How do you say "Melting Metal" in Swedish ?

[RogerB]

pretty simple, that's what I would like to find out.

Thanks !

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[Marcus Strömberg]

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:24:11 -0700 skrev RogerB:

pretty simple, that's what I would like to find out.

It can be translated in at least two ways, each one of the translations
having it's own meaning in swedish:

Smälta metall (verb)

Smältande metall (noun)



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[Eugene Holman]

In article <[email protected]>,
=?iso-8859-1?q?Marcus_Str=F6mberg?= <[email protected]> wrote:

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:24:11 -0700 skrev RogerB:

pretty simple, that's what I would like to find out.

It can be translated in at least two ways, each one of the translations
having it's own meaning in swedish:

Smälta metall (verb)

(att) smälta metall = (to) melt metal

Det är svårt att smälta metall. = "It is difficult to melt metal."
Att smälta metall är svårt. = "Melting metal/To melt metal is difficult."

Smältande metall (noun)

smältande metall = melting metal = metal that is melting

Tanken är full av smältande metall. = "The tank is full of melting
metal/metal that is melting."

Regards,
Eugene Holman

[unglued]

Eugene Holman wrote:

In article <[email protected]>,
=?iso-8859-1?q?Marcus_Str=F6mberg?= <[email protected]> wrote:

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:24:11 -0700 skrev RogerB:

pretty simple, that's what I would like to find out.

It can be translated in at least two ways, each one of the translations
having it's own meaning in swedish:

Smälta metall (verb)

(att) smälta metall = (to) melt metal

Note bene, there is of course the word smelt in English, as in "He was
a smelter at the smeltery"

Det är svårt att smälta metall. = "It is difficult to melt metal."
Att smälta metall är svårt. = "Melting metal/To melt metal is difficult."

Smältande metall (noun)

smältande metall = melting metal = metal that is melting

Tanken är full av smältande metall. = "The tank is full of melting
metal/metal that is melting."

Regards,
Eugene Holman

[A fish called??]

-- and you all forgot - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smelt

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Eugene Holman wrote:
In article <[email protected]>,
=?iso-8859-1?q?Marcus_Str=F6mberg?= <[email protected]> wrote:

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:24:11 -0700 skrev RogerB:

pretty simple, that's what I would like to find out.

It can be translated in at least two ways, each one of the translations
having it's own meaning in swedish:

Smälta metall (verb)

(att) smälta metall = (to) melt metal

Note bene, there is of course the word smelt in English, as in "He was
a smelter at the smeltery"



Det är svårt att smälta metall. = "It is difficult to melt metal."
Att smälta metall är svårt. = "Melting metal/To melt metal is difficult."

Smältande metall (noun)

smältande metall = melting metal = metal that is melting

Tanken är full av smältande metall. = "The tank is full of melting
metal/metal that is melting."

Regards,
Eugene Holman

[Marcus Strömberg]

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:35:41 +0300 skrev Eugene Holman:

(att) smälta metall = (to) melt metal

Det är svårt att smälta metall. = "It is difficult to melt metal."
Att smälta metall är svårt. = "Melting metal/To melt metal is difficult."

Exactly! Remember that the infinitive marker isn't mandatory in (written)
swedish. That's why an english expression like "melting metal" without any
context can be translated into swedish in different ways, each translation
having it's own meaning.


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[Marcus Strömberg]

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 01:31:40 +0000 skrev Marcus Strömberg:

Smältande metall (noun)

That is, an adjective (or adverb, depending of what comes next) plus a
noun.



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