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Russian to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical: Pharmaceuticals | | Russian term or phrase: Заменить на | Please help me determine what the author intended. My confusion is justified according to this grammarian's analysis: http://langs.ru/change-vs-change/
The meaning, however, is what is important. The issue is the choice of words in a Patient information sheet. The recommendation made as a result of the ethical review was to заменить по тексту термин «рак» на термин «опухоль».
Proper Russian, as I understand, calls for instrumental case, which would make everything perfectly clear. Please clarify what is intended here.
Thank you. |
|   Judith HehirKudoZ activityQuestions: 257 (none open) ( 9 closed without grading) Answers: 938
United States
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| | Replace рак with опухоль | Explanation:
Do not make the mistake of equating 'заменить' with 'substitute'. It's a false friend.
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Note added at 50 mins (2011-10-21 05:05:48 GMT)
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Заменить А на Б means to replace A with B, or to substitute B FOR A. |
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Mikhail Kropotov
Russian Federation
Local time: 11:10
| Grading comment Thank you, everyone, for ensuring that I didn't reverse these.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer |
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49 mins confidence:  peer agreement (net): +8 Replace рак with опухоль
Explanation:
Do not make the mistake of equating 'заменить' with 'substitute'. It's a false friend.
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Note added at 50 mins (2011-10-21 05:05:48 GMT)
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Заменить А на Б means to replace A with B, or to substitute B FOR A.
| Mikhail Kropotov
Russian Federation
Local time: 11:10
Native speaker of:  Russian
PRO pts in category: 8
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| | Grading comment | Thank you, everyone, for ensuring that I didn't reverse these. |
| Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you very much for the clarification. I knew "substitute" was not the way to go, but I had the A and B reversed because of confusion over "na"—Thanks!
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