Translation - French-English - J'ai eu la chance de rencontrer une personne...

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J'ai eu la chance de rencontrer une personne...

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samzdatee

Source language: French

J'ai eu la chance de rencontrer une personne merveilleuse, qui m'a donnÃ© envie d'avancer et de devenir quelqu'un de bien... Mais j'ai tout gÃ¢chÃ©, Ã cause de mon Ã©goÃ¯sme, ma jalousie et mon incomprÃ©hension... Je sais qu'aujourd'hui il est trop tard, et que sa vie ira bien mieux sans moi. Mais je voulais qu'elle sache qu'elle est la plus belle chose qui me soit arrivÃ©e, et qu'elle restera Ã jamais dans mon coeur. Bonne chance petit ange...

Title

I was lucky enough to meet ...

Translation

English

Translated by

lilian canale

Target language: English

I was lucky enough to meet a wonderful person, who made me want to move forward and become someone good...but I've screwed all up, because of my selfishness, my jealousy and my incomprehension...I know it's too late now and that her life will be much better without me.
But I want her to know she is the most beautiful thing that has ever happened to me, and that she will remain in my heart forever. Good luck little angel...

Validated by Francky5591

- 9 September 2008 14:15

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	Author	Message
		9 September 2008 00:22
	guilon Number of messages: 1549	"I have had the chance to meet..." would be in French J'ai eu l'occasion de ... J'ai eu la chance is something like "I was lucky enough to..." And I would use simple past in the first sentences.
		9 September 2008 00:27
	lilian canale Number of messages: 14972	Thank you Guilon, you are right. That's the exact meaning.
		9 September 2008 00:45
	gamine Number of messages: 4611	Hello Guillon. Agree with you for the two first sentences into simple past. But disagree with you concerning : "I've have had the chance to"....in French you can say : J'ai eu de la chance" and not "not opportunitÃ© which in English gives : " opportuneness".==
		9 September 2008 00:36
	gamine Number of messages: 4611	Sorry, Lilian, but guilon is wrong. read above. CC: guilon
		9 September 2008 00:53
	guilon Number of messages: 1549	Now I am the one who disagrees J'ai eu de la chance, je suis nÃ© dans un pays tropical means exactly the same as J'ai eu la chance de naÃ®tre dans un pays tropical I don't quite follow your reasoning about "opportunitÃ©"
		9 September 2008 01:04
	guilon Number of messages: 1549	In the two examples I just gave, you can see that the first sentence is not followed by a subordinate clause (it is followed by another independent sentence of course) while the second one is. You couldn't say j'ai eu de la chance de naÃ®tre dans un pays tropical I still think J'ai eu la chance de rencontrer une personne merveilleuse is a talk about luck.
		9 September 2008 01:15
	gamine Number of messages: 4611	Hello Guillon. Explained the way you just have explained it to me , you must be right. Honestly, I have never really learned French Grammar. Learned French by speaking and reading but are happy about this discussing, because you have just learned me something new.Thanks a lot.
		9 September 2008 01:29
	guilon Number of messages: 1549	No, gamine, thank you, I was lucky enough to be given the chance to elaborate on my reasons

Translation - French-English - J'ai eu la chance de rencontrer une personne...

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: J'ai eu de la chance"

"not opportunitÃ© which in English gives