whodunit

French translation: polar

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00:55 Oct 12, 2020
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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
Additional field(s): Cinema, Film, TV, Drama, Poetry & Literature, Media / Multimedia
English term or phrase: whodunit
Definition from Merriam-Webster:
A detective story or mystery story.

Example sentence(s):
  • A good way to kill the suspense in your whodunit is to make your antagonist predictable and cartoonish. Alyssa Mackay
  • Are we in a new Golden Age of the whodunit? Telegraph
  • While Agatha Christie is still the first to spring to mind when thinking of the ultimate ‘whodunit’ books, detectives, murderers and victims have changed a lot since then; the breadth of crime, thrillers, detective and psychological novels out there, keeping us on tenterhooks until the last few pages, is vast. WH Smith
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French translation:polar
Definition:
Terme familier pour un roman (ou film) policier
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Gilles Wandel
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polar


Definition from Larousse:
Terme familier pour un roman (ou film) policier

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Explanation:
Comme avec l'original en anglais, on reste dans le registre familier.
Gilles Wandel
Belgium
Local time: 12:30
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 8

Votes in favor of/against selecting this as the best translation of the term asked
Yes  Hugues Marianne
9 mins

Yes  D. Eme Diptrans
2 days 3 hrs

Yes  Eliza Hall: Yes. The FR equivalent is best, even though it doesn't capture the meaning ("who done it" = who did it = figuring out who committed the crime). Unless your text is talking about what "whodunit" means, in which case you would need to translate the meaning.
2 days 5 hrs

Yes  katsy: I always thought it was 'whodunnit'! But perfect in my opinion. The idea is to know who committed the crime...
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