they paved the way - What is the Hebrew translation? Hebrew translators help technical Hebrew translators with the translation of they paved the way

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240 months ago

jeremy (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	English > Hebrew
Subject:	Technical / Engineering
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	they paved the way
Context:	the people who were killed in
Keywords:	-

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240 months ago

wrote:

äí ñììå àú äãøê

My comment:

The English phrase, given as context, is weird, unless it's taken from a futuristic text. The holocaust was ~3 generations ago, how can the writer speak about "ancestors" for whom the holocaust paved the way?

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240 months ago

wrote:

Not sure what the chronology problem is: their children were 2 generations ago for the speaker. Why exactly are you giving this answer, seeing that I gave exactly the same one quite some time before you?

240 months ago

wrote:

äí ñììå àú äãøê

My comment:

If the answer in Hebrew letters doesn't come out on your computer then here it is in English lettering:
"hem salelu et ha derech"

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240 months ago

wrote:

Why exactly are you giving this answer, seeing that I gave exactly the same one quite some time before you? AND your transliteration is wrong: ha-derekh is ONE word, not two.

240 months ago

John Kinory wrote:

hem salelu et ha-derekh

My comment:

äí ñììå àú äãøê

hem = they
salelu = paved
et = direct object marker
ha-derekh = the way

(There are other options, e.g. 'kavshu' instead of 'salelu', but I feel it's excessively literary. Another word for 'way' is 'nativ', but it sounds better in the plural).

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240 months ago

wrote:

John. Daniel, and Yael all gave a correct answer. I agree with Yael that the context sounds absurd. "Paved the way for my ancestors" is nonsense.

240 months ago

wrote:

I was the first to answer (and the only one to explain the words); and Daniel's transliteration is wrong. The context is unimportant: the phrase lends itself to straightforward translation.

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