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186 months ago

Geea (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

French > English

Subject:

Arts / Entertainment

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

En courant les concerts

Context:

En courant les concerts en compagnie de son oncle, le jeune homme imagine bien vite

Keywords:

... une carrière de musicien // Running to concerts?? Is that what they are trying to say?? TIA.

 

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running from one concert to the other

186 months ago

Claude Le Frapper  See profile wrote:

making the rounds of the concert halls

My comment:

that's how I'd translate that

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186 months ago

Claude Le Frapper  See profile wrote:

making the rounds of the concert halls

My comment:

that's how I'd translate that

The asker rated this answer best

186 months ago

Claude Le Frapper  See profile wrote:

By getting in touch with concert

186 months ago

Claude Le Frapper  See profile wrote:

going from concert to concert

My comment:

I think this could be a good idiomatic way of expressing this.

186 months ago

Sasha2  See profile wrote:

going from concert to concert

My comment:

I think this could be a good idiomatic way of expressing this.

186 months ago

Sasha2  See profile wrote:

doing the rounds of all the concerts

186 months ago

Medilingua Hungarica  See profile wrote:

Visiting, attending

My comment:

The sentence is too short to be able to say if the young musician attended (participated at) concerts as a performing musician or he simply was there to hear other musicians becoming later one himself.

186 months ago

Medilingua Hungarica  See profile wrote:

Because he runs off to concerts with his uncle

Comments by other colleagues on this answer:

186 months ago

  See profile wrote:

"Because he would run off to concerts" would probably be better.

186 months ago

Isabel Ruivo  See profile wrote:

By attending all concerts

186 months ago

Isabel Ruivo  See profile wrote:

As he kept going to concerts with his uncle