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Danish translation: trimme sejlene til vinden

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English term or phrase:	trim
Danish translation:	trimme sejlene til vinden
Entered by:	Poul Moller

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12:54 Mar 17, 2008

English to Danish translations [PRO]
Ships, Sailing, Maritime / sail

English term or phrase: trim

trim sails to the wind
(just the one sentence no context other than list of general travel phrases)

Susanne Kennan KudoZ activity Questions: 19 (1 open) (2 closed without grading) Answers: 48 Ireland
Local time: 19:56

trimme sejlene til vinden

Explanation:
Det hedder det - jeg har sejlet i mange år.
trimme sejlene efter vinden kan også bruges.

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Poul Moller
Denmark
Local time: 20:56

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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

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5 +1

trimme sejlene til vinden

Poul Moller

indrette sig efter forholdene

Jens Kaestel

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3 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

trimme sejlene til vinden

Explanation:
Det hedder det - jeg har sejlet i mange år.
trimme sejlene efter vinden kan også bruges.

Poul Moller
Denmark
Local time: 20:56
Native speaker of:

Danish
PRO pts in category: 8

Grading comment

thanks

19 mins confidence:

trim sails to the wind indrette sig efter forholdene

Explanation:
Det kan have to betydninger:
Hvis det er maritimt, er det at 'trimme sejlene til vinden' som Poul siger.
Men hvis det ikke er maritimt, er det et udtryk, der betyder at 'indrette sig efter forholdene'. Se Gyldendals 'store røde' ordbog EN>DA

Håber det hjælper.. :-)

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Note added at 25 mins (2008-03-17 13:19:54 GMT)
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http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr2007/papers/sierman_paper_4-1.pdf
"You can’t foresee everything, standards evolve and during the lifetime of a repository you should trim your sails to the wind."

Jens Kaestel
Australia
Local time: 06:56
Native speaker of:

Danish,

English