Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

revient

English translation:

costs

Added to glossary by pooja_chic
Jun 2, 2011 12:18
12 yrs ago
French term

revient

French to English Other General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters Letter
ce marché de dupe passe avec votre entreprise nous revient financièrement a la somme de XXX, sans compter les agios et les intérêts de la banque, le manque a gagner de sept annees de faux fuyant, dans un cercle vicieux dans lequel vous nous aviez précipité.

I suggest..accrue to us.......
Proposed translations (English)
4 +1 costs us
4 amounts to
4 costs
Change log

Jun 8, 2011 18:32: pooja_chic changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/1063948">pooja_chic's</a> old entry - " revient "" to ""costs us""

Discussion

Mike Birch Jun 2, 2011:
Terry and Chris Not just the letter - the name of the company as well. In fact how about the name of the writer? One could publish an anthology of letters like this.
Terry Richards Jun 2, 2011:
What Chris said I would _love_ to see the entire letter :)
polyglot45 Jun 2, 2011:
has cost us the princely sum of the bagatelle of
If you want to add a little more colour. It is latent in the French
chris collister Jun 2, 2011:
Congratulations to the letter writer, whoever he or she may be. This Potteresque "Howler" is the sort of letter I wish I could have written to a number or telecoms companies and banks. I hope the paper is not too scorched.

Proposed translations

+1
4 mins
Selected

costs us

This is how I read it.
Peer comment(s):

neutral polyglot45 : in English better in past tense
1 hr
Not in this case.
agree Dieezah
5 hrs
Thank you.
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2 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "thanks"
4 mins

amounts to

..
Peer comment(s):

neutral polyglot45 : as above
1 hr
Something went wrong...
4 mins

costs

*

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Note added at 7 mins (2011-06-02 12:26:22 GMT)
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revenir = coûter (dans ce contexte)
Peer comment(s):

neutral polyglot45 : in the past tense would be better
1 hr
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