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Translation - Afrikaans-English - Daar is voorsorgmaatreels wat gevolg moet word.

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Daar is voorsorgmaatreels wat gevolg moet word.
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Submitted by kock.lizelle
Source language: Afrikaans

Daar is voorsorgmaatreels wat gevolg moet word.
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voorsorgmaatreels

Title
precautions
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English

Translated by Lein
Target language: English

There are precautions that must be followed.
Validated by Tantine - 30 October 2008 01:09





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Author
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8 October 2008 23:41

Tantine
Number of messages: 2747
Hello Lein

I've set a poll

Bises
Tantine

15 October 2008 23:04

AspieBrain
Number of messages: 212
There are precautions that have to be followed. = THESE are precautions that MUST be followed.

16 October 2008 12:40

Lein
Number of messages: 3389
I'm fine with replacing 'have to be' by 'must be'. Why do you prefer 'must'?

I'm not sure about 'these are' though. I think in Afrikaans, 'daar is' is generally being used for the Dutch 'er is' or 'er zijn' -> there is, there are. Or am I mistaken?
See for example this text about Afrikaans
http://www.let.uu.nl/nederlands/nlren/literatuurgeschiedenisZuidAfrika/begin.html

16 October 2008 15:42

Tantine
Number of messages: 2747
Hi Lein, Hi AspieBrain

For me "must" and "have to" have the same function here and are interchangeable.

As for "these" or "there", in my humble opinion, if it was "these" the phrase would need to say:

"these are the precautions that have to be followed", since I find that the absence of article in case of the use of "these" makes the phrase extremely vernacular and informal.

What do you think?

Bises
Tantine

16 October 2008 15:46

Lein
Number of messages: 3389
I would stick with 'there' I think, unless AspieBrain can convince me I misunderstood the Afrikaans 'daar' (which is of course entirely possible!)
I've changed 'have to' to 'must' - I don't mind so whatever makes others (AspieBrain) happy