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Etes vous la ? J’ai vraiment besoin de la...
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Submitted by deha
Source language: French

Etes vous la ?

J’ai vraiment besoin de la traduction ...

Title
Are you there? I really need the translation...
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English

Translated by turkishmiss
Target language: English

Are you there? I really need the translation...
Validated by dramati - 10 January 2008 22:19





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Message

10 January 2008 16:19

Freya
Number of messages: 1910
Sorry, "là" doesn't mean "there" ? So it should be "Are you there ?" ?

10 January 2008 16:53

deha
Number of messages: 6
Thanks a lot, it really helped me a lot.

Regards

10 January 2008 17:12

goncin
Number of messages: 3706
Shouldn't "la" be translated into "there"?

10 January 2008 17:55

Scarabicchio
Number of messages: 1
perchè secondo me è are you here..

10 January 2008 18:15

asmaingeneer
Number of messages: 19
là--> here
are you here?

10 January 2008 18:48

turkishmiss
Number of messages: 2132
First I wrote "are you here", after two vote against, I changed it, dramati what do you think?
Are you here?
or
are you there?

10 January 2008 20:25

Nego
Number of messages: 66
etes should be êtes (alt 0234)

10 January 2008 21:39

dramati
Number of messages: 972
This is a difficult call. However, based on the sentence structure I would think that "there" is probably more in keeping with the sentence than "here". If the person was "here" it would not be necessary to ask the question in the first place, but if the person was "there" then it is quite normal to ask, "Are you there?"

The French/English dictionary puts it this way:
là Adverb (a) (indicating position of speaker etc) here, (indicating distance from speaker etc) there.

So, it could be either way. I vote, judging from the sentence structure and the logic I just wrote about, that the person who wrote it intended it to mean "there". Either way turkishmiss should get points for providing us with a very interesting discussion. Let me know what you guys think.

11 January 2008 00:23

Tantine
Number of messages: 2747
Hi all

The French "là" will generally be translated as "there" in English. It can sometimes be translated as "here", but as dramati rightly points out, the contexte helps us place the correct translation as "there".

In general the French equivalent of the English "here" is "ici".

Bises
Tantine

11 January 2008 05:28

dramati
Number of messages: 972
Yes. The French word la is a word for use concerning distance, as you can see by my last post. Only a blind man would say "are you here" in English if he wanted to know if someone was standing next to him...and he would probably say "are you there" as well, since in English it is used in that way even if someone is standing next to you...like waving a hand in front of the eyes of a drunken friend and saying, "Hello...is anybody THERE?"