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Pay versus pay off

BobRitter

September 24, 2017 10:37 PM

Pay versus pay off

Learn With Oliver:
Él trabaja muy duro para pagar sus deudas.
He works very hard to pay off his debts.

"He works very hard to pay his debts" seem better. How do we get from "pay" to "pay off" with pagar. The 2 sentences have quite different meaning. At least in English.

Como siempre, gracias. Bob

JPablo

September 25, 2017 12:11 AM

Well "to pay" would just be "pagar", "to pay off" one could say "saldar (la deuda)" "liquidar" "pagar completamente"...

Oxford to the rescue, you can see other connotations here as well,

https://es.oxforddictionaries.com/tr...panish/pay_off

BobRitter

September 25, 2017 03:43 PM

Gracias JPablo.
Como yo pensó. Saldar parece ser el mejor opción por "to pay off".

Crecí en la valle San Fernando.

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