Translating Modal Verbs 
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Traduire les verbes modaux du français vers le finnois
Translating Modal Verbs From French into Finnish

Author(s): Mihai Ichim
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: UNIVERSITATEA »ȘTEFAN CEL MARE« SUCEAVA
Keywords: translation; adaptation; modal; possibility; probability;

Summary/Abstract: In the present paper, the author compares an original text written in French with its translation into Finnish. He analyses the translation of the French modal verbs which are expressing the possibility and the probability into Finnish. The original text Courrier de Finlande written by Philippe Guicheteau was translated into Finnish by Jouni Kuurne – Sunnuntaikirjeitä Suomesta.

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