French term
Accurate, natural and very hard-working
Native in: English 
, Spanish
Works in: Spanish to English, English to Spanish, French to English, and 3 more.
Il est fort à parier
The full sentence is:
"***Il est fort à parier*** que l’éclairage à technologie LED prévaudra sur toutes les autres technologies dans les 5 à 10 ans qui viennent."
My translation so far is the following, but I'm not too happy with it:
"It is a sure bet that lighting with LED technology will prevail over all the other technologies in the next 5 to 10 years."
Any ideas will be welcome.
TIA!
| 4 +5 | It is more than likely |
polyglot45
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| 4 | In all likelihood |
Sandra & Kenneth Grossman
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| 4 | the odds are that... |
Euqinimod (X)
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| 4 | One/you can count on ... |
MatthewLaSon
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Proposed translations
Native in: English , French
Works in: English to French, French to English, German to French, and 4 more.
It is more than likely
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Note added at 2 mins (2009-04-26 11:08:10 GMT)
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The odds are that
| Thanks a million, polyglot45! This fits in perfectly in the text. |
| agree |
Marta Scott
1 min
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| agree |
Andrew Mason
: Looks good - could also use 'It is highly likely'
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| agree |
Celine Reau
1 hr
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chris collister
: Not wrong by any means, but why not stick with the original: "it's a good bet that....", or depending on register, "a pretty good bet..."
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precisely because "sure/good bet" is not exactly the same register as the more formal French, at least to my ear
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| agree |
Shankaran Viswanathan
: yes
3 hrs
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B D Finch
11 hrs
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Israel
Quality, Reliability, Experience.
Native in: English , Romanian
Works in: French to English, Hebrew to English, Romanian to English, and 3 more.
In all likelihood
| Many thanks, Sangro! |
the odds are that...
| Many thanks, Euqinimod! |
One/you can count on ...
In other words, one can count on this happening (very likely).
Also, with "count on", you don't need to have any adverbial modifier, as the "fort" comes through nicely in "count on."
In French, they also say "il y a fort à parier que..."
I hope this helps.
| Many thanks, Matthew! |
Discussion
Do you really think that's the major point here? Or is it the translation per se? In which category would you have put this question given the translation topic?