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170 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

French > English

Subject:

Other

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

taches de naissance

Context:

Le destin a voulu que le grand-père de Tony reconnaisse mes taches de naissance et que mon

Keywords:

...enfer recommence....This guy, who was a member of the SS and executed prsoners at Dachau during World War II, is referring to the fact that he was disguised and passed off as a Jew so that the Anercian army would not arrest him when they liberated the camp.

 

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170 months ago

  See profile wrote:

birth origins

My comment:

I think "taches" is meant figuratively here

170 months ago

Claude Le Frapper  See profile wrote:

birth origins

My comment:

I think "taches" is meant figuratively here

170 months ago

David Edwards Translation and Training  See profile wrote:

birthmarks

My comment:

can be either taches or marques de naissance in French I think. So nothing unusual here.

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170 months ago

Jennifer White  See profile wrote:

isn't that identical to my entry?

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170 months ago

Jennifer White  See profile wrote:

birth mark

My comment:

seems easy enough to me

My references:

dictionaries.........

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170 months ago

Jennifer White  See profile wrote:

plural here