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'Mauvaise Foi'

  • 04-10-2005 10:43am
    #1
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Has anyone a good translation for 'mauvaise foi' in English? One that might be used regularly as opposed to 'mala fide'.


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  • #2
    lili
    Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭lili


    comment ça? il n'y a pas d'équivalent à "mauvaise foi" en anglais?
    serait-ce que les anglais sont toujours de bonne foi?:D


  • #3
    Gazza22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Gazza22


    Ah...un exemple d'une expression française et anglaise qui ne peut pas être traduite

    Je déteste ces barrières bilingues! Foi "Bad Faith" en anglais, je ne comprends pas


  • #4
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,731 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    What about 'coincé(e) du cul' ?


  • #5
    ambro25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,994 ✭✭✭ambro25


    "de mauvaise foi" = "in bad faith"

    Communément utilisé dans les textes légaux (UK / IE) :)


  • #6
    zinzin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭zinzin


    It's difficult to translate this and that why it is so often used within an english sentence.
    If I'm not mistaken it's the opposite of fair play or for example when someone is not admitting to a fault

    hope that helps


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  • #7
    Mountainsandh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,705 ✭✭✭Mountainsandh


    I would say when you are talking about someone as being "de mauvaise foi", you could actually translate that as "false" (as in, "he is false"), or "conceited" or even "deceiving" or "fallacious/perfidious" if that suits the context.
    (I'm French)


  • #8
    JOHNFRANCE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 125 ✭✭JOHNFRANCE


    Yep, tricky one to translate. Was asked by a (French) English teacher a few weeks back about this.

    If you say 'il est de mauvaise foi' it basically means 'he never admits to being wrong'.


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