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212 months ago

Aharon303  See profile asked this question:

Language pair:

English > French

Subject:

Law / Certificates

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

whereas

Context:

in a contract

 

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212 months ago

  See profile wrote:

Attendu que,considérant que, vu que

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212 months ago

MC  See profile wrote:

whereas

My comment:

vous devriez changer de métier

212 months ago

MC  See profile wrote:

attendu

My comment:

que..
This is the equivalent in legal jargon.

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212 months ago

Jennifer White  See profile wrote:

Agree: attendu que

212 months ago

Claude Le Frapper  See profile wrote:

attendu

My comment:

que..
This is the equivalent in legal jargon.

212 months ago

Claude Le Frapper  See profile wrote:

alors que

My comment:

tout depend du contexte. Whereas est un articulateur de concession/opposition qui peut avoir plusieurs equivalents en francais.

212 months ago

Claude Le Frapper  See profile wrote:

tandis que

My comment:

This is used when contrasting two situations.

Comments by other colleagues on this answer:

212 months ago

Jennifer White  See profile wrote:

"tandis que" is what stands regularly for "whereas"

212 months ago

Iwona Piatkowska  See profile wrote:

I fully agree. However, if the asker could provide a wider context we all could think of other equivalents.