French term
localité
Généralement les ménages deviennent propriétaires grâce à un héritage ou un don. La marchandisation du foncier est récente et ne concerne qu'un nombre limité de localité
(In this report, "loclité" somethimes refers to a town and sometimes to a village so I need a term that would be suitable in both cases).
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Chris Maddux
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| 3 +5 | place(s) |
polyglot45
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Tony M
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Mar 22, 2015 11:10: Jennifer White changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Non-PRO (3): philgoddard, mchd, Jennifer White
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Proposed translations
area
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Chakib Roula
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Choukrane, Chakib!
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Chris Maddux
: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/57764/location-vs...
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Yes, that seems to me to exactly confirm my suggestion. 'localité' is used more specifically in FR than the faux ami locality in EN, which is used more restrictively.
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Works in: English to French, French to English, German to French, and 4 more.
place(s)
Often "place" translates into "localité" in French so why not return the compliment?
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Chris Maddux
: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/57764/location-vs...
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Jennifer White
: Can't understand the neutral. "Places" seems fine to me........
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writeaway
: With Jennifer. This is also fine. It's non-specific, just like locality.
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Tony M
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Jean-Claude Gouin
: IMHO, 'place(s)' is much better than 'locality'; 'locality' doesn't sound right ... 'Location' would also be a good choice ... it could be a city, a village, an area, a suburb, etc. Also, in 'nombre limité de localité', the 'S' is missing ...
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Yvonne Gallagher
: "town" or "village"="place" (not "locality" or "area")
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Native in: English (Variant: US)
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English Old (ca.450-1100) to English, and 1 more.
locality
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Note added at 3 hrs (2015-03-22 09:36:19 GMT)
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http://i.word.com/idictionary/locality
Both of these definitions clearly define the word locality so well in what is being used for localité up above.
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http://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/locality
Even the etymology of this word is grassrooted in the French Localité.
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http://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/localité#French
Vice versa it works for the reverse as well,
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http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/57764/location-vs...
Although in the exact instance of this translation, I would inherently use localities for the plurality expressed in the sentence.
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Lara Barnett
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Thanks!
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philgoddard
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Why did you vote non-pro?
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writeaway
: there is a mistake in the French. The plurality should be expressed. I.e. an 's' is missing./fyi, this has been voted non-pro because it's a term any bilingual person would know without looking it up.
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Thank you!
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mchd
: en utilisant la forme pluriel : un nombre limité = plusieurs localités/Ce terme est courant, ou pour le moins, il figure dans tout dictionnaire.
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why did you vote non-pro?
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John Holland
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Thanks for the vote!
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Verginia Ophof
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Thank you!
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Discussion
All those terms have internationally-recognised definitions (and equivalents in all major languages) in the geo-political domain.