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198 months ago

Geea (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

French > English

Subject:

General

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

saoulant

Context:

la qualité, l'innovation sont là, la politique de prix est saôulante, les prix sont abusif

Keywords:

..., invendable /// this is an answer to a survey question (same survey regarding pet food). The translations I'm finding don't make sense for prices...TIA.

 

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198 months ago

Charles Ferguson  See profile wrote:

galling

My comment:

Not easy to translate as "inebriating" in this context, but at leat "galling" has a GIT connotation!

198 months ago

Charles Ferguson  See profile wrote:

unnerving

My references:

http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/unnerving

198 months ago

Medilingua Hungarica  See profile wrote:

filling up with

My comment:

saouler equal to souler

1. (transitive) To get (someone) drunk.
2. (transitive, literary) To fill up as if with food.
3. (transitive) To confuse or extenuate with an unending flow of something.
4. (transitive) To figuratively intoxicate or overexcite.
5. (reflexive) To get drunk.
6. (reflexive) To consume excessively of something; to gorge oneself on something.

[edit] Related terms

* soul

My references:

Wikipedia

the price policy is boring, tiresome

My comment:

soûlant
[sulS] adj F (personne) boring, tiresome

makes one dizzy/is discombobulating

My comment:

"Saouler" is a variation of "soûler," which means to make dizzy or giddy.

My references:

Larousse Advanced French/English Dictionary

Comments by other colleagues on this answer:

198 months ago

  See profile wrote:

Or maybwe, "makes one's head spin."

aggravating

My comment:

the pricing policy is aggravating, prices are outrageous
It's not easy to translate slang, I can't think of an equivalent English slang expression

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198 months ago

Claude Le Frapper  See profile wrote:

aggravating

My comment:

the pricing policy is aggravating, prices are outrageous
It's not easy to translate slang, I can't think of an equivalent English slang expression

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