 Translation - Spanish-English - Caer está permitido.. levantarse es obligatorio
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Category Sentence - Daily life | Caer está permitido.. levantarse es obligatorio | | Source language: Spanish
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| Falling down is allowed.. getting back up is mandatory | TranslationEnglish
Translated by  goncin | Target language: English
Falling down is allowed.. getting back up is mandatory |
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Last validated or edited by dramati - 8 March 2008 17:21
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4 March 2008 14:32 | | | Hi Goncin,
I was just wondering if "to get back up" (or getting back up) would not be more appropriate? It's just a suggestion, as it is not specifically implied in the Spanish version. But I think it is like the difference between "se lever" and "se relever"
Bises
Tantine
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4 March 2008 14:51 | | | | | |
4 March 2008 16:00 | | 
goncinNumber of messages: 3706 | Yes, Tantine, the sense of "get back up" is so implicit in Spanish I didn't ever figure it out. I think Spanish don't have a verb for that, as we in Portuguese don't have either.
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5 March 2008 15:22 | | | Validating 
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Tantine | | |
7 March 2008 23:17 | | | I think the gerund would be better than the infinitive in both of these cases: falling and getting back up or getting back on one's feet. | | |
8 March 2008 00:34 | | | I agree with you Kafetzou 
Thanks for your nice suggestion.
Do you want to edit Goncin?
Then I will validate.
Bises
Tantine | | |
8 March 2008 05:00 | | | Falling down is allowed... | | |
8 March 2008 06:00 | | | Falling down is allowed, getting back up is mandatory. | | |
9 March 2008 14:47 | | | Failure is not falling down, it is not getting up again (Mary Pickford ) |
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