Citoyenne - What is the English translation? English translators help legal English translators with the translation of Citoyenne

Conges terminology question

248 months ago

Brent Lunger (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Law / Certificates
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	Citoyenne
Context:	Birth Certificate from Haiti
Keywords:	...nous a présenté un enfant d

The answer of was rated best

Citizen

My comment:

I often see translations of Haitian birth certificates and "citizen" is usually used for "citoyenne"

The asker's comment:

I would entertain the answer "Mrs" if it was more clear that we were dealing with a person of that classification. It is unclear that she is married, even in a common law sense, by the context, and thus, "Mrs." becomes only one of several possibilities. Others are "Ms.", "Miss", "Mistress", and "Madame". "Citizen", although literal and general, would fit if that is how women such as this are addressed in Haiti, such as "Comrade" was in Russia and other titles, though they would sound odd here, are common in the context of the source language. Another possibility I wondered about was (choose your feminine title, Mrs, Ms., etc), a fellow townswoman with Mr. ___. , or ... from the same town as ___. I'm not 100% comfortable with "Citizen", but upon seeing the alternatives, it seems more appropriate than I thought before.