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Translation - Turks-Engels - Belki de Allah doğru kişiyle karşılaşmadan önce...

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Belki de Allah doğru kişiyle karşılaşmadan önce...
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Submitted by adanademir
Source language: Turks

Belki de Allah doğru kişiyle karşılaşmadan önce yanlış insanlarla karşılaşmamızı istemiştir. Minnet duygusunu böyle tadacağız.

Title
Allah may want us to meet with wrong people before finding right one
Translation
Engels

Translated by Çevirmen
Target language: Engels

Allah may want us to meet the wrong people before we find the right one. That way, we experience a sense of gratitude.
Laaste geakkrediteerde redigering deur Lein - 13 December 2010 15:20





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7 December 2010 11:43

Lein
Number of messages: 3389
Hello again, Çevirmen

I suggest some tiny modifications to make the English sound more natural. Let me know if you agree


Allah may want us to meet the wrong people before we find the right one. That way, we experience what gratitude really is.

10 December 2010 17:33

Lein
Number of messages: 3389
Before edits: Allah may want us to meet with wrong people before finding right one. We experience sense of gratitude in this way.

11 December 2010 00:21

merdogan
Number of messages: 3769
Allah may want us to meet...> Perhaps Allah wants us to meet.....

...we experience what gratitude really is...> we will learn what gratitude really is.

11 December 2010 22:25

Çevirmen
Number of messages: 59
Hi Lein again,

I am suspicious about you are Turkish speaker=)

Your suggesstion is great as well and satisfies the meaning. At the end of source text, he says "minnet duygusu" not "minnet". For example,when "mizah" is humor, "mizah duygusu" is sense of humor so I used sense of gratitude instead of gratitude.

When it comes to merdogan's suggestion, at the very beginning of source text, he said "belki de", it is a probability and using "may" is better there.

12 December 2010 00:38

Rise
Number of messages: 126
How about saying "Allah may have wanted..."? Since, the subject seems to have already done the action, "to want". At least that is what I get from the Turkish source and it could be better that way. Still, I wouldn't disagree to the present use.

13 December 2010 15:20

Lein
Number of messages: 3389
Thanks Çevirmen and others,

I have changed the end of the sentence back to the original as it seems my first edit changed the meaning of the text a bit.

I don't think there is a big difference between the meanings of the sentence with 'perhaps' and with 'may'. Both are a sort of speculation. I have left the text as you wrote it here.
As for Rise's suggestion, I think that would change the meaning of the text from a more general case to a particular case (this is what Alla may have wanted to do eg with me). It sounds more like the kind of phrase which would have a more general meaning, so I'll leave this as it is and validate

As for my Turkish, I don't get much further than merhaba and HoÅŸ geldiniz - I think I have just developed a bit of an understanding of what people are trying to say even if the English is not perfect! (As long as it is not too bad, of course )