autant

English translation: without necessarily

04:53 Jul 29, 2001

French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Bus/Financial

French term or phrase: autant

"...ils ont tous contribués à dynamiser ce marché sans pour autant réellement le clarifier"

How is "autant" being used here?
Anyone suggest how I could translate the entire sentence?

Berni Armstrong KudoZ activity Questions: 421 (none open) (2 without valid answers) (5 closed without grading) Answers: 550 Spain
Local time: 03:45

English translation:without necessarily

Explanation:
They all played a role in making the market more dynamic, without necessarily making it any clearer.

The Oxford-Hachette has:

sans pour autant faire: without necessarily doing

HTH (at least to get the meaning, you can probably find a more elegant solution!)

Mary

Selected response from:

Mary Worby
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:45

Grading comment

Thanks a lot. I guessed this from the sense, but had never seen "autant" used like that.
I was about to go for "However" - but your answer was far more elegant :-)

Cheers,

Berni
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

however/even though

CLS Lexi-tech

without necessarily

Mary Worby

they have all contributed to giving dynamism to this market

Albert Golub

Answers

18 mins

however/even though

Explanation:
it seems a bit pleonastic in English

without, however,

even though they did not....

regards

paola l m

CLS Lexi-tech
Local time: 21:45
Native speaker of:

Italian
PRO pts in pair: 162

22 mins

without necessarily

Mary Worby
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:45
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in pair: 484

Grading comment

Thanks a lot. I guessed this from the sense, but had never seen "autant" used like that.
I was about to go for "However" - but your answer was far more elegant :-)

Cheers,

Berni

23 mins

they have all contributed to giving dynamism to this market

Explanation:
that they have yet/nevertheless/ nonetheless been unable to clarify

just an idea

Albert Golub
Local time: 03:45
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in pair: 359

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