"Tu m'aides à en attacher autour des cadeaux ?"
Translation:Can you help me tie some of it around the presents?
July 3, 2020
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'Around' translates, in this case, to "autour de". So 'around the presents' = "autour des (de + les) cadeaux".
'... tie it' would refer to one definite unit and would rather translate "... l'attacher". Since "en" refers to more than one or an indefinite amount of someting, '... tie some/some of it' is a better translation.
The non-sequitur / randomness of these sentences makes these extra difficult. I struggled with translating this one simply because it has no context. I got it right but even when I had it right I stared at the sentence forever thinking, no that can't be right. But stuck with it because all my alternatives were equally odd.