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quoi que ce soit

English translation: anything

23:32 Feb 8, 2012
French to English translations [Non-PRO]
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
French term or phrase: quoi que ce soit
A quoi je rêvais ? Je suis conne. Je n'aurais pas du m'attendre a quoi que ce soit venant de lui.

What was I thinking? I'm an idiot. I shouldn't have expected.... [I'm lost] .... from him/her.
Jana Cole
United States
Local time: 02:54
English translation:anything
Explanation:

Your ST should have been expanded -- or been parsed differently, as some might say -- to include "quoi que" (I took the liberty to add it in the source term field). "Quoi que ce soit" is a locution that means "anything." Thus, the sentence would read, "I shouldn't have expected anything from him/her."
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Hal D'Arpini
Local time: 11:54
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Summary of answers provided
5 +6anything
Hal D'Arpini
4 +3anything at all
Howard Sugar


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22 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +6
anything


Explanation:

Your ST should have been expanded -- or been parsed differently, as some might say -- to include "quoi que" (I took the liberty to add it in the source term field). "Quoi que ce soit" is a locution that means "anything." Thus, the sentence would read, "I shouldn't have expected anything from him/her."


Hal D'Arpini
Local time: 11:54
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lara Barnett
24 mins
  -> Thanks, Lara.
agree  writeaway: even though this can be found in any Fr-En (or into any other language) dictionary, if someone feels it deserves to be in the glossary anyway, I hope the complete expression gets entered and not just the snippet asked in the question
49 mins
agree  AllegroTrans
1 hr
  -> Thanks.
agree  ACOZ (X)
6 hrs
  -> Thanks.
agree  rkillings: whatever :-)
7 hrs
  -> Hehe, thanks.
agree  Verginia Ophof
1 day 15 hrs
  -> Thank you, Verginia.
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
ce soit
anything at all


Explanation:
quoi que ce soit is usually translated as something like "whatever it may be" however in the sentence you would probably have to say something like "I don't know why I should have expected anything at all from him"

Howard Sugar
Italy
Local time: 11:54
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  AllegroTrans
15 mins
agree  Letredenoblesse
5 hrs
agree  Colin Rowe: Not to be taken out of context: "I'll agree to anything at all" ;-)
8 hrs
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