Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Serbian term or phrase:
malte ne sve
English translation:
Almost all of them
Added to glossary by
Vladimir Micic
Jan 10, 2008 19:48
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malte ne sve
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http://www.sk.co.yu/forum/showthread.php?t=10511&page=18
Trebate biti svjesni da puske koje su se tada koristile su bile daleko nesavrsenije nego bilo koje modernije puske. Uzmimo na primjer da su danasnje puske radjene masinski sa daleko vecom tacnoscu nego, recimo, 1800, kada su *malte ne sve* radjene u vecim kovacnicama. [Asterisks are mine.]
Trebate biti svjesni da puske koje su se tada koristile su bile daleko nesavrsenije nego bilo koje modernije puske. Uzmimo na primjer da su danasnje puske radjene masinski sa daleko vecom tacnoscu nego, recimo, 1800, kada su *malte ne sve* radjene u vecim kovacnicama. [Asterisks are mine.]
Proposed translations
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| 4 +11 | Almost all of them |
Vladimir Micic
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| 4 | so to speak/say all |
I Hodak
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| 4 | most of them |
Gordana Smith
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Change log
Jan 10, 2008 20:35: Aleksandar Medić changed "Language pair" from "Croatian to English" to "Serbian to English"
Jan 11, 2008 07:52: Vladimir Micic Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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Vladimir Micic
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Almost all of them
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eleonora_r
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Veronica Prpic Uhing
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Sladjana Spaic
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Karen Ordanic
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Aleksandar Medić
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Sherefedin MUSTAFA
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Dubravka Hrastovec
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Larisa Djuvelek-Ruggiero (X)
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Mark Daniels
: Right, or maybe "just about all of them", as "maltene" is quite colloquial.
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Ulvija Tanovic (X)
: practically all of them, perhaps
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Lots of agreement and it fits the context well. Unless I hear otherwise, I'll assume that Croats use this expression the same way Serbs do."
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so to speak/say all
so to speak/say all
or:
almost all
practically all
or:
almost all
practically all
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Gordana Smith
United States
United States
United States
Bosnian, Serbo-Croatian ling. since 1996
Native in: Serbo-Croat , Bosnian
Works in: English to Bosnian, English to Serbian, English to Serbo-Croat, and 2 more.
most of them
:)
Discussion
No, Paul, in standard Croatian we don't. You might hear it in some local variants but not in standard language.
I agree with Aleksandar.