French terms for common electrical/engineering words ??

I can't help you with the words, but some formal material in regular old French (books or even a class) would probably be helpful.

Hello Tim,

It's for marine stuff but contains electrical words and you could ask the author listed for the electrical translations:

It may be best to buy a little booklet. Also, you could ask the folks on the French electronics newsgroup: fr.sci.electronique

It's ok over there to ask in English and indicate that you can read answers in French, explaining your situation like you did here. They should really know where to find a suitable dictionary since many of them do not speak English too well but are confronted with data sheets in English all day long. The publishing company "Langenscheidt" carries lots of specialty dictionaries between European languages so even a trip to a large book store in Tounis might help. Should be a short drive from Carthage.

And here I thought the Romans always claimed they had destroyed it...

Regards, Joerg

Hello Terry,

a écrit dans le message de news: snipped-for-privacy@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com...

Don't have such a list. As said by others myabe a book may help.

Maybe you can try with:

with the following steps:

1. Enter your text in the "Texte" area (up to 150 words)

1. Select translation ("Français vers Anglais" or "Anglais vers Français")

2. Select dictionary Electronique

That may help.

Switch = Interrupteur

Circuit Breaker = Disjoncteur

Puissance (?? Voltage or Current??)

Puissance = Power Voltage = Tension Current = Courant, Intensité

See above

-- Christian - Grenoble

Cool. Can you get ahold of a French-English English-French technical dictionary? I see some used for < $10, but shipping to Tunisia is more than that. Might not be 100% on electronics terms, but certainly better than nothing. You could probably figure out the more specialized stuff out by googling native French-language sites.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Hello Christian,

My favorite is "retro eclairage" for back light. It sounds so much nicer. And when you guys talk about a power supply and say "alimentation" I always become hungry.

Regards, Joerg

Thanks so much, Guys! Great pointers....

Joerg, The sailing dictionary is VERY helpful on a lot of things... (And, yes, the Romans did a VERY complete job of destroying Carthage, as the Emperor promised. But after only a hundred years or so, they rebuilt it, in a grand style, and there's a lot of that left, all over the country here. See:

Spehro, I just looked at Amazon for "English-French technical dictionary". Yikes! The first one is $260 ! I'm looking for used ones there; I should really buy one if I can find a decent used one...

Christian, Thanks for the immediate translations! And... Voila! I didn't KNOW about the dictionary CHOICE in Lycos, and it's very good, when set as you suggest to "electronique".

I think I have good solutions both short and long-term.

...But I will NOT be attempting this in Arabic...

Regards, Terry King ...On The Mediterranean in Carthage snipped-for-privacy@terryking.us snipped-for-privacy@acst.intl.tn

Hello Terry,

Thanks for the pics. I didn't know the Romans built circular docks for their war ships. Pretty cool. The sad thing is that they pretty much razed all their forests to build all these ships and the Italians are still paying the environmental price.

Regards, Joerg

Resistor = le Resisteur Capacitor = le Condensateur Inductor = le Inducteur Transistor = le Transisteur Transformer = le Transformateur

etc.

Good Luck! Rich

Heh. Once I was reading the ingredients of some Asian Ramen, and they called the noodles "alimentary paste".

I ate it anyway. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Hello Rich,

So then, l'ordinateur = ordinator?

Cheers, Joerg

"Les substance intelligente du monde Anglo".....

Ken

Perhaps this could be of some help also:

Rich Grise, but drunk a écrit :

Hello, things are not that easy in french, simply using the "eur" desinance is not the answer. Historical/language-political questions break this beautiful scheme. The traps : Resistor : in correct (teacher) french is ...résistor, its property "résistance" (measured in Ohms). Inductor=inductance, self(inductance) Capacitor= condensateur with property "capacité" Transistor=transistor (it came from USA, remember)

Greetings Peter

The best ever English-French-English dictionnary for any technical term is made by the Quebec Office of French Language and is available for free here:

The website itself is in French, but it's quite easy to understand that the first combobox at the top left is for source language, the second is for destination language and the edit box is for the word you want translated. Keep in mind this is for "terminology", hence for technical words only but NOT for every day words. For those you have

Hope this helps Cheers Olivier Sannier

I looked it up - more like DISordinator! ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Hello Peter,

But it was a close race with Dr.Mataré in Paris:

The correct French word in those days was "transistron". But Westinghouse closed the Paris lab since they believed that there was no market for the transistor. I almost spilled my coffee when I read that one for the first time.

Regards, Joerg