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 Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:46 pm Post subject: French Translations? |
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We're writing a paper in French, and as I am only a second year, my vocabulary isn't perfect 
I'm trying to say "I was tired of traveling" or "I was tired of driving"
"J'étais fatigué de la conduite" or "J'étais fatigué du..." I'm not sure how I would put voyager into that sentence. Is the first one correct? We all know google translators are rather useless, it put the first one into "I was tired of controlling" but....that isn't what it means XD
Can anyone help me with it? Je ne sais pas....ha ha ha ha. |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:39 am Post subject: |
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Bonjour!
I speak Spanish, so I'm really not much help there. But, I do dabble in French.
I was tired from the drive.
J'ai été fatigué de l'unité.
I was tired of driving.
J'ai été fatigué du conduite.
Conduite has quite a few meanings: performing, behaving, bearing, deporting, running, managing, motoring, handling, treating, driving a vehicle, etcetera. (Definitions courtesy of Word Reference English-French.)
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:54 am Post subject: |
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Thanks, and it kind of did, though I already got the sentence I needed (And used voyager to do it)
BTW: You put your sentences all in the Passé Composé, they should be in the Imparfait, like mine are. Though, your a Spanish person so you probably don't completely understand what makes the difference of the two, so it's okay (I barely do.)
I used: J'étais fatigué de le voyages.
It may not be entirely correct, but I can get it fixed today, if it isn't.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:01 am Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:54 am Post subject: |
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Would that be the past tense and the imperfect tense?
We use those in Spanish, but I speak no other French than
Bonjour, como ca va? (and I can't type the accents, it's a pain in the...derriere...) |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:04 am Post subject: |
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Bonjour, Comment ça va?*
It ended up being "J'étais fatigué de voyager." by the way. of + infinitive.
And yes, past tense and imperfect. |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 3:57 am Post subject: |
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| we just started tenses (im in french 1) |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:49 am Post subject: |
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| chocolatechipmuffin wrote: |
We use those in Spanish |
Yes, I think all languages do. I just dabbling in French,I don't know about it in French, yet.
Sorry about all of that. I wish I could have helped, but alas, I did not. Sorry. |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:18 am Post subject: |
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| It's perfectly fine! You speak spanish, anyway, and it was one of those small details that was easy to be confused on. |
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