Foro: Traducciones
February 12, 2024, 12:39 PM
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Foro: Traducciones
February 11, 2024, 08:03 PM
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Por cada
salíamos a una taberna por cada 175 individuos
Does this mean one of 175 taverns?
Is that a figurative or literal number?
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Foro: Traducciones
November 11, 2023, 12:08 AM
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Foro: Traducciones
November 10, 2023, 06:24 PM
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Foro: La gramática
December 21, 2022, 05:39 PM
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Foro: La gramática
December 20, 2022, 04:44 AM
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Tratara
A book I am reading contains
como si se tratara en un sueño
Should it be tratará
Could they mean future tense.
Doesn’t seem to fit
Why not just trata
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Foro: Modismos y Dichos
October 27, 2022, 04:36 AM
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Foro: Modismos y Dichos
October 20, 2022, 01:09 AM
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Foro: Modismos y Dichos
October 11, 2022, 05:40 AM
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Foro: Modismos y Dichos
October 07, 2022, 06:46 AM
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Foro: Modismos y Dichos
October 06, 2022, 04:17 AM
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La única cuerda
What does this mean?
¿ …. o era la única cuerda?
Could it be figuratively limited to a single musical note.
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Foro: El vocabulario
September 12, 2022, 07:13 AM
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Foro: El vocabulario
September 03, 2022, 07:21 AM
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Foro: El vocabulario
September 02, 2022, 06:34 AM
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Despedido
What does despedido mean in this extract from a novel.
The vehicle left the road and flew through the air landing in the water.
Is this a common usage?
“ estaba volando por los aires y salió...
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Foro: Traducciones
March 22, 2022, 12:28 AM
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Thank you
Thanks for responses
Makes perfect sense
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Foro: Traducciones
March 21, 2022, 04:46 AM
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Foro: El vocabulario
February 17, 2020, 04:18 AM
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Thank you Rusty
It seemed to me unlikely...
Thank you Rusty
It seemed to me unlikely that they threw something into his face so seems to me finding fault fits the situation better.
I often see literal translations that don't fit well but...
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Foro: El vocabulario
February 14, 2020, 07:44 PM
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Echaron en cara
Cuántas veces en los últimos años me echaron en cara las más distintas mujeres (sólo por no saber corresponder a sus sentimientos) que soy un engreído
Does this mean they have a look on their...
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Foro: Cultura
February 13, 2020, 11:17 PM
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Thank you for the responses.
I didn't get the...
Thank you for the responses.
I didn't get the impression of a wealthy neighborhood. It is set in Czechoslovakia in the communist period and the author is just commenting on the view from the cinema...
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Foro: Cultura
February 12, 2020, 04:21 AM
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Foro: Modismos y Dichos
January 20, 2020, 04:15 AM
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Foro: Modismos y Dichos
January 17, 2020, 03:37 PM
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con una sonrisa tirando a amarga
, con una sonrisa tirando a amarga
A search shows sonrisa amarga as a bitter or ironic smile, which makes sense but why " tirando a" . I assume amarga is an adjective so it just does not seem to...
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Foro: Traducciones
January 12, 2020, 12:13 AM
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Foro: Traducciones
January 11, 2020, 01:58 PM
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Foro: Traducciones
January 09, 2020, 06:38 PM
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¿Qué le cayó?
What does this mean?
It suggests. " What happened to him? " but I don't see how you get that and why would he think the other died, perhaps they usually only employ a new worker when the previous...
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