Apr 11, 2011 13:09
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Catalan term
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Déu n'hi do!
Catalan to English
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Idioms / Maxims / Sayings
CONTEXT: "Déu n'hi do amb l'estona que es va estar parlant dels seus projectes futurs. Al final no se sabia si la conferència era sobre el descobriment o sobre ell mateix!"
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Veronica Lambert Hall
Spain
Spain
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Spain
Social Sciences and the Arts
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Works in: Catalan to English, Spanish to English
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Catalan term (edited):
Déu n\'hi do!
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They spent ages .... They spent a heck of a long time ...
Déu n'hi do would normally be something like "Good grief" but the context here requires it to be changed.
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Ross Andrew Parker
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What a lot of time they spent...
It's just an all-purpose exclamation. You can use anything that gives the sentence as a whole and exclamatory character and doesn't sound too ridiculous.
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Josh Goldsmith
Switzerland
Switzerland
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Switzerland
Over ten years of trilingual experience
Native in: English , Spanish
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Wow // Amazing // Incredible // Crazy...
A few other options.
You could phrase the sentence like this:
Amazing...they spent so long talking about their future projects that in the end...
You could phrase the sentence like this:
Amazing...they spent so long talking about their future projects that in the end...
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Caroline Clarke
Native in English
PhD Chemist Cambridge, Barcelona, London
Native in: English
Works in: Spanish to English, Catalan to English
Catalan term (edited):
Déu n\'hi do!
May God give it ("blimey")
It's in old-fashioned language which is why it doesn't seem to make sense. Think "blimey". That comes from "may the Lord blind me", translated as "cor", "goodness", "how surprising", etc., but a non-native English speaker trying to translate it would perhaps struggle.
Anyway, Deu n'hi do more or less translates as "blimey", or other general expression of surprise.
Anyway, Deu n'hi do more or less translates as "blimey", or other general expression of surprise.
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