Éste último

marmoset

February 20, 2012 12:23 AM

Éste último

¿Cómo se traducirían la frase "Éste último" que encontré al leer un artículo?

"WASHINGTON, DC - Un agente federal de inmigración falleció en Long Beach, California, cuando, tras abrir fuego contra el supervisor de su oficina en una disputa, un tercer agente le disparó para defender a éste último, informó este viernes la cadena CBS."

CBS said on Friday that a federal immigration agent passed away in Long Beach California when, after opening fire on his office supervisor during an argument, a third agent shot him to defend _____ (my best guess is "the latter" but I think that's not quite right).

Thanks in advance.

:)

chileno

February 20, 2012 06:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marmoset (Post 122168)

¿Cómo se traducirían la frase "Éste último" que encontré al leer un artículo?

"WASHINGTON, DC - Un agente federal de inmigración falleció en Long Beach, California, cuando, tras abrir fuego contra el supervisor de su oficina en una disputa, un tercer agente le disparó para defender a éste último, informó este viernes la cadena CBS."

CBS said on Friday that a federal immigration agent passed away in Long Beach California when, after opening fire on his office supervisor during an argument, a third agent shot him to defend _____ (my best guess is "the latter":good: but I think that's not quite right).

Thanks in advance.

:)

:):):)

wrholt

February 20, 2012 10:52 AM

Yes, "the latter".

In contexts where English uses the words "former" and "latter", Spanish frequently uses the demonstrative pronouns "este/éste" = "the latter" ("this one", the one most recently mentioned) and "aquel/aquél" ("that one", the one least recently mentioned), with appropriate agreement for gender and number.

marmoset

February 21, 2012 03:28 AM

Yay!

Thanks.

:D

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