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French term
valoriser quelqu'un
French to English
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general vocab query
comment traduire ce verbe en anglais ?
valoriser quelqu'un par rapport à une autre personne. Je sais traduire valoriser dans le sens financier (valoriser une action, une entreprise) mais pour une personne impossible de trouver dans le dico le verbe correct.
Thanks for your help
valoriser quelqu'un par rapport à une autre personne. Je sais traduire valoriser dans le sens financier (valoriser une action, une entreprise) mais pour une personne impossible de trouver dans le dico le verbe correct.
Thanks for your help
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Carol Gullidge
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compare someone favourably
from your context, I'd say: " compare someone favourably to another person"
but only in this context
but only in this context
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Sheila Wilson
: Sounds very natural in the context given. IMO, practically every occurrence of "valoriser" needs a different translation.
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many thanks Sheila! - yes, I agree that there's a different translation for valoriser for every occasion
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Chris Hall
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many thanks Chris!
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emiledgar
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many thanks emiledgar!
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Evans (X)
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many thanks Gilla! yes, this is a word I always struggle with
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Verginia Ophof
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many thanks Verginia!
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to increase the standing of someone
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attach greater value to one person over another
valoriser,
Sens 1 Augmenter la valeur de quelque chose. Synonyme revaloriser Anglais to develop
Sens 2 Donner plus d'importance à quelqu'un. Anglais to improve the image of
http://www.linternaute.com/dictionnaire/fr/definition/valori...
With the meagre context given, this could also be the meaning
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value one person over another
Sens 1 Augmenter la valeur de quelque chose. Synonyme revaloriser Anglais to develop
Sens 2 Donner plus d'importance à quelqu'un. Anglais to improve the image of
http://www.linternaute.com/dictionnaire/fr/definition/valori...
With the meagre context given, this could also be the meaning
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Note added at 21 mins (2010-05-09 14:32:33 GMT)
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value one person over another
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act as if someone is better than someone else
Hello,
It's really hard to tell you what the best translation would be here, considering there's such limited context.
It seems to be about acting as if someone as if he or she is better than someone else. But we'd have to know more context to know what the best word would be in English.
"Valoriser" is a very "all-purpose" French word that requires a "specific" word in English.
I hope this helps.
It's really hard to tell you what the best translation would be here, considering there's such limited context.
It seems to be about acting as if someone as if he or she is better than someone else. But we'd have to know more context to know what the best word would be in English.
"Valoriser" is a very "all-purpose" French word that requires a "specific" word in English.
I hope this helps.
Discussion
Some ideas from Kiwipedia:
give new life (new-life as adj. for "valorisé"); promote self-worth, make rewarding, (self-)image boosting; foster image (as seen by others); accentuate.
Could you give us some of the lead-in to and lead-out from your expression?
I can even see it meaning "give more worth" not to the person but "to the job carried out by a person"; so, on the assembly line, Joe Bloggs (or Simon Schuster on the next shift) fitting seat belts to the chassis might be "valorisé", in some way, with respect to Alain Duvilliers (or Petra Petralski on the next shift) fitting headlights. Context really is needed.