attendu

English translation: potential

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French term or phrase:	attendu
English translation:	potential
Entered by:	Enza Longo

17:10 Dec 22, 2003

French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Telecom(munications) / Telecom

French term or phrase: attendu

Lobjectif de ce document est de préciser les différents modes de représentation du client attendu dans XXX(name of company).

"expected" doesn't quite sound right to my ears here.

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potential client

Explanation:
is what you could say instead

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Emérentienne
France
Local time: 05:07

Grading comment

Thanks a million Cecile !
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potential client

Emérentienne

expected

William Stein

anticipated customers

Tony M

Discussion entries: 1

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potential client

Explanation:
is what you could say instead

Emérentienne
France
Local time: 05:07
Native speaker of: French

Grading comment

Thanks a million Cecile !

3 mins confidence:

expected

Explanation:
But are you sure "attendu" is in the masculine singular? In that case, it would have to mean: the client who is expected, which seems kind of strange.

William Stein
Costa Rica
Local time: 21:07
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 16

34 mins confidence:

anticipated customers

Explanation:
POersoanlyl, i think this is one of those situations where French uses le + singular to express what we would more usually do in English as a plural with no article.

Surely we are talking about modelling the types of customers that may be expected? But I prefer anticipated.

Also, given that French often uses 'past participle' where we would expect 'à + infinitive' [in this case, attendu instead of à attendre], you might feel justified in using the passive in English: customers to be anticipated (though I feel this is unnecessariyl clumsy here)
When talking about mobile phones and other similar 'retail' services, I do feel that 'customers' usually works better than 'clients'

Tony M
France
Local time: 05:07
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 298

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