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Going the extra mile

Gujarati translation: અપેક્ષાઓથી પણ આગળ વધીને કંઈક કરવું

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English term or phrase:	Going the extra mile
Gujarati translation:	અપેક્ષાઓથી પણ આગળ વધીને કંઈક કરવું
Entered by:	Umang Dholabhai

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18:14 Jun 17, 2010

English to Gujarati translations [PRO]
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English term or phrase: Going the extra mile

I was wondering what could be the Gujarati equivalent for the phrase. Thanks in advance.

Umang Dholabhai KudoZ activity Questions: 12 (1 open) Answers: 50 India
Local time: 10:51

અપેક્ષાઓથી પણ આગળ વધીને કંઈક કરવું

Explanation:
This is based on the following link explaining the idiom :
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/go the extra mile

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Note added at 15 hrs (2010-06-18 10:02:54 GMT)
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As an alternative અપેક્ષાઓ can be replaced with ફરજો

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Note added at 17 hrs (2010-06-18 11:29:37 GMT)
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An idiomatic equivalent is difficult to find. I thought of "લાંબા થવું" but that as an idiom has a totally different meaning. The non-idiomatic use (eg, અહીં સુધી લાંબા થવાની જરૂર નથી) is also not appropriate here as it is to do with "distance" and cannot fit here.

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Seema Ugrankar
India
Local time: 10:51

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Thanks Seemaben :)
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Summary of answers provided

વિશેશ પ્રાપ્તિ, વધારે લાભ, વધારે મેળવવુ

madhu barbhaya

અપેક્ષાઓથી પણ આગળ વધીને કંઈક કરવું

Seema Ugrankar

Need context

Rakesh Khambhaita

Discussion entries: 2

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11 hrs confidence:

going the extra mile Need context

Explanation:
Doing more than what is being asked of you.
If someone asks you to help or assist than you do more than what they ask - another words you are being extra helpful.
To try harder to please someone or to get the job done correctly; to do more than one is required to do to reach a goal.

ETYMOLOGICAL BACKGROUND:
The term has its roots from the Bible at Matthew 5:41. You can check that in the Gujarati edition of the Bible. In that time the law allowed a Roman soldier to make a person carry his back pack for a Roman mile, or a thousand paces. That distance is about 1.48 kilometers (1620 yards). No one liked being forced to carry anything any distance for a Roman soldier. Jesus said if they were required to carry it a mile, then carry it two miles. That is how we get the phrase, "go the extra mile." It means we should go beyond what is expected of us in helping others.

OPTIONS:
If the context is discussing the above history then you may use literal translation.

However if not then for understandability, it may be better option to use the meaning rather than word for word translation unless author has made a specific request.

There are some Gujarati equivalents: For example people say હું તમને અડધી રાત્રે પણ મદદ કરીશ. or ઉભે પગે મદદ કરવા તૈયાર હોય છે

Rakesh Khambhaita
Local time: 06:21
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Gujarati

11 hrs confidence:

going the extra mile વિશેશ પ્રાપ્તિ, વધારે લાભ, વધારે મેળવવુ

Explanation:
Actually there seems to be no exact word for this phrase but it may be interpreted according to context it is used in.

Example sentence(s):

you get extra mile for your knowledge of English while applying for .........

madhu barbhaya
India
Local time: 10:51
Native speaker of:

Gujarati

15 hrs confidence:

going the extra mile

અપેક્ષાઓથી પણ આગળ વધીને કંઈક કરવું

અપેક્ષાઓથી પણ આગળ વધીને કંઈક કરવું એ અમારી સંસ્થા/અમારા સંગઠનનું ધોરણ સમાન છે (as an alternative અપેક્ષાઓ can b

Seema Ugrankar
India
Local time: 10:51
Native speaker of:

Gujarati,

Hindi
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Thanks Seemaben :)

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Asker: Can you think of an idiomatic equivalent?

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Gujarati translation: અપેક્ષાઓથી પણ આગળ વધીને કંઈક કરવું

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