Swedish term
ett tusental studenter
| 3 +6 | around a thousand students |
Matt Bibby
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| 5 +2 | some one thousand students |
John Krause
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| 3 +1 | a thousand or so students |
George Hopkins
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| 3 | over a thousand students |
Deane Goltermann
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Non-PRO (2): Christopher Schröder, Helen Johnson
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Proposed translations
United Kingdom
around a thousand students
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Agneta Pallinder
: Yes, definitely - cf "ett tiotal" (about ten), "ett hundratal" (about a hundred)
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Thanks Agneta!
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Didier Declercq (X)
: Yes. Here is an article that has both: https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/OnJbGq/tusentals-fransk...
4 hrs
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Thanks :)
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Michele Fauble
4 hrs
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Thanks :)
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Sven Petersson
5 hrs
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Thanks Sven!
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Anna Herbst
14 hrs
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Thanks :)
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Helen Johnson
: Just poetic licence I imagine
2 days 1 hr
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Sweden
Easy reading - Good writing
Native in: English 
, Swedish
Works in: Swedish to English
over a thousand students
| ok. that's a good compromise. |
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Hugh Curtis
: over a thousand or [so] students
37 mins
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Thanks, Hugh! Right more or less...
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Anna Herbst
: It could be just under 1000 as well. A thousand or so...
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Right, more ore less...approximations are always that, even in Swedish. And here we're trying to be precise? But 'ett tiotal' is hardly ever less than ten, 'ett hundratal,' well, less than 100 sometimes, but not very often... how many is many?
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a thousand or so students
some one thousand students
More than a thousand would be "drygt tusen" and less than a thousand would be "knappt tusen."
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George Hopkins
: Although 'knappt tusen' means 'barely a thousand' not less than...
15 hrs
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Helen Johnson
: Yes, nothing wrong with that
1 day 20 hrs
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Discussion
And another way of saying around a thousand students would be "tusentalet studenter".
- am I missing something? (or is the original written ambiguous?)