Être utile à

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Hi all,

Should "être utile à" be translated as "to be useful for" or "to be useful to"?

Context: "Veuillez nous fournir la liste des documents utiles à notre mission"

Many thanks

(Note that I have found "être utile à" in the dictionnary but it is translated as "to be useful" without specifying the preposition. It is not funny for a non native speaker to search everywhere the right preposition associated to a word and not to find it, while it is probably the most complicated part).

 

[jetset]

useful documents for our assignment.

 

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useful documents for our assignment.

Merci ! Can we say that the rule is "useful for something" and "useful to someone"?

 

[boterham]

documents required for the assignment or maybe for our mission, depends on context...

useful to someone: yes.

 

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Thank you boterham, your reply will be most useful to me!