gap year

French translation: année de congé, sabbatique

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English term or phrase:	gap year
French translation:	année de congé, sabbatique
Entered by:	GILLES MEUNIER

08:08 Jul 7, 2003

English to French translations [PRO]
Education / Pedagogy / Education

English term or phrase: gap year

general context - meaning when someone either takes a year off (usually to travel) between school and university, or between university and starting work.

Many thanks for any suggestions

Rachel Mackay KudoZ activity Questions: 86 (2 open) Answers: 160
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année de congé, sabbatique

Explanation:
Subject Field(s)
– Sociology of Human Relations
Subject Field(s)
– Sociologie des relations humaines

year out Source CORRECT,
NOUN

gap year Source CORRECT,
NOUN

année de congé Source
PROPOSAL, MASC

DEF – A period of one
academic year taken as a
break from formal education
by a student between leaving
school and taking up a place
at college or university. Source

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Note added at 2003-07-07 08:12:01 (GMT)
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SOCIÉTÉ. juin 2003. Vous avez droit à une année sabbatique. ... Une année
sabbatique Réfléchissez bien avant de faire (à nouveau) le pas! ...
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GILLES MEUNIER
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Local time: 12:27

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année de congé, sabbatique

GILLES MEUNIER

define it

Bourth (X)

année extraprofessionnelle/extracuriculaire

smartJIT

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année de congé, sabbatique

GILLES MEUNIER
France
Local time: 12:27
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 320

1 hr confidence:

define it

Explanation:
I think you will agree that a "gap year" is not the same as a "year's sabbatical" or a "year off" in that these terms can apply at any point in one's life, and particularly career, whereas a "gap year" (a concept unheard of in France) is, or tends to be, a year's break between the end of schooling and the start of university.

The word didn't exist at the time, but I'm not sure that today one would qualify as "gap year" the year I took off between my Bachelors and my Masters to come to France and Germany and brush up my languages. Not would it be a "sabbatical", other than in a very extended sense.

Give it 15 years and the French will adopt the practice and find a word for it.

Bourth (X)
Local time: 12:27
Native speaker of:

English

7 hrs confidence:

année extraprofessionnelle/extracuriculaire

Explanation:
my two cents for what it's worth

smartJIT
France
Local time: 12:27
Native speaker of:

French

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