Jan 29, 2009 17:21
15 yrs ago
Portuguese term
s.brook1 (X)
contos-é obra
Portuguese to English
Bus/Financial
Business/Commerce (general)
Sentence in full:
Como contrapartida desta oferta pediu uma comissao de 3% (cerca de 2,1 milhoes de contos-é obra).
Como contrapartida desta oferta pediu uma comissao de 3% (cerca de 2,1 milhoes de contos-é obra).
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 | 10.470.000 € per work |
José Henrique Moreira
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| 5 | 1 conto= 1,000 old Portuguese escudos |
Antonio Tomás Lessa do Amaral
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| 4 +1 | An amazing (...) million contos/euros |
Cristina Pereira
|
References
| contos |
Maria José Tavares (X)
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Proposed translations
1 hr
José Henrique Moreira
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Portugal
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Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, Spanish to Portuguese, and 3 more.
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4
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10.470.000 € per work
I am guessing that there's a typo, and it should be "à-obra", instead of "é-obra".
"é-obra" is written without the hifen and it means "amazing", or which I believe would not appear in this kind of text.
"à-obra" means "per work" and it makes sense here.
Cheers!
"é-obra" is written without the hifen and it means "amazing", or which I believe would not appear in this kind of text.
"à-obra" means "per work" and it makes sense here.
Cheers!
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks so much for your explanation - I think you're probably right but I'm also going to offer Cristina's interpretation as a suggestion!"
7 mins
Antonio Tomás Lessa do Amaral
Native in Portuguese
Specializes in field
Portuguese translations
Native in: Portuguese (Variants: Brazilian, Mozambican, Angolan, South African, European/Portugal, Cape Verdean)
Works in: English to Portuguese, Italian to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, and 4 more.
Related KudoZ points
:
44
1 conto= 1,000 old Portuguese escudos
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Note added at 10 mins (2009-01-29 17:32:16 GMT)
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200.482 escudos por euro, therefore one conto is just shy of 5 euros
Note from asker:
| Thanks a lot for your inpu! |
+1
52 mins
Cristina Pereira
Native in Portuguese
Specializes in field
translator + journalist=flawless writing
Native in: Portuguese 
Works in: English to Portuguese, French to Portuguese, Portuguese, and 1 more.
Related KudoZ points
:
50
An amazing (...) million contos/euros
1 conto = 1,000 escudos (as the others said)
"é obra" - usually stated as admiration for someone's achievement or something that was achieved.
"An amazing 2.1 million contos" is a possibility.
"é obra" - usually stated as admiration for someone's achievement or something that was achieved.
"An amazing 2.1 million contos" is a possibility.
Note from asker:
| Cristina thanks for your help - I am going to offer your interpretation as a possibility, in addition to 'per work' - both answers may be valie! |
Reference comments
7 mins
Reference:
contos
1 conto = Portuguese Escudos 1.000 (we still refer to the old currency instead of Euro)
é obra - you can perhaps traslate as: it's too much
é obra - you can perhaps traslate as: it's too much
Note from asker:
| Thanks so much for your help - or 'amazing' offered by Cristina is good! |
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