fake hello

14:29 Oct 8, 2021
English to French translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
English term or phrase: fake hello
Can you help me translate this sentence into French please?

She gives a fake hello, her roaming eyes and tightlipped smile more curious than anything.
Catherine Meunier
France
Local time: 10:59


Summary of answers provided
5(Elle lança) un bonjour qui sonnait faux
logosarada
4En faisant semblant de saluer
JACQUES LHOMME
3 +1« Bonjour » commercial
Tony M
4un salut fake
Anastasia Kalantzi
3 -1un salut faux
Lisa Rosengard


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15 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
un salut faux


Explanation:
Elle salut faussement, ses yeux errants avec un sourire aux lèvres troits, plus curieusement que rien d'autre.
Ce serait possible aussi écrire 'ellle donne un bonjour faux', mais je préfère écrire 'elle salut faussement'.

(an: She greets falsely (or: 'she gnves a false helllo'), with roaming or wandering eyes and a tight-lipped smile, more curiously than anything else.)

Lisa Rosengard
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:59
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  ormiston: This is barely French
3 hrs

disagree  Germaine: Tout ça ne se dit pas en FR. Essayez de lire les classiques jeunesse - Daudet, Fournier, St-Exupéry, les contes d'Anderson ou de Grim - pour vous faire aux sonorités et agencements des mots. Comparez avec l'anglais pour mieux comprendre la syntaxe.
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1 day 3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
En faisant semblant de saluer


Explanation:
Une suggestion. cordialement

JACQUES LHOMME
France
Local time: 10:59
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4
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1 day 17 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
« Bonjour » commercial


Explanation:
Just like a « sourire commercial » !

Tony M
France
Local time: 10:59
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 48

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Samuel Clarisse
1 hr
  -> Merci, Samuel !
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9 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
un salut fake


Explanation:
On pourrait très bien l'utiliser quotidiennement sous la forme d'un anglicisme. Et pourquoi pas? Parfois les choses les plus simples sont celles qui ne changent pas d'une langue à l'autre...

Example sentence(s):
  • Cette vidéo est clairement un fake: on voit qu'ils ont rajouté des effets spéciaux.
  • Elle ne me fit qu'un salut fake et s'en alla.
Anastasia Kalantzi
Greece
Local time: 11:59
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Native speaker of: Greek
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12 days   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
(Elle lança) un bonjour qui sonnait faux


Explanation:
Voilà !

logosarada
France
Local time: 10:59
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Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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