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Example sentences for: revoir
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At any rate, goodbye really does not translate au revoir, Adieu, also borrowed intact into English, would do as the French equivalent of goodbye , and vice versa; but that equivalence gets us nowhere with au revoir , except to point up the fact that goodbye does not mean au revoir .
William H. Dougherty's article, “French Leave” [XVII, 3], concerning the difficulty of translating satisfactorily the title of the movie Au Revoir les Enfants , reminds me of a conversation that, as an undergraduate at Princeton, I had in the 1930s with Professor Maurice E. Coindreau, who was engaged in translating Hemingway into French.
Only the first of its four words slips easily enough into English, as till . But English is the only European language I know that has no calque for the expression au revoir , probably because we have adopted this French phrase, like many others, intact, while other languages have the phrase calqued as: hasta la vista, a rivederci, do svidaniya, do widzenia, auf Wiedersehen, etc.
However, the short phrase Au revoir les enfants would resist translation even if it were desirable to put it into English.
Au revoir, Steve