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Hi people!

I just wondered if anyone could translate this small 15 word statement for my planning application... It would be a great help to me - I could send you over some Marmite or perhaps some Branston pickle.

Thanks in advance.

Mc

" Renovation of an existing building, back into habitatable use. Comprising of 2 en-suite bedrooms and lounge "
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Using www.freetranslation.com this is what you get....

La restauration d'un bâtiment existant, de retour dans l'usage de habitatable. Comprendre de 2 chambres à coucher d'en-suite et la salon

If you go into the above site you can play about with the English/French until you get a good translation (the translator gives the "gist")

Another site that may help for single words - www.wordreference.com

I hope this helps you more than the last post!!!![Www]

Regards

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Rez - Welcome to the Forum.

Geoff and Nell - the problem with online translations is that thay can be completely off-beam.  I used an online translation for a letter to a propane gas company about a gas tank in the garden. It translated tank into a French word for a reservoir.  The rep came out to see me a few days later and said that my letter had been passed around their office for laughs because I had asked for a large reservoir to be installed in my back garden!

Rez - there are a number of French people in this Forum and hopefully, they can assist.  Clair, for example, is really helpful.

 

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Yes like la crème de la crème, en-suite is not a French Expression. 

 Try http://freetranslation.imtranslator.com/ or http://dictionary.reference.com/translate/  for translations, both are quite good but with all such sites need caution.  Also try using French phrasing not English.

If you put : La rénovation d'un bâtiment existant à l'utilisation habitable. Le batiment consistera de 2 chambres avec les salles de bains et une salle de séjour.   They will know what you intend.

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As Ron has suggested but you could insert the word "attenantes"  after "salles de bains" i.e "Le bâtiment consistera de 2 chambres avec salles de bain attenantes et une salle de sejour." which makes it clear that the bathrooms are en suite which is, as has been said, an English expression.

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A quick google of pages francophone reveals that a surprisingly large number of impeccably French people seem to use the expression 'salle de bain en suite'. 

As it is unknown in France I wonder what they can possibly mean by it?

I must admit, however, to being baffled by the concept of a bedroom 'en suite'  -  this, under most circumstances, sounds like a highly inconvenient arrangement.

As for crème de la crème, it appears (merely to give one citation amongst the thousands), no less than three times in Grunwald's Vie de Metternich (1938).

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Thank you everyone for all your help - its been a real pain to get planning in France - they recently changed the law and wouldnt except any applications fro nearly a year in my commune.!!!

Im sure I have something wrong on the forms but Im just going to submitt it and see what happens.

Thanks again for all your help - much appreciated

Rez
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[quote user="Gengulphus"]A quick google of pages francophone reveals that a surprisingly large number of impeccably French people seem to use the expression 'salle de bain en suite'.  [/quote]

... and another good one was en suite parking included though perhaps used ironically.  A favourite in my family is bog en suite.

I wonder what the Académie française would make of a phrase borrowed and perhaps misused by the English which then made its way back to French?

Bain marie Rodders, bain marie!  [;-)]

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