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Bus/Financial - Investment / Securities | | German term or phrase: Beteiligung | I realize there are already a lot of Kudoz questions related to "Beteiligung", but I'm still a bit stuck on how to translate the following:
"Bilanzen der GmbHs mit [ABC] Beteiligung"
[ABC] is the name of a university. This forms part of the university's annual report and is listed among the topics of the meeting of the board of governors.
A previous translation that I have been sent as a reference translates "[ABC] Beteiligungen" as "[ABC] participations".
I would have been more inclined to translate it something like "(companies) in which [ABC] has an interest".
Would "participation" be appropriate here? Or "interest"? Or any other suggestions?
British English preferred.
Thanks in advance. |
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 Wendy Streitparth
Local time: 10:41
| Grading comment Thanks, everyone. I went with Wendy's answer in the end.
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Explanation:
You're absolutely right that "Beteiligung" is one of those weasel words that can have different meanings in different (but still closely related contexts): investment, equity investment, interest, stake, investee, and so on. But never "participation" please in the sense of "equity interest", that really is a severe case of translatorese (despite what EU directives might say).
In your case, "GmbHs mit [ABC] Beteiligung" means "GmbHs, in denen [ABC] eine Beteiligung hält", which we can translate most succinctly as "GmbHs in which [ABC] is invested".
I hope this is clear...
| RobinB
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