Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
ça gueulait
English translation:
There was shouting
Added to glossary by
C. Tougas
Jun 28, 2017 11:27
6 yrs ago
French term
ça gueulait
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Bonjour,
comment est-ce qu'on pourrait traduire cette expression en anglais?
Je vous donne le contexte:
Avant ici ça grouillait de partout, ça guelait, il y avait de la vie quoi, là il n’y a que les tourists qui passent silencieux.
Le personnage dit ça en passant dans la ville, "ça gueulait" veut dire que avant il y avait beaucoup plus de bruit.
Peut-etre quelque chose comme "it was a shouting place"?
Merci
comment est-ce qu'on pourrait traduire cette expression en anglais?
Je vous donne le contexte:
Avant ici ça grouillait de partout, ça guelait, il y avait de la vie quoi, là il n’y a que les tourists qui passent silencieux.
Le personnage dit ça en passant dans la ville, "ça gueulait" veut dire que avant il y avait beaucoup plus de bruit.
Peut-etre quelque chose comme "it was a shouting place"?
Merci
Proposed translations
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| 3 +1 | There were people everywhere, shouting |
C. Tougas
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| 4 +5 | it was noisy/there was shouting/there was a racket |
Margarida Martins Costelha
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| 4 | there was shouting / voices were raised |
Tony M
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Jul 5, 2017 18:51: C. Tougas Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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There were people everywhere, shouting
I would not say "a shouting place"
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it was noisy/there was shouting/there was a racket
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Barbara Cochran, MFA
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Thank you, Barbara
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Alexandre Tissot
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Merci, Alexandre
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AllegroTrans
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Thank you
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Sheila Wilson
: The first for a neutral tone; the third for a more colloquial feel.
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Thank you, Phil
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Paolo Dagonnier
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Thank you, Paolo
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there was shouting / voices were raised
I quite like the impersonal or passive constructions here; depends how you ahndle the whole thing, I could see something like "it was seething / teeming, there was shouting / raised voices, ..." etc.
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Daryo
: wouldn't "voices were raised" be used when there is some confrontation brewing? All the ST says is "people are talking very loud" - just perfectly normal way of talking in many places around the Mediterranean Sea.
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I don't think so; to me, it doesn't imply 'confrontation' any more than 'gueuler' does in FR: they might be raised in anger, excitement, whatever...
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