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d'en faire bénéficier cette plate-forme

English translation: so as to enable this platform to take advantage of this / it


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French term or phrase:afin d'en faire bénéficier cette plate-forme
English translation:so as to enable this platform to take advantage of this / it
Entered by: Tony M
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08:53 Jan 23, 2012
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French term or phrase: d'en faire bénéficier cette plate-forme
Au vu de ces résultats (of an internal employee survey about the intranet), le comité intranet s'est réuni afin de prendre en compte le ressenti des intranautes et d'en faire bénéficier cette plate-forme interactive.
veratek
France
Local time: 13:32
and to enable this platform to take advantage of this / it
Explanation:
Eager to avoid falling into the obvious trap of 'bénéficier' automatically = 'benefit', and noting in particular that this is preceded by « le comité intranet s'est réuni afin de ... », I think it is very important to note the important nuance of meaning conveyed by 'faire bénéficier', and that little 'en', referring back obviously to 'ressenti'.

I'm not happy that my suggestion really stands up well to drop right into the sentence structure as it stands, but I hope it highlights some of the issues I feel are important here; I would urge you to consider the sentence as a whole and rephrase appropriately.

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Note added at 9 heures (2012-01-23 18:35:28 GMT)
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'benefit' might work if you were to use, for example, 'feedback'
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Tony M
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Local time: 13:32
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Summary of answers provided
4and to enable this platform to take advantage of this / it
Tony M
4so as to benefit this platform
Agnes Grand Fay


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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
d\\\\\\\'en faire bénéficier cette plate-forme
so as to benefit this platform


Explanation:
plate-forme électorale election platform


Example sentence(s):
  • Therefore, seeing that you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in them so as to benefit the Church.

    Reference: http://www.larousse.com/en/dictionaries/french-english/plate...
    Reference: http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/14-12.htm
Agnes Grand Fay
Local time: 13:32
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PRO pts in category: 7

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Tony M: Isn't that rather missing out the idea of the 'en', and also, the use of 'faire...'? / I'm afraid it's not at all "implied", and while avoiding literal, I do think there is an important nuance of meaning it is vital to convey.
4 hrs
  -> Thanks both to Tony and Chris."Faire" is obviously implied in my translation proposal. Very often French is more flowery than English and translating literally would not have appeared natural.
neutral  chris collister: Tony is (of course) correct. Quite an obvious piège though...
5 hrs
  -> Thanks both to Tony and Chris."Faire" is obviously implied in my translation proposal. Very often French is more flowery than English and translating literally would not have appeared natural.
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
and to enable this platform to take advantage of this / it


Explanation:
Eager to avoid falling into the obvious trap of 'bénéficier' automatically = 'benefit', and noting in particular that this is preceded by « le comité intranet s'est réuni afin de ... », I think it is very important to note the important nuance of meaning conveyed by 'faire bénéficier', and that little 'en', referring back obviously to 'ressenti'.

I'm not happy that my suggestion really stands up well to drop right into the sentence structure as it stands, but I hope it highlights some of the issues I feel are important here; I would urge you to consider the sentence as a whole and rephrase appropriately.

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Note added at 9 heures (2012-01-23 18:35:28 GMT)
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'benefit' might work if you were to use, for example, 'feedback'

Tony M
France
Local time: 13:32
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 205
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