Russian term
DELVING into DETAIL
Native in: Russian 
Works in: English to Russian, Russian, Russian to English, and 2 more.
пока не попадал к тому, у кого
Контекст:
Обычный камень ходил по рукам, пока не попадал в руки какого-нибудь особо достойного человека, и тогда он превращался в волшебный.
Плохо выстраивается конструкция - пособите, please!
Proposed translations
Clients you need for the work you love
Native in: English , Russian
Works in: English, Hebrew, Russian
until it reached a person, in whose hands it turned...
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Anneta Vysotskaya
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thank you
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Alexander Taguiltsev
7 hrs
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thanks
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2rush
9 hrs
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thank you
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Drunya
: Без запятой :-) (restrictive, or defining, relative clause)
14 hrs
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until someone truly worthy would get a hold of it
United Kingdom
Translator since 1953
Native in: English
Works in: Russian to English, German to English, English
until it reached the one who enabled it...
I'm not altogether happy with that. I see the problem with "у кого". It would be easier if this person took an active role so that you could say "the one who turned it into the Magic Stone". Maybe you could say that, if you don't think it's straying too far from the original.
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Kirill Semenov
: `until it reached the one in whose hands it turned into...' Why not? Or, if not -- why? + Thank you :)
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Why not indeed? I like that version.
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Angeliki Kotsidou (X)
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Thank you.
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2rush
11 hrs
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Thank you.
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Drunya
: with Kirill
16 hrs
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Thank you.
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gtreyger (X)
: Agree with Kirill
18 hrs
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Thank you.
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Andrey Belousov (X)
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1 day 1 hr
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Thank you.
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Sara Noss
1 day 2 hrs
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Thank you.
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Russian Federation
also an engineer
Native in: Russian
Works in: English to Russian, Russian to English
till fell into arms of a person...
United Kingdom
Royal Experience in Translation
Native in: Russian , Ukrainian
Works in: English to Russian, English to Ukrainian, Ukrainian to English, and 1 more.
the one whose touch turned it
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Note added at 2005-05-03 17:31:19 (GMT)
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Another way around it could be:
...until it found the right one and could turn into...
Software Engineering background
Native in: Russian
Works in: English, Russian, Russian to English, and 1 more.
until it would end up in the hands that would turn...
or: eventually ending up...
China
Business Service For Foreigners in China
Native in: Chinese , English
Works in: English to Chinese, Chinese to English, Chinese to Russian, and 27 more.
until it reached the person ,from whom
Kyrgyzstan
Speed and quality
Native in: Russian
Works in: English to Kirghiz, English to Russian, Russian to English, and 1 more.
It changes hands until finding itself with a person endowed
Stone
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