Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

sans avoir les bonnes entrées en matière

English translation:

has trouble getting to grips with the subject

Added to glossary by Catharine Cellier-Smart
Feb 6, 2010 11:44
14 yrs ago
French term

avoir les bonnes entrées en matière

French to English Other Idioms / Maxims / Sayings school report
En mathématiques, X fait preuve de rigueur et d'organisation sans toutefois avoir les bonnes entrées en matière.

TIA
Change log

Feb 8, 2010 17:06: Yolanda Broad changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"

Feb 14, 2010 14:56: Maria Constant (X) Created KOG entry

Feb 27, 2010 13:56: Catharine Cellier-Smart changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/111686">Maria Constant (X)'s</a> old entry - "avoir les bonnes entrées en matière"" to ""has trouble getting to grips with the subject""

Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

PRO (3): Catharine Cellier-Smart, Evans (X), Yolanda Broad

When entering new questions, KudoZ askers are given an opportunity* to classify the difficulty of their questions as 'easy' or 'pro'. If you feel a question marked 'easy' should actually be marked 'pro', and if you have earned more than 20 KudoZ points, you can click the "Vote PRO" button to recommend that change.

How to tell the difference between "easy" and "pro" questions:

An easy question is one that any bilingual person would be able to answer correctly. (Or in the case of monolingual questions, an easy question is one that any native speaker of the language would be able to answer correctly.)

A pro question is anything else... in other words, any question that requires knowledge or skills that are specialized (even slightly).

Another way to think of the difficulty levels is this: an easy question is one that deals with everyday conversation. A pro question is anything else.

When deciding between easy and pro, err on the side of pro. Most questions will be pro.

* Note: non-member askers are not given the option of entering 'pro' questions; the only way for their questions to be classified as 'pro' is for a ProZ.com member or members to re-classify it.

Proposed translations

+2
2 hrs
French term (edited): sans avoir les bonnes entrées en matière
Selected

has trouble getting to grips with the subject

The student's reasoning as a whole is good, but he has trouble getting a grip of the initial reasoning.
Peer comment(s):

agree Evans (X)
1 day 1 hr
thank you Gilla
agree Béatrice Cady
4 days
thank you Beatrice
Something went wrong...
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks Catharine."
+1
1 hr

having the proper introductions

Hope this helps
Peer comment(s):

agree chaplin
40 mins
Something went wrong...
2 hrs

without the right introductions

another way of saying it
Something went wrong...
3 hrs

showing a complete proof right from first principles

or, without "showing all steps from an appropriate set of assumptions"
Peer comment(s):

neutral Catharine Cellier-Smart : doesn't make any sense
1 day 7 hrs
It does if you have any education in mathematics.
Something went wrong...
Term search
  • All of ProZ.com
  • Term search
  • Jobs
  • Forums
  • Multiple search