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Nice to meet you

French translation: Enchanté(e) de faire votre connaissance

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English term or phrase:Nice to meet you
French translation:Enchanté(e) de faire votre connaissance
Entered by: NancyLynn

18:45 Jul 26, 2004
English to French translations [Non-PRO]
Linguistics / greetings
English term or phrase: Nice to meet you
I am about to meet some frech people at work. What are the formal and informal registers for this experssion?
Many thanks in advance.
Sandy T
United States
Local time: 05:19
Enchanté (more formal)
Explanation:
Ça me fait plaisir (short for ça me fait plaisir de faire votre connaissance) long form- very formal; short form- perfect, nice to meet you.

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Note added at 3 mins (2004-07-26 18:49:34 GMT)
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Enchantée if you are female, but it sounds the same
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NancyLynn
Canada
Local time: 05:19
Grading comment
Thank you all very much.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +9Enchanté (more formal)
NancyLynn
4 +7enchanté de faire votre connaissance
Michel A.
3 +1- not for grading -
Genestelle
4enchanté de faire votre connaissance
yacine
4enchanté de vous rencontrer
Terry Gwenn


  

Answers


3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +9
nice to meet you
Enchanté (more formal)


Explanation:
Ça me fait plaisir (short for ça me fait plaisir de faire votre connaissance) long form- very formal; short form- perfect, nice to meet you.

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Note added at 3 mins (2004-07-26 18:49:34 GMT)
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Enchantée if you are female, but it sounds the same

NancyLynn
Canada
Local time: 05:19
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
Grading comment
Thank you all very much.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Juan Jacob: Oui, enchanté veux dire, bien entendu, "de faire votre connaissance".
4 mins
  -> exact ! merci Jean-Jacques ;-DD
agree  TesCor -
8 mins
  -> merci Teresa
agree  Genestelle: tout-à-fait correct pour traduire nice to meet you
12 mins
  -> Merci Jean-Pierre !
agree  Sophie Raimondo
16 mins
  -> Merci Sophieanne !
agree  Graham macLachlan
1 hr
agree  Catherine Lenoir
1 hr
agree  verbis
7 hrs
agree  Calou
14 hrs
agree  Nanny Wintjens
1 day 4 hrs
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +7
nice to meet you
enchanté de faire votre connaissance


Explanation:
ou enchanté (formal)

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Note added at 4 mins (2004-07-26 18:50:27 GMT)
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Just \'bonjour\' will do - less formal
\'Salut\' is even less formal


Michel A.
Local time: 05:19
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 25

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  GILLES MEUNIER
3 mins
  -> Merci
agree  Juan Jacob: Bien sûr.
4 mins
  -> Merci
agree  Red Cat Studios
53 mins
  -> Merci Dan
agree  Catherine Lenoir
1 hr
  -> Merci Catherine
agree  Guereau: Eviter "Salut" la 1re fois, mais "enchanté (de faire votre connaissance) convient parfaitement)
2 hrs
  -> Of course!!! Cheers
agree  verbis
7 hrs
  -> Merci
agree  jemo
11 hrs
  -> Merci
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20 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
nice to meet you
- not for grading -


Explanation:
The most popular and informal way to great people is I think:
ça va? (pronounce sava = how are you? = ¿que tal?)
and the answer is:
ça va.
French is easy, isn't it?


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Note added at 27 mins (2004-07-26 19:13:50 GMT)
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You wrote frech people instead of French. A typo I guess. For your info frech in German means insolent, cheeky...
Don\'t worry, sometimes we are :-))

Genestelle
Local time: 11:19
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Michel A.: yes but quite informal
1 hr
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46 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
nice to meet you
enchanté de faire votre connaissance


Explanation:
you are saying you are happy to know them

yacine
Local time: 11:19
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in FrenchFrench
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
nice to meet you
enchanté de vous rencontrer


Explanation:
enchanté de vous rencontrer

Terry Gwenn
United States
Local time: 02:19
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in VietnameseVietnamese, Native in FrenchFrench
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