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If you spend more time than you should looking for a Spanish word, it may be because we just don’t have such a word in our language. Most of the time, this is not too much of a problem. We would be able to understand it if you just explained the word to us. However, trying to put the entire meaning into one single word is just impossible most of the time.
Hola Blanca, interesante artículo. Me detuve en el caso de la palabra procrastination, en Perú la he escuchado como procrastinación que entiendo puede ser una adaptación del inglés pero se entiende la idea "dejar para más tarde o postergar alguna acción" que también es asociada al "síndrome del estudiante" (<a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliyahu_M._Goldratt" title="Eliyahu M. Goldratt">Eliyahu M. Goldratt</a>, en su libro <a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadena_Cr%C3%ADtica" class="mw-redirect" title="Cadena Crítica">Cadena Crítica</a>).
Saludos,
Hi Blanca,
A really interesting article. Another common English word which is difficult to translate directly into Spanish would be the verb 'to look forward'. We usually try to translate it as 'estoy deseando' o 'no veo el momento de' but I think that we always have the feeling that it doesn't work completly well. Best wishes
Está bueno el artículo. Me llama la atención que había visto un vídeo de Superholly (o cómo se escriba) que era igual, pero no sé quién lo habrá hecho primero, me tendría que fijar en la fechas, y ni ganas. Anyway I think there is a word to "procrastinate" that is "procastrinar". So, I don't think there's no a direct translation from that word, but at the same time, I don't think that word is so common in Spanish but in spite of it this word is more and more usual at these times.
Y además, otros ejemplos de algo que no se puede traducir, yo pienso que son, "kind of" y "ever", o por lo menos es muy difícil dar a entender esa idea con un sola palabra.
To perform (actuar, hacer, presentarse)
"I performed well in the show today."
To overwhelm
[I don't even know a translation.]
Not to be confused with overcome, which is vencer, suponer.
I want to challenge myself.
Those are the four I most struggle with. (Ellos que me cuestan lo más.)
There's also "that dessert that moves, it's like a soup of chocolate, it's cold and you use a spoon." In Spanish: it's pudding. Or "pudín", spelled correctly, but it can be pronounced exactly like in English if you want.
A fidget spinner, también, is a "spinner" or a "hand spinner." No traducción es necesario.
