16:10 Nov 23, 2009 

to put oneself in the mind of a searcher who is looking for a phrase that doesn't exist as such or is meaningless....
I have no idea what it means, and I suggest you either call your client and ask him what HE thinks it means, or leave it out.
Otherwise you will provide a translation that is unlikely to correspond to what this hypothetical searcher is looking for ...

15:54 Nov 23, 2009 

The translation has to do with crafts and is a list of keywords form the google keyword tool database. The term appear exactly like that , void of context . What I need to know is what people are searching for when they search for those terms ( which they obviously do - which means in the mind of the internet searchers it must have a particular reference ) and I want to know whether to these searches the term means paper flower or flower paper - or whether it means neither of the two

14:45 Nov 23, 2009 

Even if you received your keyword list without any other information (which is surely not the case), your client can give you the context.
In any case, "papier en fleur" (or "en fleurs") is meaningless unless (as in my 2nd link above) it is a play on words or some sort of artistic title.
If "floral paper" were the EN keywords or phrase, the FR phrase would be "papier floral", not "papier en fleurs".

11:22 Nov 23, 2009 

Sorry about the mistakes , I was a bit hasty in typing . The terms are papier en fleur and papier en fleurs

11:20 Nov 23, 2009 

Unfortunately this is the only context I can give. The translation is an internet keyword translation.The keywords I want to trnaslate are papierenfleur and papier en fleurs. When I search this term on Google.fr I get results pointing to paper flower making. But what I want to know is if it can also be the keyword that people would use to search for floral paper / flower paper. Thanks

08:48 Nov 19, 2009 

you must help us by providing more details: as bohy says, the phrase is meaningless as it is.
I did some googling, and found :
http://www.eveiletjeux.com/magasins/animations.aspx
"L'origami c'est facile ! Viens t'amuser avec notre équipe à métamorphoser une simple feuille de ***papier en fleur***, animal, avion ..."
If that is the context, surely you don't need to ask the question?
Or is it something like this:
http://www.maisons-conte-ardenne.org/agnes_deschamps.htm
"***Papier en fleur*** - un spectacle et son livre"
So what exactly IS your problem?

20:38 Nov 18, 2009 

"papier à fleurs" et "fleurs en papier" would be the appropriate terms for what you suggest. "papier en fleur" does not make any sense... unless we get the whole sentence !

15:40 Nov 18, 2009 

Could you provide the context of your term or at least the sentence in which it appears.