French term
United States
Your words in. Your words out.
Native in: English (Variants: British, UK, US, Canadian)
Works in: French to English
passé proche
| 1 +3 | recent past - recent memory - recent events - no so distant past - come up a little short - |
JohnMcDove
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Non-PRO (3): Nikki Scott-Despaigne, philgoddard, mchd
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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.
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Proposed translations
recent past - recent memory - recent events - no so distant past - come up a little short -
But at any rate, take it in the spirit of help, and help us to help you.
There are Pro questions and Non-Pro questions.
Then there are the Pro-clairvoyant questions and the non-Pro-fortune-teller questions.
My apologies if that sounds slightly sarcastic, but I believe it is factual.
I would suggest you make up a sentence (totally different from your confidential one, but with similar structure and possibly giving the same parsing characteristics), which will enable the proZ.comlleagues to have a chance in hell (or in Heaven) to give you a meaningful answer that will no doubt help you.
Otherwise, the comments in the "discussion" area are there, and these should assist you anyhow.
I doubt your context may include something like "dodge the bullet" by little, i.e., the idea of a "near miss", but hey, that could also be a possibility.
My answer is a little bit of a "shotgun" answer, going all over the place, but I hope it gives you some idea to proceed.
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Odette Grille (X)
: recent past seems perfect to me (not so distant, t missing on "not")
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Merci bien, Odette! :-) (Ooops!, you're right!)
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Tony M
: Depending on just how it is being used, quite possibly even just "recently"
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Right, "recently" might do. Thank you very much, Tony. :-)
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AllegroTrans
: several good shots at clairvoyancy...
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Ha-ha. Thank you, Allegro. (Give me a couple hundred years of practice and Nostradamus will look like an innocent child... ;-)
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Discussion
It's in most Fr-En dictionaries. Here's Larousse:
proche [prɔʃ]
adjectif
[avoisinant] nearby
le bureau est tout proche the office is close at hand OU very near
le village le plus proche est Pigny Pigny's the nearest village
[dans l'avenir] near, imminent
[dans le passé] in the recent past
dans un avenir proche in the near future
le dénouement est proche the end is in sight
Noël est proche we're getting close to Christmas
la fin du monde est proche the end of the world is nigh
[cousin, parent] close
adresse de votre plus proche parent address of your next of kin
[intime] close
l'un des proches conseillers du président one of the president's trusted OU close advisors
[semblable] similar