Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Russian term or phrase:
С чего это вдруг?
English translation:
Why would he?
Russian term
United Kingdom
14 years of linguistic help in London
Native in: Russian (Variant: Standard-Russia)
Works in: English to Russian, Russian to English
С чего это вдруг?
-С чего это вдруг?
| 3 +3 | Why would he? |
Vladimir Zakharov
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| 3 +2 | Really? Why? |
olganet
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| 3 +1 | What for? |
Tatiana Grehan
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| 3 | where did that come from all of the sudden? |
Donald Jacobson
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| 3 | Like hell he will |
Pavel Altukhov
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Proposed translations
Russian Federation
Giving power back to translators
Native in: Russian 
Works in: Russian to English, English to Russian
Why would he?
| Thank you, Vladimir! Sounds a suitable option; what do you think of mine pls? |
| agree |
Irina Kuzminskaya
35 mins
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| agree |
Denis Shepelev
43 mins
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| agree |
Anzhelika Kuznetsova
1 hr
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United States
EN>RU corporate,business,legal,finance
Native in: Russian
Works in: English to Russian, Russian to English
What for?
| Thank you, Tatiana! |
United States
Neuropsychiatrist(MD) German(MA)
Native in: English (Variant: US)
Works in: German to English, Russian to English, Swedish to English
where did that come from all of the sudden?
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Note added at 42 mins (2015-10-29 21:05:17 GMT)
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To include the element of great surprise you could say What the hell?
| Thanks for that, Donald, perfect translation, but we only have like two seconds for the phrase as Vladimir assumed |
| "what the hell?" is unexpectedly good as the person is planning to kill his opponent, so there's the quite a devil connotation in his simple question |
| neutral |
Vladimir Zakharov
: Assuming it's from a screenplay, it would be fairly hard to fit this phrase in the same time frame
7 mins
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Really? Why?
| agree |
Denis Shepelev
2 mins
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| agree |
Evgeny Artemov (X)
: "What the hell" as Donald suggested, would go perfectly with either of Reaaly or Why.
24 mins
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Top quality, reliability
Native in: Russian
Works in: English to Russian, Russian to English, French to Russian, and 6 more.
Like hell he will
| Спасибо, Павел:) товарищ удивлен и слегка встревожен репликой собеседника |
Reference comments
Kyrgyzstan
Education, Legal, Technical & Medical
Native in: Uzbek (Variants: Samarkand-Bukhara, Khorezm, Tashkent, Ferghana valley) 
, Kirghiz
Works in: English to Uzbek, English to Kirghiz, English to Kazakh, and 26 more.
where did you dream that up?/Whatever gave you that idea?
where did you dream that up?/Whatever gave you that idea?
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Note added at 10 hrs (2015-10-30 06:54:55 GMT)
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можно добавить from all of the sudden?
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Note added at 10 hrs (2015-10-30 06:55:30 GMT)
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также как перевел Donald Jacobson
| Спасибо, коллега, dreamed that up интересно |
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