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Les campagnes ça représente un vrai budget

English translation: Advertizing campaigns represent quite a significant budget


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French term or phrase:Les campagnes ça représente un vrai budget
English translation:Advertizing campaigns represent quite a significant budget
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03:30 Jul 10, 2011
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Bus/Financial - Advertising / Public Relations
French term or phrase: Les campagnes ça représente un vrai budget
This has to do with an advertising campaign. I'm having trouble with the construction of the first part of this sentence:

"Les campagnes ça représente un vrai budget, alors si XYZ peut t'en financer une partie, tu es forcément gagnant !"

I'm thinking that they're trying to say that campaigns are expensive...so if XYZ can pay for part of it, you're already winning...
Daniel Weston
United States
Advertizing campaigns represent quite a big budget
Explanation:
You're right, in this case "un vrai budget" definitely means that advertizing campaigns can be very costly.

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François-Xavier Torrentz
Local time: 11:48
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4 +2Advertizing campaigns represent quite a big budget
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43 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Advertizing campaigns represent quite a big budget


Explanation:
You're right, in this case "un vrai budget" definitely means that advertizing campaigns can be very costly.



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François-Xavier Torrentz
Local time: 11:48
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tony M: Though rather than the very informal 'quite a big', I'd probably go for 'a significant/substantial' etc.
51 mins
  -> Thank you Tony! I appreciate your comment. I'd hesitated about the register because of the original formulation which I found a little casual with the use of "ça" and the second person singular.
agree  Sheila Wilson: With Tony that this needs a more formal register than "quite a big", though. Note the spelling advertiSing (although you will find it spelt with a "Z", it isn't correct - the US agrees with the UK on this one).
10 hrs
  -> Thank you very much Sheila! Duly noted on the spelling.
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