English translation of "la calle Grande" - "Main Street"

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169 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	Spanish > English
Subject:	Sciences / Non-fiction books
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	la calle Grande
Context:	Atravesamos la ciudad baja y por la calle Grande entramos en la parte sur de la ciudad...
Keywords:	...alta, entre puestos todavía abiertos y patrullas de vigilancia.

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169 months ago

Rita Solis Radius - Conseil en Création Littéraire wrote:

The big street / The main street / The principal street

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169 months ago

canary admin services wrote:

la calle Grande

My comment:

The whole sentence would be: "We crossed the lower part of the city and we entered the south of the city via calle Grande."
As it is the name of the street, technically, you wouldn't translate it. If you were to translate it, you could use

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169 months ago

canary admin services wrote:

Sorry, I accidentally clicked send before finishing: If you were to translate the actual name, Main Street would probably be the best choice.

169 months ago

trilinguallady wrote:

The Large Road or The Broad Street

My comment:

Could be Wide Road. I see the word Grande is capitalised so it means that the road named for how it looks. In Barbados there is a road called Broad Street because it was the biggest road in the whole of Barbados.

169 months ago

trilinguallady wrote:

Main Street

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