Sep 14, 2007 14:12
16 yrs ago
Danish term
Russell Mattinson (X)
"et ti mand høje kontor"
Danish to English
Bus/Financial
Business/Commerce (general)
Does this quite simply mean an office with ten staff members?
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 +1 | "a ten men strong office" |
Tomasz Sienicki
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| 3 +1 | a ten person office |
William [Bill] Gray
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Proposed translations
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3 hrs
Tomasz Sienicki
Denmark
Denmark
Works in field
Denmark
Over 20 years of multilingual experience
Native in: Polish (Variant: Standard-Poland) 
Works in: Danish to Polish, Polish to Danish, Norwegian to Polish, and 2 more.
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+1
15 hrs
William [Bill] Gray
Norway
Norway
Native in English
Works in field
Norway
Working with words
Native in: English
Works in: English, Norwegian to English, Danish to English, and 1 more.
a ten person office
More politically correct to use "person"!
But is does sound rather unusual in the Danish; do they really use that construction, or is this, as I begin to suspect, a translation from another language?
Is it related to disaster relief/preparedness, as in my search link?
But is does sound rather unusual in the Danish; do they really use that construction, or is this, as I begin to suspect, a translation from another language?
Is it related to disaster relief/preparedness, as in my search link?
Example sentence:
So our ten-person office will spend $1100–$2500 on hardware,
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