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| juman Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5028 days ago 101 posts - 129 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: French | Message 1 of 4 28 September 2011 at 4:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm working my way through a song by Ben l'Oncle Soul where the following sentence occurs:
C'est vrai que par ici, les vies prennent la poussière I get that the first part could be translated to "It is true that here" but what does the second part say? Merci, Fredrik 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| balou67 Triglot Newbie France Joined 5042 days ago 15 posts - 31 votes Speaks: French*, Esperanto, English Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese | Message 2 of 4 01 October 2011 at 11:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would say "lives gather dust" (intending "lives passively get covered with accumulating
dust as abandoned things"), as if they were left unusefuly lived, or getting boring. De rien, Christian 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| juman Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5028 days ago 101 posts - 129 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: French | Message 3 of 4 02 October 2011 at 10:10am | IP Logged | ||
Merci beaucoup ! Yes that seems like a good translation.
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| Homogenik Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4634 days ago 314 posts - 407 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Polish, Mandarin | Message 4 of 4 06 October 2011 at 4:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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and a comma should be placed after que (C'est vrai que, par ici, blabla...).
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