Spanish Translation help!

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Spanish Translation help!

Postby btw1409 » Wed Mar 20, 2019 1:23 pm

Hola a todos!

I need a spot of help!

I saw this phrase in an advert in BA -

'es tomar sol todo el día ¿todavia no lo conocés?' (with a photo of someone sunbathing)

I understand all the individual words, but struggling to make sense of it - Google helpfully tells me it means ' is sunbathing all day long, do not you know yet? :lol:

Sorry, probably very simple and I'm having a mind blank!

Muchas gracias
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Re: Spanish Translation help!

Postby El Forastero » Fri Mar 22, 2019 3:23 am

Hello btw.

The translation is almost fine. The hard part could be the beggining: "es tomar...". It sounds unnatural to me because there's no reference to a particular subject, but it could be familiar among Argentinians. In Colombia, The form "eso de tomar..." sounds more natural

I would translate "Sunbathing..." or ·"That idea of sunbathing..."
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