accompanger

English translation: attend to (someone)

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French term or phrase:	accompanger
English translation:	attend to (someone)
Entered by:	Jana Cole

19:28 May 7, 2013

French to English translations [Non-PRO]
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French term or phrase: accompanger

I'm wondering if there's nuanced meaning of accompagner that I'm not getting. I'm confused about what's doing the "accompanying," the emotions or the nurses. I have:

My research subject deals with nurses' emotions when ??? the end of life. This research subject has already been approached in several works, but I wish to take it up again within the context of palliative care in hematology.

Mon sujet de recherche traite sur les émotions des soignants quand ils *** accompagnent *** en fin de vie. Ce sujet de recherche a déjà été abordé dans plusieurs ouvrages mais je souhaitais le reprendre dans le cadre des soins palliatiff en service d'hématologie.

Jana Cole KudoZ activity Questions: 656 (none open) (67 closed without grading) Answers: 7 United States
Local time: 04:11

[...] when they stay by the side of their dying patients

Explanation:
Just another suggestion. I find Tony's answer works fine too.

Selected response from:

Kévin Bernier
France
Local time: 13:11

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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +2

accompany people

Tony M

4 +1

provide care

Jane F

support/provide supportive care

Anne Greaves

[...] when they stay by the side of their dying patients

Kévin Bernier

when they attend /are there for

Verginia Ophof

caring

Simon Charass

Discussion entries: 6

Answers

1 hr confidence:

[...] when they stay by the side of their dying patients

Explanation:
Just another suggestion. I find Tony's answer works fine too.

Kévin Bernier
France
Local time: 13:11
Works in field
Native speaker of: French

Notes to answerer

Asker: I chose this answer because, even though it's literal, it helps me understand what's meant by accompanying.

1 hr confidence:

when they attend /are there for

Explanation:
suggestion

Verginia Ophof
Belize
Local time: 05:11
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 53

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

provide care

Explanation:
I don't think nurses accompany people at the end of their lives but they do provide care for them.

Jane F
France
Local time: 13:11
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 58

10 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

accompagner accompany people

Explanation:
I don't think there's so much a nuance of meaning here — 'to accompany' is something of a buzzword these days, over and above its straightforward literal meaning.

I think the real issue is that we are unused to seeing it used as an intransitive verb like this, and it will probably work best in your translation if you treat it as the transitive verb that's more usual in EN and simply add in an object that is implied in FR; cf. so many cases of adjectives etc. used in FR without a personal noun, like 'le culpable' = 'the guilty (one/person/party, etc.)'

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Note added at 14 mins (2013-05-07 19:43:06 GMT)
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'accompanying' in this sense is more than just 'being with', but involves notions of 'support', 'help' — and of course 'caring' as Simon has (I think!) said. But the specific use of 'accompany' to me conveys an overall notion of 'being there' for someone — the term is (over?)used so much these days in other business fields, but I think there is a point to it.

It's a bit like saying that 'to support' is more empowering (or less disempowering) than 'to help'.

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Note added at 1 hr (2013-05-07 20:55:07 GMT)
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I really think this is something of a jargon word in both languages, and as such, it is slightly perverse (and arguably pointless) to try and paraphrase it in other terms, none of which solutions somehow quite conjures up the whole gamut of what 'accompanying' is all about.

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Note added at 1 hr (2013-05-07 20:56:37 GMT)
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Note added at 10 hrs (2013-05-08 05:49:50 GMT)
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Naturall, as A/T has suggested in the discussion area, one might prefer 'patients' or some other noun — the whole point being, of course, that in EN it reads more smoothly with some kind of noun.

Chris C. of course has a point, in suggesting that it would probably be better to rephrase entirely in EN anyway; my primary concern was to answer your initial question, but in terms of a final translation solution, I'm rather inclined towards Chris's suggestion.

Tony M
France
Local time: 13:11
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 348

12 hrs confidence:

support/provide supportive care

Explanation:
In my opinion accompagner usually implies some sort of empathy with the object, in this case the patient.

Anne Greaves
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:11
Native speaker of: English

21 hrs confidence:

caring

Explanation:
… when caring for terminally ill patients.

Simon Charass
Canada
Local time: 07:11
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

French

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