Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Czech term or phrase:
každou sudou sobotu a neděli
English translation:
every other weekend (even weeks only)
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Dylan Edwards
Oct 31, 2008 11:53
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každou sudou sobotu a neděli
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... matka je povinna strpět styk otce s nezletilými ...... *každou sudou sobotu a neděli* od 8.00 hodin v sobotu do 18.00 hodin v neděli, Velikonoční pondělí každého roku od ... do ...
Just want to check to make sure I'm not missing something important. It seems to me that 'sobotu a neděli' are being considered as a unit, so it would be better to say 'weekend' in English.
'sudou' - I could say 'every other' or 'alternate' but I assume it's a bit more specific, i.e. that it means 'even' as in 'even numbers'.
Just want to check to make sure I'm not missing something important. It seems to me that 'sobotu a neděli' are being considered as a unit, so it would be better to say 'weekend' in English.
'sudou' - I could say 'every other' or 'alternate' but I assume it's a bit more specific, i.e. that it means 'even' as in 'even numbers'.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +3 | every other weekend (even weeks only) |
Prokop Vantuch
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| 5 | every other Saturday and Sunday |
ladka
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| 4 | even weekends only |
Jana Bedanova
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Proposed translations
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every other weekend (even weeks only)
that's what I would say
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Yeah, exactly - it refers to the numbers of weeks in the year.
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Note added at 1 hr (2008-10-31 13:52:04 GMT) Post-grading
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You're welcome. I think this is the way we Czechs say that and since the peers agree, we understand it the same.
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Well, in cases like that I always look in a calendar to see what week it is. Czech calendars usually have it. Opening my Outlook calendar I can see that Week 1 of this year was from Dec 31, 2007 to Jan 6, 2008 and Week 52 is from Dec 22 to Dec 28. And Week 1 of 2009 is from Dec 29, 2008 to Jan 4, 2009.
And you're right - at the university here in Sweden all classes are referred to as "starting on Wednesday in week 46" etc.
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Yeah, exactly - it refers to the numbers of weeks in the year.
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Note added at 1 hr (2008-10-31 13:52:04 GMT) Post-grading
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You're welcome. I think this is the way we Czechs say that and since the peers agree, we understand it the same.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2008-10-31 14:25:33 GMT) Post-grading
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Well, in cases like that I always look in a calendar to see what week it is. Czech calendars usually have it. Opening my Outlook calendar I can see that Week 1 of this year was from Dec 31, 2007 to Jan 6, 2008 and Week 52 is from Dec 22 to Dec 28. And Week 1 of 2009 is from Dec 29, 2008 to Jan 4, 2009.
And you're right - at the university here in Sweden all classes are referred to as "starting on Wednesday in week 46" etc.
Note from asker:
| Thanks. A good solution. Is this 'even' in the sense of 2nd, 4th, 6th etc. throughout the year, i.e. counting all 52 weeks of the year? |
| Just a footnote: conventions may vary on how the weeks of the year are counted. If we're thinking in terms of whole weeks (e.g. beginning on Monday and ending on Sunday), I'm not sure what you do with a part-week at the beginning of a year - do you count it or not? A colleague tells me they seem to be very keen on 'weeks of the year' in Scandinavian countries. Perhaps you know something about that, being is Sweden? i.e. they'll tell you a translation is wanted 'in week 39' or something like that. |
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you, Prokop. From a logical point of view, this makes the most sense.
Perhaps it's the way the sentence is written - it led me in other directions at first!"
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even weekends only
I d say that "every other week" sounds more likely every other (random) week
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but who knows.. but that's just my feeling of it
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but who knows.. but that's just my feeling of it
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