answerer
Asker: Yes, thank you. I think French is the national language but not the native language of the people who wrote this document.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Sandra Petch: The tense was throwing me too!
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shall be cleared of all amounts due


Explanation:
Hello,

This is how I'd say it.

By the way, it should read "se libérera" in French.

I hope this helps.

MatthewLaSon
Local time: 11:29
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 175
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discharged himself


Explanation:
I think this works in this context

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Note added at 4 days (2009-07-13 10:54:14 GMT)
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Sorry not to come back to you before (busy, busy!), two things which come to mind. First of all, the sentence appears to be using the past historic, which is odd for a business document, I agree, so the answers should reflect that. Second, the M.O (who could well be a person) seems to be passing on to payment to someone else here, rather than actually paying himself. If the non-reflexive form of "liberer" had been used, I would agree with you 100% though...Perhaps the next part of the sentence would help.
Rebecca

Rebecca Davis
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:29
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 109

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Julie Barber: Hi Rebecca, I think that discharged could perhaps work for a debt but not making a payment. Also we don't know that it's a man - the "lui" will just be standard French for the "Le Maitre d'Ouvrage" (probably a company not a person)
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