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15:26 Aug 1, 2011
French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Immobilier
French term or phrase: sans appret
Un batiment sans appret.


Does this mean an unprententious looking building or more literally that the building lacks a layer of primer paint.
J Nash


Summary of answers provided
5without finishes
Alan Douglas
5naked
CarollB
4unsophisticated, natural
Nadine Simone
4peu sophistiqué
Nadine Simone
3building in its natural conditionBarbara Cochran
3building without exterior wall finish
Clarissa Hull
3unostentatious
kashew
2 -1a building without endreeny


Discussion entries: 5





  

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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): -1
a building without end


Explanation:
Need more text, but as it stands, and as it's art/poetry, mabe.......

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Note added at 17 mins (2011-08-01 15:44:29 GMT)
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...that should've been MAYBE.....but also in the meaning of a building that just seems to go on & on with no end?????

reeny
Local time: 15:16
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Alan Douglas: un bâtiment sans fin ??
18 hrs
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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
unostentatious


Explanation:
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Note added at 27 minutes (2011-08-01 15:53:54 GMT)
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ordinary

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e.g. The functional and unostentatious architecture gave the direction for housing estates of the Berlin Modernism.

kashew
France
Local time: 15:16
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Alan Douglas: sobre, simple ??
17 hrs
  -> Who knows?
agree  Petitavoine: sans apprêt, un peu vieilli, = très simple, plain, straightforward, unaffected, ... pas sophistiqué
19 hrs
  -> Thanks ;-)
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
naked


Explanation:
If it is a poetry term and referring to anon pretty architectural finished building.

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Note added at 2 hrs (2011-08-01 17:42:26 GMT)
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The benefit of this word would mean both: not ostentatious and without paint.

CarollB
Local time: 08:16
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Verginia Ophof: from "unprimed" as in a canvas
1 hr
  -> Sure!
disagree  Alan Douglas: Building construction, not poetry!
16 hrs
  -> It lacks context anyway!
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
sans apprêt
building without exterior wall finish


Explanation:
Technically speaking and in real estate, but not in poetry. Difficult to say without more context...

Clarissa Hull
Switzerland
Local time: 15:16
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Alan Douglas: Where does it say exterior ?
14 hrs
  -> nowhere, but I don't think the interior is meant with this particular comment.
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18 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
without finishes


Explanation:
See any standard bi and mono-lingual dictionary for apprête.

Alan Douglas
France
Local time: 15:16
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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1 day24 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
building in its natural condition


Explanation:
HTH

Barbara Cochran
Local time: 09:16
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
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1 day15 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
peu sophistiqué


Explanation:
unaffected or unpretentious

Nadine Simone
Australia
Local time: 23:16
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Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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6 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
unsophisticated, natural


Explanation:
this would be correct if it is about someone's character

Nadine Simone
Australia
Local time: 23:16
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Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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