81 Tote - What is the English translation? English translators help technical English translators with the translation of 81 Tote

Conges terminology question

207 months ago

h.kloster (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	German > English
Subject:	Technical / Engineering
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	81 Tote
Context:	Die Schweinegrippe forderte mindestens 81 Tote
Keywords:	81 dead, 81 deads?

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207 months ago

Aharon303 wrote:

81 fatalities

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207 months ago

daniela wrote:

81 people died ...

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207 months ago

daniela wrote:

81 dead

My comment:

81 dead

'led' is free english translation
'demanded' would be a literal translation

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207 months ago

Nicola Devlin wrote:

The Swine flu claimed at least 81 lives

My comment:

Fears were growing last night that a deadly human strain of "swine flu" that has claimed 68 lives in Mexico had arrived in Britain.
Erste Seite miener heutige Zeitung.

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The Mail on Sunday

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Comments by other colleagues on this answer:

207 months ago

wrote:

This is an excellent suggestion. I can't help wondering what the asker is doing even trying to translate the sentence if he needs to ask whether to use "dead" or "deads".

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