Jul 17, 2009 20:01
14 yrs ago
French term

concurrent à (deux, quatre, six, huit, mille) pattes

French to English Science Botany mediterranean gardening book
I can only find patte to mean foot or rag, and im not sure which to take as the stem of this phrase.

It occurs in the following sentence:
Enfin, rappelez-vous que potager et verger sont appréciés des concurrents à deux, quatre, six, huit ou mille pattes.
Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

Non-PRO (2): SJLD, Rachel Fell

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Proposed translations

+1
32 mins
Selected

(two-, four-, six-, eight-)2-, 4-, 6-, 8-legged rival species/animals, let alone centipedes

A suggestion.
Peer comment(s):

agree Mark Bossanyi : millipedes, although if I'm going to be pedantic, they don't really have 1000 legs.
20 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks very much, i was really struggling with this phrase, and yours seems to fit into the text the best."
+2
5 mins

competitors with 2, 4, six, 8 or one-hundred legs

I don't know how you will translate but 'pattes' are legs here and these refer to:
birds (humans?): 2 legs
mammals: 4 legs
insects: 6 legs
spiders: 8 legs
centipedes: 100 legs in English and 1000 in French...
Peer comment(s):

agree Lionel_M (X) : Exactement: "concurrent" = competitor
2 hrs
Merci, Lionel!
agree George C.
9 hrs
Merci, Solarstone!
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+5
1 hr
French term (edited): concurrents à (deux, quatre, six, huit, mille) pattes

(other) creatures with 2, 4, 6, 8 or many more legs

suggestion
Peer comment(s):

agree Claire Cox
1 hr
Thank you Claire!
agree André Vanasse (X) : We are never alone...
6 hrs
Thank you André!
agree SJLD
9 hrs
Thank you Sue!
agree kashew
22 hrs
Thank you Kashew:-)
agree Sheila Hardie
1 day 11 hrs
Thank you Sheila:-)
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