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La chute

English translation: Closing sentence

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French term or phrase:La chute
English translation:Closing sentence
Entered by: veratek

06:12 Jul 22, 2011
French to English translations [PRO]
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French term or phrase: La chute
La chute : C’est la dernière ligne de l’article juste après la conclusion. Vous pouvez vous en servir pour suggérer des questions ou ouvrir sur la rédaction d’un prochain article sur un sujet connexe
veratek
Brazil
Local time: 18:29
Closing sentence
Explanation:
You could have "closing sentence" or "closing paragraph" depending on whether or not it's a sentence or paragraph :)

It is the chance to wrap up the article and feed into other topics.

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Heloise Harrap
United Kingdom
Grading comment
thanks!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +5Closing sentence
Heloise Harrap
3Comments & Suggestions
kashew
3wrap-up
Kari Foster
3 -1the punch line
Alain Mouchel
3 -1Kicker
Emma Paulay


Discussion entries: 2





  

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
the punch line


Explanation:
the punch line

Alain Mouchel
Local time: 23:29
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  writeaway: that's what is in all dictionaries at any rate.......
30 mins
disagree  Heloise Harrap: The punch line comes at the end of a joke. For example, Joke: What's long, brown and sticky? Punch line: A stick.
1 hr
agree  Nikki Scott-Despaigne: Punchline or pucnh line, is not the unique reserve of jokes, but is commonly used to describe the final line of a text also. Dito with "chute" of course.
3 hrs
disagree  AllegroTrans: in spoken communication maybe, but doesn't seem right for written, and anyway we don't know whether the text is "jokey" at all
8 hrs
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +5
Closing sentence


Explanation:
You could have "closing sentence" or "closing paragraph" depending on whether or not it's a sentence or paragraph :)

It is the chance to wrap up the article and feed into other topics.




    Reference: http://www.helium.com/items/1710626-writing-for-helium-the-s...
Heloise Harrap
United Kingdom
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
thanks!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  writeaway: yup. dictionaries are a guide, that's all. common sense (and native knowledge of the target language) also play a role
36 mins
  -> Thank you!
agree  Nikki Scott-Despaigne: Works perfectly well.
2 hrs
  -> Thanks
agree  Barbara Carrara
4 hrs
  -> Thanks
agree  C. Tougas
5 hrs
  -> Thanks
agree  AllegroTrans
11 hrs
  -> Thanks
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Comments & Suggestions


Explanation:
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kashew
France
Local time: 23:29
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 74
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
Kicker


Explanation:
It sounds like you're looking for journalism jargon here.


    Reference: http://mrherold.com/documents/index_files/newspaper-vocabula...
Emma Paulay
France
Local time: 23:29
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 126

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  AllegroTrans: nothing suggest journalism and in any other kind of text this would not work at all
5 hrs
  -> To me, "article" suggests journalism :-)
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
wrap-up


Explanation:
Can be used to mean a summary + conclusions, but in some contexts (e.g. television) it can be used in a more forward-looking sense, in that it provides an epilogue and contains a teaser for next week's episode.

"Epilogue" might also work!

Kari Foster
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:29
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
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