Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
befreundete Unternehmen
English translation:
cooperating companies /partner companies
Added to glossary by
Z.E. Ball
Dec 1, 2008 12:59
15 yrs ago
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German term
befreundete Unternehmen
German to English
Marketing
Internet, e-Commerce
Diese Links verweisen auf langjährige Partner, befreundete Unternehmen oder einfach auf interessante Web-Sites.
This sentence is from the website of a marketing agency.
Can anyone help me make this sentence sound 'normal' in English?
This sentence is from the website of a marketing agency.
Can anyone help me make this sentence sound 'normal' in English?
Proposed translations
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| 3 +2 | cooperating companies |
Paul Merriam
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| 4 +2 | partners/partner companies/ partnerships |
AC0
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| 4 | associate/affiliate companies |
AC0
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| 4 | friends of the firm |
misterherrnau
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| 2 | recommended companies |
Alison MacG
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Proposed translations
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8 mins
Paul Merriam
Native in English
Years of experience
Native in: English
Works in: Russian to English, Polish to English, German to English, and 1 more.
Related KudoZ points
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cooperating companies
Some companies offer links to cooperating companies.
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
palilula (X)
5 mins
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| agree |
Rebecca Garber
: avoids the repetition and the legal ramifications implied in partner and affiliated
2 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks...this will help avoid the double reference to partner."
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14 mins
partners/partner companies/ partnerships
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or commercial partnerships
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Otherwise if, as correctly suggested by Trudy and Paul, you wish to avoid such a repetition (although repetitions are definitely more tolerated in English in comparison to other languages), you could talk about :
"associate/affiliate companies".
Which, of course, has the shortcoming of hinting at some kind of underlying official agreement between the parties.
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or commercial partnerships
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Otherwise if, as correctly suggested by Trudy and Paul, you wish to avoid such a repetition (although repetitions are definitely more tolerated in English in comparison to other languages), you could talk about :
"associate/affiliate companies".
Which, of course, has the shortcoming of hinting at some kind of underlying official agreement between the parties.
Note from asker:
| Thanks for all the effort and if I didn't have to use partner in the first part of the sentence, I would have selected your answer. |
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Edith Kelly
: partner companies
2 mins
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thanks, Edith!
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Trudy Peters
: partner companies are already in the asker's text
11 mins
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Yup. You're right.
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Paul Merriam
: The source text is making a distinction between "befreundete Unternehmen" and "Partner". If the distinction weren't being made, I'd talk about partners as well.
12 mins
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You're right as well.
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Birgit Mann
26 mins
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thanks, Birgit!
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1 hr
associate/affiliate companies
see the comment to my previous answer
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another option:
"cooperating companies"
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:-))))))
oooopppsss!
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How do you delete previous comments? Too late, I guess! :-)))))
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another option:
"cooperating companies"
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:-))))))
oooopppsss!
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How do you delete previous comments? Too late, I guess! :-)))))
Peer comment(s):
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sylvie malich (X)
: but these aren't associates or affiliates at all, they are just some companies they know and want to include on their website
7 mins
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Yup. That's what I made clear in my previous comment.
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Ulrike Kraemer
: Sylvie is right. Associate or affiliate companies are verbundene Unternehmen, not befreundete Unternehmen. And there was no need to post this as a separate answer ...
1 hr
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Well, it seems like not everybody reads the comments. That's why.
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Detlef Mahne (X)
: There is a "Hide answer" option below this answer in case you want to get rid of this suggestion!
12 hrs
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Thanks, Detlef.
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Alison MacG
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
United Kingdom
Patents and related material specialist
Native in: English (Variants: UK, British, Scottish) 
Works in: German to English, French to English, Swedish to English, and 4 more.
recommended companies
You may feel this moves too far away from the original German, but it does seem to capture the sense. An example:
http://www.purplepenguinmedia.co.uk/partners.html
The phrase "partners and friends" even appears to be quite common, especially in North America. See, e.g.:
http://www.northernoutdoors.com/site/about_us/preferred_part...
http://www.purplepenguinmedia.co.uk/partners.html
The phrase "partners and friends" even appears to be quite common, especially in North America. See, e.g.:
http://www.northernoutdoors.com/site/about_us/preferred_part...
4 hrs
friends of the firm
... is the conventional (sufficiently vague, inclusive) term in this context, and would be appropriate for an organization the size of an agency.
Discussion
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/german_to_english/business_commerc...