On va tous y passer

Bonjour tout le monde!

Mon programme préfére à la station radio "France Inter" est "On va tous y passer". Il y a beaucoup de personnes intéressantes, les histoires intéressantes. la comedie, etc et je trouve que je comprends beaucoup de la francais, qui n'est pas vrai de "Engrenages" a la television - c'est plus difficile pour moi! Mais comment doit-on traduire "On va tous y passer" a l'anglais.

My own interpretation is something like: -

"Let's all spend (some time together)", where "some time together" is just implied.

But I am probably totally wrong!

Merci beaucoup pour vos suggestions!

Jon

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EducatorPermalink Reply by George Hunt on March 12, 2013 at 5:08pm

Literally it seems to mean "we will all go there" -but I am not confident that I understand what is intended.

By the way do you know how I can download past episodes of Engrenages (ideally with French subtitles) -I am not based in the UK?

I have downloaded the Captvty.fr application but Engrenages doesn't seem to be included at the moment (I suppose it would be on the Canal+ channel....).

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Permalink Reply by Jon Head on March 12, 2013 at 5:23pm

Thanks for your reply George.

Past episodes of Engrenages are available from BBC iPlayer: -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0072wk9

But I don't know if the download links are available outside the UK. Also, I assume they will come with English subtitles, but probably not French?

Good luck anyway. It's a really good series, but I find I can only understand odd sentences here and there, whereas I understand a lot more on "France Inter"! I'll just keep working on it!

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Permalink Reply by Chantal Savignat on March 12, 2013 at 7:18pm

I can't translate for you

maybe it will be helpful : the title of this program means usually that everyone will be attacked (nobody will be saved).

It is often used to say that everybody have to die a day, nobody can escape.

the idea is that everybody had to suffer from something and nobody can escape.

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Permalink Reply by Jon Head on March 13, 2013 at 9:41am

Merci beaucoup Chantal - je pense que je comprends maintenant!

Yes, it would be meaningless doing a literal translation, but it sounds very similar in meaning to the English phrases "It comes to us all" or "It will come to pass".