he wanted me to send you there

curiosity@?.?.invalid writes
- I assumed the subjunctive was required and googled for:-

il voulait que je vous y envoie

- but it returned nothing.


- could someone suggest one or two possibe translations?
Google worked for me! Both "he wanted that I send you there" and "he
wanted me to send you there" translate to "il voulait que je vous
envoyer là-bas". The reverse translation gave "he wanted me to send you
there".
--
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down in the dust?" "It's a very effective way of being wretched," said Marvin.
Mike ;-(

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:29:36 +0100, Lanarcam <email@anonym;
wrote:

curiosity a écrit :
- I assumed the subjunctive was required and googled for:-

il voulait que je vous y envoie

- but it returned nothing.


- could someone suggest one or two possibe translations?

"Il voulait que je vous y envoie" est tout à fait correct.
On peut dire aussi "Il voulait que je vous envoie là-bas".

- that's a relief. (yes, of course, I forgot the 'là-bas' option)

merci Lanarcam!

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:29:07 +0000, Mike H
<email@anonym; wrote:

Google worked for me! Both "he wanted that I send you there" and "he
wanted me to send you there" translate to "il voulait que je vous
envoyer là-bas". The reverse translation gave "he wanted me to send you
there".
--

I couldn't figure out why you were getting results invisible to me but
now the penny's dropped I see you were using google's 'translator' -
my method to date has been to simply key my best guess (in french)
into google's basic search field. Usually with a tweak or two I can
get some idea of failure or success but it's some time since I used
the translator and I wondered how it's rated by the francophiles whose
english is good enough to make the judgement? Does anyone have any
thoughts on its merits? I note that although it overlooked the
subjunctive, it wasn't a hopeless result by any means.

curiosity a écrit :
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:29:07 +0000, Mike H
<email@anonym; wrote:

Google worked for me! Both "he wanted that I send you there" and "he
wanted me to send you there" translate to "il voulait que je vous
envoyer là-bas". The reverse translation gave "he wanted me to send you
there".
--

I couldn't figure out why you were getting results invisible to me but
now the penny's dropped I see you were using google's 'translator' -
my method to date has been to simply key my best guess (in french)
into google's basic search field. Usually with a tweak or two I can
get some idea of failure or success but it's some time since I used
the translator and I wondered how it's rated by the francophiles whose
english is good enough to make the judgement? Does anyone have any
thoughts on its merits? I note that although it overlooked the
subjunctive, it wasn't a hopeless result by any means.

Google translator has improved recently, I know that they use
a different method that gives better results, but I would never
use it to translate from English into French so I can't tell if
it is good or not in that respect.