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French: Comtois, rends-toi, nenni ma foi !

English translation: Comtois, surrender! Not on your life!







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French term or phrase:Comtois, rends-toi, nenni ma foi !
English translation:Comtois, surrender! Not on your life!
Entered by:Gary Key
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Social Sciences - Anthropology / From tourist information about Franche-Comté
French term or phrase: Comtois, rends-toi, nenni ma foi !
No more context to offer, but it's a well-known phrase in Franche-Comté dialect which natives of the region will be very familiar with.

A basic translation would suffice; an equivalent in Brit-Eng or Am-Eng dialect would be fine, too.
Gary Key
United Kingdom
Comtois, surrender! Not on your life!
Explanation:
According to the reference below, "nenni" is "no". Since "se rendre" is "surrender", the above seems like a pretty reasonable attempt at a translation. Note that, in many of the Google references I found, the punctuation was "Comtois, rends-toi ! Nenni ma foi !"
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Richard Benham
France
Note from asker to answerer
Thanks, this'll do !
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3like the New Hampshire motto: Live free or die
Mireille K
2 +1Comtois, surrender! Not on your life!
Richard Benham


  


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Comtois, surrender! Not on your life!

Explanation:
According to the reference below, "nenni" is "no". Since "se rendre" is "surrender", the above seems like a pretty reasonable attempt at a translation. Note that, in many of the Google references I found, the punctuation was "Comtois, rends-toi ! Nenni ma foi !"


    Reference: http://www.lepetitfute.com/tourisme_en_france/php3/decouvrir...
Richard Benham
France
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Note from asker to answerer
Thanks, this'll do !

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like the New Hampshire motto: Live free or die

Explanation:
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Note added at 5 hrs 6 mins (2006-01-08 20:08:22 GMT)
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"Live free or die, death is not the worse of evils."(general John Stark of New Hampshire, the American revolution.)

Mireille K
United States
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in FrenchFrench
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Asker: Thanks for your help !

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