duurde het grootst
English translation: good
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| 21:13 Jan 9, 2002 |
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|  Selected response from: Marijke Mayer Netherlands Local time: 16:04 | ||||||
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4 mins confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1most probably Explanation: We think that it is most probably that the recession will last only 6 months. HTH, Serge L. experience |
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10 mins confidence:
good Explanation: Elizabeth, The 'het grootst' (superlative) refers to the verb 'achten'. But in english you cannot use the superlative here, unless you completely change the sentence. We feel that there is a very good possibility that the recession only lasted for the duration of two quarters. Marijke |
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18 mins confidence:
the most likely hypothesis is... Explanation: The most likely hypothesis, in our opinion, is that the recession will last no longer than two quarters. *Duurde* and *het grootst* do not belong together in fact. *Het grootst* refers to *We achten de mogelijkheid*, which means *in our opinion, the most likely thing to happen is...* -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2002-01-09 21:33:18 (GMT) -------------------------------------------------- There\'s also a mistake in the source text: \'heropleving is wrong\'. It is either \'herleving\' or \'opleving\'. I am specialized in financial translations Experience |
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22 mins confidence:
we estimate the chance of the recession lasting for only two quarters is most likely Explanation: With due apologies for violating the rule of having to offer a translation in the header, my guess is the structure of the sentence above is not ransparent to you. 'duurde het grootst' is *not* one phrase. 'de kans dat de recessie twee maanden duurt wordt het grootst geacht' (a variant of your text), and lo and behold, it means the assessment that the recession lasted two month is *most likely*. |
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