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Conges terminology question
189 months ago
JENN64 
asked this question:
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Language pair: |
Spanish > English |
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Subject: |
Other |
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Level of diffculty: |
Easy / medium |
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Word or term in question: |
Los cuatro hermanos caminamos por la calle va |
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Context: |
Los cuatro hermanos caminamos por la calle vacía. |
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Keywords: |
hermanos here refers to feminine and masculine boys and girls how would we translate it as siblings or any other ideas..... |
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Answers on this question
The four of us, brothers and sisters, walked along the empty street
My comment:
'Siblings' would also be fine unless it is a child narrator, when it would perhaps not sound quite so natural.
188 months ago
Mario
wrote:
The four siblings we walked through the empty street
My comment:
The four siblings we walked through the empty street
189 months ago
chrisbritingles
wrote:
They walked along the empty street
My comment:
Use the appropriate pronoun or name them individually, dependes on the type of story.
My references:
''plain speech is not bad manners''
KISS = Keep It Simple Stupid
and life experience
189 months ago
chrisbritingles
wrote:
we all four brothers walked through the empty street
189 months ago
chrisbritingles
wrote:
we, the four siblings, are walking along the deserted street
189 months ago
Karin Monteiro-Zwahlen
wrote:
The four of us, brothers and sisters, walk along the (stone-)empty street
189 months ago
Karin Monteiro-Zwahlen
wrote:
We four siblings walk along the empty street.
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