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Arabic translation: بصورة لا تقل عن


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English term or phrase:just as ... as ...
Arabic translation:بصورة لا تقل عن
Entered by: ArabInk
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20:39 Sep 7, 2004
English to Arabic translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Linguistics
English term or phrase: just as ... as ...
"A well-conducted mail survey can be just as effective and meaningful as other more resource-intensive surveys."

I can never come up with natural sounding Arabic for this kind of construction. I'm sure it's come up before but I didn't find anything in the archives. How about something like "النوع الاول والنوع الثاني على نمط واحد بالنسبة الى..."؟
ArabInk
Local time: 14:36
بصورة لا تقل عن
Explanation:
As you noted, there are many different ways of putting this into Arabic. You can say يمكن أن يكون على نفس الدرجة ... مثل or يمكن أن يكون مؤثراًً ... بصورة لا تقل عن or مثل الاستبيان في ... كمثل ما عداه من
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Doaa El Hefnawy
Local time: 21:36
Grading comment
Thanks, I like this one stylistically.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +7بصورة لا تقل عن
Doaa El Hefnawy
4 +4بنفس ...
Nesrin
4 +2الى درجة مساوية لـjenan
4 +1بدرجة مماثلة
sarsam


  

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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +7
بصورة لا تقل عن


Explanation:
As you noted, there are many different ways of putting this into Arabic. You can say يمكن أن يكون على نفس الدرجة ... مثل or يمكن أن يكون مؤثراًً ... بصورة لا تقل عن or مثل الاستبيان في ... كمثل ما عداه من

Doaa El Hefnawy
Local time: 21:36
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks, I like this one stylistically.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Nesrin
14 mins
  -> Thanks, Nesrin

agree  jenan
23 mins
  -> Thanks, Jenan

agree  Saleh Ayyub
10 hrs
  -> Thanks, Saleh

agree  htms
12 hrs
  -> Thanks, htms

agree  umsarah
15 hrs
  -> Thanks, Umsarah

agree  Abdelazim Abdelazim
1 day14 hrs
  -> Thanks, Abdelazim

agree  AhmedAMS
11 days
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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
بنفس ...


Explanation:
in addition to the alternatives suggested by Doaa above, you can say:
بنفس فعالية وأهمية ...

Nesrin
Local time: 20:36
Works in field
Native speaker of: Arabic
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  jenan
11 mins

agree  sithanem
2 hrs

agree  ena
5 hrs

agree  Abdelazim Abdelazim
1 day14 hrs
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42 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
الى درجة مساوية لـ


Explanation:
You can also say:

... أن يكون فعالا الى درجة مساوية للأنواع الاخرى من...

or

يمكن له ان يكون فعالا تماما كالانواع الاخرى...

As Doaa said, there are many ways to say it in Arabic, and they all sound natural

jenan
Local time: 22:36
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Randa F: agree to second answer.. [just as: تماماً كـ , just as effective as فعالاً تماماً كـ .. كذا]
20 mins
  -> thanks randa

agree  Abdelazim Abdelazim
1 day13 hrs
  -> thank you Abdelazim
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
بدرجة مماثلة


Explanation:
شكرا

sarsam
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Abdelazim Abdelazim
1 day12 hrs
  -> Thank you
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