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Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

front slopes

Norwegian translation:

hovedbakkene

Added to glossary by Jordan Eriksen
Mar 31, 2011 02:16
13 yrs ago
English term

front slope

English to Norwegian Other Tourism & Travel
Hi, I'm having trouble translating this word into Norwegian.

"It is located next to the front slopes"

It's a text about hotels. Anyone?
Proposed translations (Norwegian)
4 +1 hovedbakkene
4 +1 hovedbakken
4 de første bakkene
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Mar 31, 2011 12:08: Egil Presttun changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"

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PRO (3): Koen Speetjens (X), Gunnar Sommerfeldt, Egil Presttun

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Discussion

Anne Mar 31, 2011:
Re the plural form, the requested term was singular. If the phrase to be translated is actually plural, just adapt to "hovedbakkene". I am certainly familiar with "front slopes"as a colloquial reference to the main slope(s) of ski resorts I ski at in Australia. It is the nearest slope(s) to the resort (s), and can sometimes also be referred to as “front valley”. This is to distinguish it from areas known “back slopes” or "back-country" – a distinction often important as many Australians are inexperienced skiers and encouraged to keep to the front slopes/front valley.
Koen Speetjens (X) Mar 31, 2011:
Litt merkelig uttrykk. Et google-søk på "next to the front slopes" gir bare treff som har med Finland å gjøre. Kanskje dette er direkte oversatt fra Finsk? Da kan det lønne seg å spørre i det språkparet.

Muligens menes at det ligger rett ved de første bakkene? (Hvis det finnes flere bakker litt lenger unna). Når det gjelder bruk av "hovedbakken" stusser jeg litt over flertallsformen her, men det kan jo være en skrivefeil.

Proposed translations

+1
1 day 20 hrs
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hovedbakkene

'it is located next to the front slopes' (slopes is plural). I am a skiier, have skiied 6 different counties, including many areas of Norway when I lived there. We always referred to carparks 'like ved hovedbakkene' (the front slopes being the main point of entry for the rest of the ski runs).
Example sentence:

Vi parkerte like ved hovedbakkene.

Peer comment(s):
agree Per Bergvall : Actually a good twist on the matter at hand.
3 days 17 hrs
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
+1
2 hrs

hovedbakken

If this is ski field related, my guess would be "hovedbakken", as in "hotelet ligger like ved hovedbakken".
Peer comment(s):
agree Gunnar Sommerfeldt : Agree. I've heard this term several times as well. Asker; as Anne has said in remarked in the discussion, this is singular form, as per requested term.
4 hrs
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1 day 3 hrs

de første bakkene

In most ski resorts, it's about getting into the lift and slope system, as in ski in/ski out. In Trysil, the Radisson offers true ski in, ski out, despite being located a bit away from what some might call the main slopes. So you ski down the first slope, and catch the lift that takes you into the system of 30 other lifts and 68 other slopes. And trust me - it is plural, as no resort on the planet would have just one.
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