just some short finnish - english translation or check if...

kukkuluuruu · Post by **kukkuluuruu** » Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:41 pm

... there are other possibilities.

Minä tiedän mitä se on vuodeosasto, mutta ...

i found as translation in english only "ward"; isn't
there some other word that seems to describe my osasto better,
well, not mine, i am not ready for that yet...

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snowcelt · Post by **snowcelt** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:56 am

bed department?

No, ward sounds perdectly fine if you want to translate to english. "I work on ward 6" etc.

kevin.

Hank W. · Post by **Hank W.** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 10:22 am

kukkuluuruu wrote:.
some other word that seems to describe my osasto better,

closed ward, padded ward....

osasto is one of these words that you can use for about a dozen words; it depends on the context what it is: hospital osasto = ward ; factory/store osasto = department ; ship osasto = compartment ; military osasto = platoon/battallion (a division) etc.

Here's the "official" translations about medical facilities in case you need them: http://www.laakariliitto.fi/julkaisut/t ... aatio.html

alloydog · Post by **alloydog** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:03 am

"padded ward.... "
Padded cell

PeterF · Post by **PeterF** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:26 am

alloydog wrote:"padded ward.... "
Padded cell

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They're coming to take me away, HO HO HEE HEE HA HA
To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I'll be happy to see
Those nice, young men
In their clean, white coats
And they're coming to take me away, Ha-haaa!

To the happy home
With trees and flowers and chirping birds
And basket weavers who sit and smile
And twiddle their thumbs and toes
And they're coming to take me away, Ha-haaa!

To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I'll be happy to see
Those nice, young men
In their clean, white coats
And they're coming to take me away, Ha-haaa!

strawberry · Post by **strawberry** » Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:47 pm

A vuodeosasto is just a ward. However, you can specify it if you wish by adding e.g. surgical/paediatric/post-natal

or whatever you need. Or perhaps "for the chronically ill"/"for the elderly"/"for the old and frail"... Or, you could go around it somehow, if need still be, and use the term "in-patient" in some form? "I know what it's like, being an in-patient". Not quite the same, though.

Is it a novel you're translating?

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