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[belacane.livejournal.com]

how would one say in russian all of whom, in the context such as:

"I was looking at the children, all of whom were wearing purple underwear".



thx!


note: The sentence above is just a random example I used to put the phrase "all of whom" into some context so it would be easier to find a more correct variant in russian. Yeah.. and now that I think about it, it does sound somewhat vulgar... but it's what came off the top of my neighbors head.

Comments

[gordin.livejournal.com]

Каждый из которых

Я смотрел на детей, на каждом из которых было сиреневое бельё.

[oryx_and_crake]

This is grammatically correct but sounds a little awkward.

[berzerg.livejournal.com]

I'd put it like "которые все".

[berzerg.livejournal.com]

in such context. This example is translated as gordin wrote.

[platonicus.livejournal.com]

+1

[msk01.livejournal.com]

Я смотрел на всех детей, которые были одеты в сереневые трусики.

Or a little more Russian:

Я смотрел на детей в сереневых трусиках.

[msk01.livejournal.com]

Упс. сиреневые ;)

[berzerg.livejournal.com]

It sounds silly ^))) You mean were looking only at children who had purple underwear. Do you have children-in-purple-underwear filter?

[oscar-6.livejournal.com]

This is incorrect. It means "I was looking at all the children wearing purple underwear".

В вашем переводе получилось, что человек смотрел на всех детей, одетых в сиреневое бельё (а на других не смотрел). А в оригинале -- он смотрел на детей, и на всех них было сиреневое бельё -- почувствуйте разницу.

[padruka1988.livejournal.com]

I'd like to know why you were looking at children in purple underwear???

But yeah, I second what msk01 said. Я смотрел на всех детей, которые были в сиреневых турсиках is the same but a little less formal.

[padruka1988.livejournal.com]

трусиках*

[apredeus.livejournal.com]

nope, this is wrong :)

the first comment contains the correct answer.

[belacane.livejournal.com]

completely random sentence generated by the person who happened to be sitting next to me.

thanks =)

[whitest-owl.livejournal.com]

Я смотрел на детей. Все они были в сиреневом белье.
I think, that would be a little better...

[joliecanard.livejournal.com]

Berzerg's is the one that best conveys the English meaning. So:
Я смотрел на детей, которые все были в пурпурных/фиолетовых белье.

[joliecanard.livejournal.com]

oops, пурпурном/фиолетовом

[oryx_and_crake]

I second that

[belacane.livejournal.com]

that was the variant I'd initially thought of.. but i wasn't sure how right it was.

(obviously the sentence has nothing to do with what i'm actually writing about... I asked the person next to me for a sentence containing that phrase, and they gave me that =P)

[joliecanard.livejournal.com]

whew, I was worried there for a moment! ;) But now I'm kinda wondering about the person next to you if that was the first sentence they thought of...

[belacane.livejournal.com]

well... maybe you'd be worried about them regardless =p

[berkdima.livejournal.com]

I'm shocked. Is it so difficult to translate into Russian? The correct variant is Я смотрел на детей, все из которых были в сиреневых трусиках. Also possible Я смотрел на детей, каждый из которых был в сиреневом белье, but it's sounds much more formal. I'm Russian.

Help

[berkdima.livejournal.com]

If you need some help, you always can ask me. And in return, could you please help me in translation of the text from Russian into English? Just correct my variant. U can easily find it in my journal.

Re: Help

[belacane.livejournal.com]

sure.
I can do that once I finish my term paper.

[belacane.livejournal.com]

I wasn't looking for a translation of the whole sentence... just of the particular phrase "all of whom", which is quite precise, and I wanted for it to be as smooth and close to 'normal' russian as possible.

которые все popped into my mind at first, but I wasn't sure that translated how i wanted it to.