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سيعود أدراجه

English translation: he would get back home

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Arabic term or phrase:سيعود أدراجه
English translation:he would get back home
Entered by: Z-Translations Translator

16:58 Dec 10, 2020
Arabic to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / Contemporary novel
Arabic term or phrase: سيعود أدراجه
خرج مهدي في ليلة ظلماء متخفيا بعد أن قطع تذكرة سفرة دولية، جدة كراتشي، أو جدة بيشاور لا أدري بالضبط إلى مدينة باكستانية عزم السفر، ومن ثم إلى أفغانستان. خرج برفقة صديقيه كما خطط القاضي محسن. كان في بال أبي أن مهدي سيعود أدراجه فيما لو هم بالسفر ووجد اسمه في القائمة السوداء. لم يكن يعلم بالخطة "ب".
Verity Roat
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:30
he would get back home
Explanation:
"he will get back home if he travels and finds his name on the blacklist"

He would get back home if he traveled because he would find his name on the blacklist.
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Z-Translations Translator
Local time: 23:30
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2he'll go back
ABDESSAMAD BINAOUI
5He will return back
Medhat Mohammed
5he would get back home
Z-Translations Translator
5Will come back shortly
Ateequr Rahman
5Mahdi would backtrack
Ali Cherni


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
he'll go back


Explanation:
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ABDESSAMAD BINAOUI
Morocco
Local time: 13:30
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in ArabicArabic, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 47

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lotfi Abdolhaleem: يعود إلى حيث ذهب
12 mins
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agree  Youssef Chabat
2 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
He will return back


Explanation:
He will return back

Medhat Mohammed
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:30
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
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12 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
he would get back home


Explanation:
"he will get back home if he travels and finds his name on the blacklist"

He would get back home if he traveled because he would find his name on the blacklist.

Z-Translations Translator
Local time: 23:30
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 68
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21 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Will come back shortly


Explanation:
درج ، زدراج simply means streets, and here the meaning will be, he will have to return to his streets where he has started the journey, and this is expression for returning or coming back.

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Ateequr Rahman
Germany
Local time: 14:30
Native speaker of: Native in UrduUrdu
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2 days 7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Mahdi would backtrack


Explanation:
Context is literary. One needs to preserve the idiomacy of the ST.

Example sentence(s):
  • وبعد ذلك عاد ادراجه، مطلقا النار بشكل متواصل.
  • Then he backtracked, firing all the way.
Ali Cherni
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:30
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
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