Mar 23, 2017 04:40
7 yrs ago
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French term
United States
Legal / Contracts / Business / Technical
Native in: English (Variant: US) 
Works in: French to English
avoir le goût de [in this context]
French to English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
Theater
This phrase appears in a Québécois play that I am translating into American English. The play is about a couple who lost their children a long time ago, and the husband is reminiscing. I understand more or less what it means but I don't really understand how it fits into this sentence. I would appreciate any suggestions.
Context:
Les enfants y quémandaient des histoires de jujubes colorés en forme d’ours qui devenaient vivants pis qui partaient chercher leur vraie famille parmi les ours polaires dans l’Arctique Sinon ça s’inventait tout seul des safaris dans des buissons que t’avais plantés
Le nez dehors tout le temps pour ***avoir le goût de*** sentir de loin les bonnes tartes pis la bonne soupe pis ***avoir le goût de rentrer***
Context:
Les enfants y quémandaient des histoires de jujubes colorés en forme d’ours qui devenaient vivants pis qui partaient chercher leur vraie famille parmi les ours polaires dans l’Arctique Sinon ça s’inventait tout seul des safaris dans des buissons que t’avais plantés
Le nez dehors tout le temps pour ***avoir le goût de*** sentir de loin les bonnes tartes pis la bonne soupe pis ***avoir le goût de rentrer***
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 +5 | enjoy + feel like |
Paolo Dagonnier
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| 3 | to enjoy |
Ana Vozone
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Proposed translations
+5
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Paolo Dagonnier
Belgium
Belgium
Native in French
Specializes in field
Belgium
Marketing, Tourism & Cinema
Native in: French (Variants: Canadian, Belgian, Standard-France)
Works in: English to French, Italian to French, French to English, and 2 more.
Related KudoZ points
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4
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enjoy + feel like
I agree with Ana: the first "avoir le goût" means 'enjoy' but the second one means more "to feel like doing something". So I would suggest smth along the lines of:
(...) to enjoy smelling (...) and then go home when he felt like it.
(...) to enjoy smelling (...) and then go home when he felt like it.
Note from asker:
| Thank you Paolo!! This was what I finally came up with but I just wasn't sure if it felt right. So the confirmation of that is great. Unfortunately it is important in this play to try and preserve the repetition of the phrase, but if I find I absolutely can't do that, I will use two different meanings. |
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Tony M
: Spot on! 2 different solutions works really well here. Mind you 'feel like' could also work in the first instance — and it's a pretty close fit for 'avoir le goût de...'
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Thanks Tony!
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| agree |
Chakib Roula
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Thank you Chakib!
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| agree |
B D Finch
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Thank you
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| agree |
Naomi Long
6 days
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| agree |
Margaret Field
: yes to both, not both the same
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
4 hrs
Ana Vozone
Will do!
Native in: Portuguese (Variant: European/Portugal)
Works in: English to Portuguese, French to Portuguese, German to Portuguese, and 1 more.
to enjoy
I think it means simply "to enjoy", "to have pleasure in".
https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/avoir_le_goût
http://www.linguee.fr/francais-anglais/traduction/avoir le g...
https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/avoir_le_goût
http://www.linguee.fr/francais-anglais/traduction/avoir le g...
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