il s\\\\\\\'agit d\\\\\\\'un prix rédhibitoire, néanmoins nous ferons un effort

English translation: it's about an exhorbitant price, nevertheless we'll make an effort

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French term or phrase:	il s'agit d'un prix rédhibitoire, néanmoins nous ferons un effort
English translation:	it's about an exhorbitant price, nevertheless we'll make an effort
Entered by:	Mats Wiman

20:28 Oct 25, 2001

French to English translations [Non-PRO]

French term or phrase: il s\\\\\\\'agit d\\\\\\\'un prix rédhibitoire, néanmoins nous ferons un effort

Nous sommes allés chez le libraire et y avons vu le livre qui nous intéressait. En revanche, le prix est rédhibitoire mais nous fairons un effort.

RUA

it's about an exhorbitant price, nevertheless we'll make an effort

Explanation:
My Norstedts fra>sve dictionary explains rédhibitoire as: 'devastating, grave, very serious' which in this context ought to mean 'exhorbitant'

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Mats Wiman
Sweden
Local time: 10:47

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it's about an exhorbitant price, nevertheless we'll make an effort

Mats Wiman

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an exorbitant price (continued ...)

Abu Amaal (X)

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it's about an exhorbitant price, nevertheless we'll make an effort

Explanation:
My Norstedts fra>sve dictionary explains rédhibitoire as: 'devastating, grave, very serious' which in this context ought to mean 'exhorbitant'

Norstedts+MW

Mats Wiman
Sweden
Local time: 10:47
Native speaker of:

Swedish
PRO pts in pair: 133

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an exorbitant price (continued ...)

Explanation:
un prix rédhibitoire
and
an exorbitant price
are standard phrases with similar but not identical meanings (but since they have pretty much the same stock function I would use one for the other).

rédhibitoire means constituting some sort of major obstacle (more than we can afford, say).
exorbitant has the more direct meaning of excessive (out of orbit one might say).

I'm not sure if you want your quoted phrase or the sample context translated, but for the phrase as posted I would say:

It's an exorbitant price, but still we'll see what we can do.

(I'm not thrilled by my ending, frankly, but at the moment it's the one I incline to.)

Abu Amaal (X)
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 51

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