Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
chaque mensualité à courir ou à passer
English translation:
each month elapsed or to be spent
French term
chaque mensualité *à courir ou à passer* dans l'appartement loué
le présent bail est consenti et accepté moyennant un loyer mensuel de 70000 francs payable d'avance au premier jour de chaque mensualité *à courir ou à passer* dans l'appartement loué.
It is a tenancy agreement from Ivory Coast.
Thanks for yor help
| 3 +2 | each month elapsed or spent in the rented apartment |
cc in nyc
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Johanne Bouthillier
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Mar 20, 2012 17:27: Françoise Vogel changed "Language pair" from "English to French" to "French to English"
Mar 22, 2012 00:02: chaplin changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/48424">chaplin's</a> old entry - "chaque mensualité *à courir ou à passer* dans l\'appartement loué"" to ""each month elapsed or spent in the rented apartment""
Mar 30, 2012 03:25: cc in nyc changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/48424">chaplin's</a> old entry - "chaque mensualité *à courir ou à passer* dans l'appartement loué"" to ""each month elapsed or spent in the rented apartment""
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Proposed translations
each month elapsed or spent in the rented apartment
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Note added at 1 hr (2012-03-20 18:08:02 GMT)
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But, given the lack of boilerplate language and given that this is a lease, I'd go with the long form, even though it's just as useless in English as in French. :p
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Note added at 1 day8 hrs (2012-03-22 01:05:38 GMT) Post-grading
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De rien. Courage!
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Johanne Bouthillier
: never hesitate to present a translation better written than the original
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...except when translating a legal document... in which case I would stick with what is written
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Alison Sabedoria (X)
: I think the long form reinforces the idea that the tenant has to pay the rent each month whether the appartment is actually occupied or not.
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Thank you.
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AllegroTrans
: yes, redundant it may be, but it's legal so it has to stay
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Thank you.
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rkillings
: Tense problem: rent is payable *before* any of this has happened.
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Then how about: "on the first of each month elapsed or to be spent..."
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Canada
English to Canadian French translator
Native in: French (Variant: Canadian)
Works in: English to French
mois
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Note added at 1 hr (2012-03-20 18:16:22 GMT)
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month, en anglais...
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Manuela Ribecai
: Oui, tout à fait, simplement.
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merci
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philgoddard
53 mins
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merci
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writeaway
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merci
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AllegroTrans
: the words may be redundant to people of commonsense, but they appear in the original and need to be translated; it is a legal document and a translator cannot edit it in this manner// the jury is out on that question!!
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do you mean that people who write legal document have no commonsense? ;-
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