Nous verons cela quand nous nous verons.

[WJT]

Does anyone know what "Nous verons cela quand nous nous verons" means? I have tried Googling, Google translate and Bablefish and am none the wiser.

[Chancer]

Could it have possibly been "nous verrons cela quand nous vous verrons" ?

[suein56]

If you change it to nous verrons ..... then, IMHO, it seems to say:

we'll see (that) when we see it

Edit: Chancer beat me to it

[WJT]

No I copied the statement and pasted it here, it was in an email from an artisan. Perhaps it was misquoted?

Edit: It just occurred to me, could it mean something like "we will be there when we will be there"? Sadly sounds about right. [:(]

[Chancer]

A lot of artisans dont have or need a very high standard of literacy, an electrician that oversaw my first installation reluctantly wrote a letter for me asking for a Consuel inspection, even though I could not string a sentence together at the time I knew better than to send it, in retrospect I was ashamed to have put him in an embarrassing situation.

Anyway I think we can assume that he has mis-spelt verrons, they would not be saying nous nous verrons so I think it should have been nous vous verrons, which makes me think that it means - "we will see (about?) that when we see you".

Difficult to know without what dialogue had preceeded it.

[WJT]

Thank you very much. I guess that makes sense. He is coming to re-solder the zinc gutters that didn't seem to take the first time around last winter and he also said he will clean up a mess his brother has left.

[suein56]

[quote user="Chancer"]

Anyway I think we can assume that he has mis-spelt verrons, they would not be saying nous nous verrons so I think it should have been nous vous verrons, which makes me think that it means - "we will see (about?) that when we see you".[/quote]

I think Chancer has cracked it - sounds right to me.

[Chancer]

I am not confident Sue.

If I knew the context and previous dialogue I might be more so.

Does it make sense to you WJT?

Editted, I hadnt seen your post WJT.

[WJT]

I think it sounds about right but unfortunately for me a little vague. In any case a much better translation than Google, I was beginning to think he was talking about dance. Google translation:

We verona it when we verona. [:D]

[Nickel]

I think -allowing for the spelling!!     we will see about that when we meet again  (se voir)

[Chancer]

I was thinking along those terms I knew the phrase ça se voit but hadnt realised that se voire was actually a verb prenominal.

Maybe it means "we will see about that when we show up" se voir being to show. Hey! it could even be "show ourselves up" [;-)]

At least they didnt use the conditionnel.

Languages are fascinating.

 

[Christine Animal]

It means we shall see that, or about that, when we see each other.   [:)]   And it is of course verrons.

The French ones are on strike, so we have to see about that together.   [:D]

 

[NormanH]

Yes.

We'll see about that next time we meet.

'Se voir' = meet in the sense of 'see each other'

[WJT]

Thank you for all the input, it is more positive than I thought. Now I just need a date!

Happy to know though he won't be expecting me to dance with him.  [:)] 

[Albert the InfoGipsy]

It actually sounds quite sensible to me.

<<Nous verons cela quand nous nous verons>>

"We'll see about it when we see each other. " (Allowing for a slight spelling error:  <<verons>> should be <<verrons>>)

[allanb]

Sorry, duplication.