Към съдържанието
Отговор

Please Make Way

от rikardoabbot, 19 март 2010

Съобщения: 25

Език: English

rikardoabbot (Покажи профила) 19 март 2010, 05:06:12

I am looking for a translation to "Please Make Way" which is concise, polite, imperative, and conveys the idea of yielding right of way. Thanks.

ceigered (Покажи профила) 19 март 2010, 07:11:26

Is this any similar to "give way" signs in Australia?

rikardoabbot (Покажи профила) 19 март 2010, 08:00:41

I think so. Usage might be, if I hear a police siren and I am a passenger in a car, I might tell the driver to "please make way"

ceigered (Покажи профила) 19 март 2010, 08:32:49

rikardoabbot:I think so. Usage might be, if I hear a police siren and I am a passenger in a car, I might tell the driver to "please make way"
Oh, no, that's different to our give way, I'm sorry for that bit of confusion Lango.gif - Maybe "turnu la auxton maldekstre/dekstre por la _____" or "Parku la auxton por la _____" might do the trick?

rikardoabbot (Покажи профила) 19 март 2010, 08:35:21

Thanks for the suggestions.

Does "bonvolu flanken" also communicate the idea?

ceigered (Покажи профила) 19 март 2010, 08:52:27

rikardoabbot:Thanks for the suggestions.

Does "bonvolu flanken" also communicate the idea?
Mmm... Sort of, but not quite - you might be understood but not likely. "Bonvolu flanken" more or less means "please, to the side". "flankiĝi" means "to stray off" which isn't exactly what we are looking for... Maybe:

-"Bonvolu veturigu flanken" (Please drive to the side)
-"Bonvolu iru flanken" (Please go to the side)
-"Bonvolu donu flankspacon" (please give side-space)

But "Bonvolu, flanken" would make sense but might leave the listener with a delayed reaction. It's probably better than my previous example "turnu la aŭton kaj tiel plu", however rideto.gif

rikardoabbot (Покажи профила) 19 март 2010, 08:55:37

Thank you for the help!

tommjames (Покажи профила) 19 март 2010, 10:15:26

ceigered:Bonvolu veturigu
Bonvolu iru
Bonvolu donu
That would be:

Bonvolu veturigi
Bonvolu iri
Bonvolu doni

tommjames (Покажи профила) 19 март 2010, 10:28:27

As for rikardoabbot's question, perhaps "cedi la vojon" would be appropriate. It appears in Quo Vadis:

Quo vadis:La homoj ne volis cedi la vojon al la soldatoj

The people didn't want to give way to the soldiers.

ceigered (Покажи профила) 19 март 2010, 10:30:10

tommjames:
ceigered:Bonvolu veturigu
Bonvolu iru
Bonvolu donu
That would be:

Bonvolu veturigi
Bonvolu iri
Bonvolu doni
Are you sure? I always thought of it as something like "Want-(imperative) good, (kaj) (action)-(imperative)". Otherwise it's like "Want to do (action) well!" :-/

I suppose either train of logic works just as well though, and, although in some cases the differences aren't great, "-u -i" seems to be more common than "-u -u" on Google. (using "iri/iru", "legi/legu" and "skribi/skribu").

(And bertilow highly disagrees with "-u -u". In that case, how about "Bonvole veturigu"? (or "Bonvole cedu la vojon" as you've suggested?), or "Bonvolu, veturigu"?)

Обратно нагоре