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para sacar la familia adelante

English translation: to help the family get on in life

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Spanish term or phrase:para sacar la familia adelante
English translation:to help the family get on in life
Entered by: Edward Tully

10:56 Sep 24, 2007
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
Spanish term or phrase: para sacar la familia adelante
Contexto: solicitud de adopción, descripción de la familia de la solicitante.

Mi padre es un luchador nato que junto a mi madre ha hecho lo imposible para sacar la familia adelante.
Bernadette Mora
Spain
Local time: 15:32
to help the family get on in life
Explanation:
another option!
Selected response from:

Edward Tully
Local time: 15:32
Grading comment
Thanks a bunch!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +9to help the family get on in life
Edward Tully
4 +3to give us a good education
Carol Gullidge
4 +3to provide the family with everything that we needed
Elizabeth Joy Pitt de Morales
5 +1to help the family get ahead in life
Margarita Palatnik (X)
5to put food on their family's table
Miguel Carrión Álvarez
4to set the family on its feet
Anatoliy Babich
4to support the family
Denise DeVries
4provide and meet the needs of our family
Lydia De Jorge


  

Answers


4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
to set the family on its feet


Explanation:
Una opción.

Anatoliy Babich
Ukraine
Local time: 16:32
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian, Native in UkrainianUkrainian
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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
to give us a good education


Explanation:
to bring us up well

to give us a good start

Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:32
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 214

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Gacela20: I like 'to give us a good start' or 'to see that the family progressed'
2 mins
  -> thanks, gacela!
agree  anamaria bulgariu: to give us a good start
15 mins
  -> thanks, anamaria!
neutral  Miguel Carrión Álvarez: Where is the word "education" in the text or in the context? "give us a good start on life" is better.
19 mins
  -> thanks, Miguel! "Collins: "sacar adelante a los hijos" = "to give one's children a good education in life" (sic)
agree  Marcelo Silveyra: Give us a good start.
20 mins
  -> thanks, Marcelo!
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
to put food on their family's table


Explanation:
Famously garbled by W as: "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."—Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000 (http://slate.com/id/76886/)

Miguel Carrión Álvarez
Spain
Local time: 15:32
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Marcelo Silveyra: "sacar la familia adelante" implies a lot more than just "to put food on their family's table," don't you think?
10 mins
  -> It is a set phrase, so I chose the English set phrase that most closely approximates the meaning even if it is not a perfect match. The asker gets to decide which option they like best.
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20 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
to support the family


Explanation:
financially

Denise DeVries
United States
Local time: 09:32
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +9
to help the family get on in life


Explanation:
another option!

Edward Tully
Local time: 15:32
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 212
Grading comment
Thanks a bunch!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  XXXphxxx (X)
2 mins
  -> thank you! :-)
agree  Miguel Carrión Álvarez
3 mins
  -> thank you Miguel!
agree  Marcelo Silveyra
4 mins
  -> thank you Marcelo!
agree  liz askew
42 mins
  -> thank you Liz!
agree  Diana Casey
51 mins
  -> thank you Diana!
agree  Bubo Coroman (X): or: to help the family get on with their lives
1 hr
  -> thank you Deborah!
agree  German Gonzalez
2 hrs
  -> thank you German!
agree  Hasselt
2 hrs
  -> thank you!
agree  Marina56: ok
4 hrs
  -> thank you Marina!
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25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
to provide the family with everything that we needed


Explanation:
or

to make sure all of us in the family had everything we needed.

Elizabeth Joy Pitt de Morales
Local time: 15:32
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  eliyahug
15 mins
  -> Thank you very much!
agree  Adriana Penco
1 hr
  -> Thank you very much!
agree  franglish: you could even shorten it to "to provide everything needed by the family"
5 hrs
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
to help the family get ahead in life


Explanation:

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Margarita Palatnik (X)
Local time: 10:32
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Miguel Carrión Álvarez
43 mins
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
provide and meet the needs of our family


Explanation:
I think 'sacar la familia adenlante' is much more than educating and putting food on the table..it is meeting ALL the needs of the family, from material needs to emotional needs.

Lydia De Jorge
United States
Local time: 08:32
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 187
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