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French: gavé(e)

English translation: fed up



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French term or phrase:gavé(e)
English translation:fed up
Entered by:Adam Deutsch
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French to English translations [PRO]
Games / Video Games / Gaming / Casino / Video game voice script
French term or phrase: gavé(e)
This appears in the "How" column in a video game script indicating the speaker's mood, or how the line is to be delivered. Other examples of expressions used in this column are:

triste, en colère, ironique, surpris, inquièt, etc.
Adam Deutsch
Canada
Clarification request(s) and response
Valérie Madesclair: 11:44pm Mar 11, 2007: Pas d'accent pour la forme masculine de l'adjectif : "inquiet" (fem. inquiète)
Adam Deutsch: 11:03am Mar 20, 2007: Merci Valérie. J'ai mal copié.

fed up
Explanation:
Selected response from:

Christine Schmit
Luxembourg
Note from asker to answerer
Thanks to everyone for their very helpful suggestions. I used "fed up" because the client didn't want me to use overly vulgar English and because of the similar origins of the English and French expressions.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +6fed up
Christine Schmit
5voir explications
Céline Débiton
4pissed off
Luisa Moura Almeida
3disgusted
Catherine Johnstone
3hacked offMelzie


  

Answers

7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
fed up

Explanation:



    Reference: http://www.languagerealm.com/french/frenchslang.php?pageNum_...
Christine Schmit
Luxembourg
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in LetzeburgeschLetzeburgesch
PRO pts in category: 4
Note from asker to answerer
Thanks to everyone for their very helpful suggestions. I used "fed up" because the client didn't want me to use overly vulgar English and because of the similar origins of the English and French expressions.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree Catherine Johnstone: would seem the gist of it in ok language level here
39 mins
  -> thanks

agree kironne
59 mins
  -> thanks

agree juliebarba: This is totally the meaning, also it's good because it corresponds to the other meanings of gavé
1 hr
  -> thanks

agree Odette Grille
2 hrs
  -> thanks

agree Catherine CHAUVIN: yes, pretty right. In the sense of being tired of it. Enough is enough ! :-)
4 hrs
  -> thanks

agree Vicky Papaprodromou
11 hrs
  -> thanks
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
voir explications

Explanation:
"gaver quelqu'un" = slang for "to give sb a real pain"
"gavé" = "to be fed up with" (but if you can find slang synonym, it'd be better 'coz originally, that's slang French)

Céline Débiton
France
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
pissed off

Explanation:
:)

Luisa Moura Almeida
Belgium
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese, Native in DutchDutch

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral Catherine Johnstone: too much for a set of moods would say
34 mins
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47 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
hacked off

Explanation:
a lighter alternative to pissed off, yet with a little more 'punch' ;-) (I feel) than fed up, which was my first reaction.

Melzie
France
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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48 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
disgusted

Explanation:
another idea

Catherine Johnstone
France
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in EnglishEnglish
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