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To French speakers: what does this mean?

vous ete de Dell 1998?

I've tried using an online translator but it doesn't seem to make sense.

Thanks and rep for the first person to give me an accurate translation of course :smile:

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Reply 1

Oasis Jnr

you have dell 1998? :dontknow:

Reply 2

Rainbowl

yea what Oasis said...

Reply 3

Ewan

Why did I read that as French knickers? :facepalm2:

Something wrong with me today :sigh:

Reply 4

SophieWofy

I thought 'vous etes' was 'you are' and 'vous avez' is 'you have'...could mean the same thing, makes more sense translating it as 'you have' anyway, one of those lost-in-translation mistakes.

Reply 5

Chucklefiend

SophieWofy

I thought 'vous etes' was 'you are' and 'vous avez' is 'you have'...could mean the same thing, makes more sense translating it as 'you have' anyway, one of those lost-in-translation mistakes.

On the translation website it came up with something like: Are you summer of dell 1998? Not sure, none of the suggestions so far seem to fit the context.

Reply 6

Oasis Jnr

Chucklefiend

On the translation website it came up with something like: Are you summer of dell 1998? Not sure, none of the suggestions so far seem to fit the context.

it can't be summer as the 'e' on ete have no accents :p:

and why do you want to know it so badly?

Reply 7

KTpie

Chucklefiend

On the translation website it came up with something like: Are you summer of dell 1998? Not sure, none of the suggestions so far seem to fit the context.

What IS the context?

Reply 8

Xurvi

Doesn't mean anything.
There's one or more typo, context will help.

Reply 9

nuodai

I imagine that by "ete" they meant "êtes" (i.e. 'you are') rather than "été" ('summer'). What context is this in? Because that just means "you are of Dell 1998" which doesn't make any sense in French or English... is there any more to the sentence?

Reply 10

username295146

Do you have a Dell 1998?

Reply 11

JW92

I think it's supposed to be "Vous êtes", so literally it translates as "Are you of Dell 1998?" So, I'd think it probably means what Oasis Jnr. said.

Reply 12

Xurvi

Even if it was "vous êtes", it still doesn't make sense. Hence why the context would help greatly.

Reply 13

Chucklefiend

Xurvi

Even if it was "vous êtes", it still doesn't make sense. Hence why the context would help greatly.

The context is two people who find out they went to the same school when they were kids and start having a conversation about old times. There is no mention of a computer or computers at any other point, so the whole 'dell' thing is really confusing :confused:

Reply 14

nuodai

Chucklefiend

Oh! Perhaps Dell is a school. "De" can also mean "from", so it makes sense for it to mean "are you from Dell?" (i.e. did you graduate from Dell (the school) in 1998).

Reply 15

The Cornerstone

Chucklefiend

vous ete de Dell 1998?

I've tried using an online translator but it doesn't seem to make sense.

Thanks and rep for the first person to give me an accurate translation of course :smile:

If you mean 'vous etes' that's 'you are', maybe in the context of computers then that would mean your computer is Dell 1998, but I can't say much about it.

Reply 16

Xurvi

Chucklefiend

I figured as much, the only context in which it would sort of make sense would be to say that somebody was working for Dell in 1998.
Dell could be a school, but I never heard of such a school, so if it is, it's probably some little primary school, not a uni or something.

Reply 17

autobusas

Maybe it really means "Are you of Dell 1998?" and the person who said it wanted to ask the other person if they went to Dell scholl in 1998 or if they graduated it in 1998? Dell could be the name of that school, couldn't it?

Reply 18

The Cornerstone

Chucklefiend

Then if Dell is maybe a school, then they are asking if they come from the class of 1998 at Dell.

Reply 19

Chucklefiend

nuodai

Oh! Perhaps Dell is a school. "De" can also mean "from", so it makes sense for it to mean "are you from Dell?" (i.e. did you graduate from Dell (the school) in 1998).