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12/05/2008, 17:47 Rez Joined on 23/07/2007 Posts 6 Simple Translation? Hi people! I just wondered if anyone could translate this small 15 word statement for my planning application... It would be a great help to me - I could send you over some Marmite or perhaps some Branston pickle. Thanks in advance. Mc " Renovation of an existing building, back into habitatable use. Comprising of 2 en-suite bedrooms and lounge "    Report

12/05/2008, 18:03 geoff Joined on 06/05/2008 france Posts 69 Re: Simple Translation? Try your P.C. G    Report

12/05/2008, 19:19 Nell Joined on 14/08/2007 24 Posts 73 Re: Simple Translation? Using www.freetranslation.com this is what you get.... La restauration d'un bâtiment existant, de retour dans l'usage de habitatable. Comprendre de 2 chambres à coucher d'en-suite et la salon If you go into the above site you can play about with the English/French until you get a good translation (the translator gives the "gist") Another site that may help for single words - www.wordreference.com I hope this helps you more than the last post!!!! Regards    Report

12/05/2008, 20:00 geoff Joined on 06/05/2008 france Posts 69 Re: Simple Translation? Pardon           Touche G    Report

12/05/2008, 22:10 Cathy Joined on 07/03/2006 Mostly near Bordeaux; Sometimes near Bristol Posts 1,685 Re: Simple Translation? Rez - Welcome to the Forum. Geoff and Nell - the problem with online translations is that thay can be completely off-beam.  I used an online translation for a letter to a propane gas company about a gas tank in the garden. It translated tank into a French word for a reservoir.  The rep came out to see me a few days later and said that my letter had been passed around their office for laughs because I had asked for a large reservoir to be installed in my back garden! Rez - there are a number of French people in this Forum and hopefully, they can assist.  Clair, for example, is really helpful.   Cathy ----- Your children won't remember you ironing their pyjamas but they will remember you reading them a bedside story.    Report

12/05/2008, 23:03 Phil & Pat Joined on 24/12/2006 Falaise, Calvados (14) Posts 98 Re: Not so Simple Translation? Can I suggest you take care translating the phrase "en-suite bedrooms"?  I believe that is a peculiarly English phrase.    Report

13/05/2008, 0:24 Ron Avery Joined on 29/11/2004 Posts 3,099 Re: Not so Simple Translation? Yes like la crème de la crème, en-suite is not a French Expression.   Try http://freetranslation.imtranslator.com/ or http://dictionary.reference.com/translate/  for translations, both are quite good but with all such sites need caution.  Also try using French phrasing not English. If you put : La rénovation d'un bâtiment existant à l'utilisation habitable. Le batiment consistera de 2 chambres avec les salles de bains et une salle de séjour.   They will know what you intend. Driven away by an idiot    Report

13/05/2008, 18:11 Weegie Joined on 19/12/2007 Posts 45 Re: Not so Simple Translation? As Ron has suggested but you could insert the word "attenantes"  after "salles de bains" i.e "Le bâtiment consistera de 2 chambres avec salles de bain attenantes et une salle de sejour." which makes it clear that the bathrooms are en suite which is, as has been said, an English expression.    Report

13/05/2008, 18:22 spg Joined on 23/08/2004 Southern Morbihan 56 Posts 1,047 Re: Simple Translation?  Rez wrote: Comprising of 2 en-suite bedrooms and lounge " What the estate agents around us say for 'en-suite' is: **salle d'eau (or salle de bain) privative**. Sue   Computing - it's another world    Report

13/05/2008, 21:29 Gengulphus Joined on 30/01/2008 Saône et Loire Posts 84 Re: Simple Translation? A quick google of pages francophone reveals that a surprisingly large number of impeccably French people seem to use the expression 'salle de bain en suite'.  As it is unknown in France I wonder what they can possibly mean by it? I must admit, however, to being baffled by the concept of a bedroom 'en suite'  -  this, under most circumstances, sounds like a highly inconvenient arrangement. As for crème de la crème, it appears (merely to give one citation amongst the thousands), no less than three times in Grunwald's Vie de Metternich (1938). It's good, provided it lasts… Letizia Bonaparte    Report

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