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138 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

Spanish > English

Subject:

General

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

café moreno

Context:

En innumerables ocasiones era Germán quién se hacía el desayuno. Un simple café negro sin azúcar - en caso de que no hubiese moreno, como la mayoría de veces - una Magdalena algo rancia por llevar tantos días en un bote de plastic sin tapa y un zumo de naranja de la nevera.
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"Coffee with cream"? Thanks

 

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138 months ago

Piero de Rosetta  See profile wrote:

(comprehension mistake)

My comment:

The thing is the adjective "moreno" does not refer to the noun coffee, but to "sugar". There is one healthy, tasty kind of sugar, different from the refined, white pouder also known as 'sugar'; in Spanish, the name for that first healthy BROWN sugar is "azúcar moreno". So the translation for that whole sentence would be something like: <<Just a sugar-free black coffee -in case there was no brown sugar, as usual...>>

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138 months ago

Clara Fernández  See profile wrote:

Could the reference be to the sugar instead of the coffee? ie. "azucar moreno" = brown sugar.

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138 months ago

  See profile wrote:

I thought it might mean coffee with cream because "moreno" can mean "tan".

138 months ago

Sylvia J. Andrade  See profile wrote:

This definitely refers to the sugar = brown sugar