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French translation: grande ville /métropole & ville de taille moyenne


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English term or phrase:city & town
French translation:grande ville /métropole & ville de taille moyenne
Entered by: briski
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08:37 Feb 5, 2007
English to French translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. / test d'évaluation poste de travail
English term or phrase: city & town
je ne vois pas vraiment la différence entre ces deux termes..comment les traduire en français.

Ce sont les questions finales du test d'évaluation et c'est une suite de question sur la manière dont se voit la personne dans cinq ans.
...liste de questions...
"where would you like to live?" province, ***city,town***, rural

cité, ville, petite ville...???
merci à tous!
briski
Italy
Local time: 07:36
grande ville / ville de taille moyenne
Explanation:
Grande ville : Paris, Lyon, etc.

Par opposition aux "villes de moyenne importance" qui peuvent se trouver en banlieue parisienne, en périphérie d'une grande ville ou en Province.

Eysines - Gironde (Code postal - 33320)
Population active : 8 940 » Chômeurs : 1 303 » Taux de chômage : 14,6% ... Ville de moyenne importance, très agréable à vivre. (02/09/2004) ...
www.linternaute.com/ville/ville/accueil/15230/eysines.shtml - 51k -

Gagny notre ville
En 1936, la population avait doublé et comptait 13 495 habitants. ... Gagny est une ville de moyenne importance de la banlieue parisienne; elle est située à ...
leschallenges.free.fr/gagny.htm

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Ville de taille moyenne :
Bourg-En-Bresse (01000)
"Une ville de taille moyenne assez bien placée géographiquement (ski à 1h, mer pas si loin et campagne aux portes de la ville). ...
www.linternaute.com/ville/ville/temoignage/1829/bourg-en-br... -
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Valérie Madesclair
France
Local time: 07:36
Grading comment
merci beaucoup Valérie..j'ai fini par choisir métropole/ville de taille moyenne..malheureusement je ne peux pas choisir deux réponses...
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4grande ville / ville de taille moyenne
Valérie Madesclair
5ville et et une région urbaine
narasimha CSN MURTHY
3city peut etre 'ville (centre ville) et milieu urbain ?? Nnicole gelister
4 -1ville et villagejean pierre belliard
2métropole / grande ville vs. ville
Tony M


Discussion entries: 7





  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
city peut etre 'ville (centre ville) et milieu urbain ?? N


Explanation:
see above

nicole gelister
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:36
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
grande ville / ville de taille moyenne


Explanation:
Grande ville : Paris, Lyon, etc.

Par opposition aux "villes de moyenne importance" qui peuvent se trouver en banlieue parisienne, en périphérie d'une grande ville ou en Province.

Eysines - Gironde (Code postal - 33320)
Population active : 8 940 » Chômeurs : 1 303 » Taux de chômage : 14,6% ... Ville de moyenne importance, très agréable à vivre. (02/09/2004) ...
www.linternaute.com/ville/ville/accueil/15230/eysines.shtml - 51k -

Gagny notre ville
En 1936, la population avait doublé et comptait 13 495 habitants. ... Gagny est une ville de moyenne importance de la banlieue parisienne; elle est située à ...
leschallenges.free.fr/gagny.htm

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Note added at 19 mins (2007-02-05 08:56:47 GMT)
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Ville de taille moyenne :
Bourg-En-Bresse (01000)
"Une ville de taille moyenne assez bien placée géographiquement (ski à 1h, mer pas si loin et campagne aux portes de la ville). ...
www.linternaute.com/ville/ville/temoignage/1829/bourg-en-br... -

Valérie Madesclair
France
Local time: 07:36
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
merci beaucoup Valérie..j'ai fini par choisir métropole/ville de taille moyenne..malheureusement je ne peux pas choisir deux réponses...

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jonathan MacKerron: ou "grande ville /petite ville"
17 mins

agree  GILLES MEUNIER
21 mins

agree  katsy
1 hr

agree  Frederic Jacquier-Calbet
1 day9 hrs
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30 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
ville et et une région urbaine


Explanation:
In order to find the correct meaning, I saw the meaning of both the words in the English dictionary. the town is defined as a densely populated region or a small city. In order to make the difference more clearer, I have given the translation as above. I trust that this will clear your doubts,if you have any, brisky!

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Note added at 35 mins (2007-02-05 09:12:44 GMT)
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In India, there are towns which are district headquarters, but a city is a big and metropolitan like Bangalore, where I live. Around Bangalore, there are towns, which have their own municipalities.

narasimha CSN MURTHY
India
Local time: 11:06
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
city vs. town
métropole / grande ville vs. ville


Explanation:
Always difficult!

"cité" is unsuitable, as that could connote "area of social housing" (with various, usually negative associations!)

You might do worse than say simply grande ville / petite ville

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Note added at 12 mins (2007-02-05 08:50:04 GMT)
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In the UK, the distinction is an historic one, and cities can exist that are smaller than some large towns; however, in the present context (is that US or UK?), it seems clear that they are merely referring to the differning environment between life in a "big city" and in an "ordinary town".

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No 'commune' wouldn't do, as it might equally easily be a rural commune, and does not in itself suggest a built-up area, as both city and town do.

Tony M
France
Local time: 07:36
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
ville et village


Explanation:
me semble explicite town ayant ici la "résonance" de village sous entendu "vie à la campagne"...

jean pierre belliard
France
Local time: 07:36
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Tony M: But that's not the sense of the English! "town" very definitely means "everything that is NOT the country"
4 mins
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