Let\'s groove

19:55 Mar 1, 2016

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English to Spanish translations [PRO]
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English term or phrase: Let\'s groove

Let's groove.

(Note to reader: to me this has always meant, "Let's dance". But could it mean more? I'm helping a friend come up with a good translation).

Thanks.

Hardy Moreno KudoZ activity Questions: 1259 (6 open) (1 without valid answers) (24 closed without grading) Answers: 839
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Summary of answers provided

4 +2

vamos a crecer alegres/cultivemos la felicidad

Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón

Vamos a mover el esqueleto

Paula Sabirón

3 +1

[pongámonos] en forma / pongámonos marchosas (¡chicas!)

JohnMcDove

vamos a pasarlo/a bien

andyfergu

vamos a divertirnos

Natalia Pedrosa

2 +1

¡a ponernos en (buena) onda (pues)

Marcelo González

Discussion entries: 7

Answers

1 hr confidence:

let\'s groove Vamos a mover el esqueleto

Explanation:
Coloquialmente podría dejarse así, aunque todo dependerá del contexto...

Paula Sabirón
Local time: 15:49
Native speaker of:

Spanish

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1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

let\'s groove vamos a crecer alegres/cultivemos la felicidad

Explanation:
Se me ocurre que es un juego de palabras en el musical. Juegan con "groove" y "grow", en sus sentidos de "estar bien" y "crecer". Así, pienso en un idiomático: estar bien, pasarla bien, divertirse, "crecer alegres".

Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón
Mexico
Local time: 09:49
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4

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3 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

let\'s groove [pongámonos] en forma / pongámonos marchosas (¡chicas!)

Explanation:
Tendería a usar algo como "let's thrive" (thrive= crecer con fuerza, desarrollarse... referido a las plantas...)

Pero en honor a Glenn Miller y su fantástico "hit" (In the Mood), creo que se puede usar la traducción más común de "in the mood" = "en forma" para titular un relato sobre unas plantas marchosas...

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Mood

La otra opción de "marchosas" da la idea de estar altas de tono y de tener actividad... una plantas bailarinas... aunque no se muevan, como si fueran un Michael Jackson o un Marcel Marceau, caminando en el mismo sitio (moon walking), con esa sinuosidad de esos genios... como una plantita creciendo en ondulaciones... y "poniéndose en la onda"... Ah, esa es otra opción: "pongámonos en la onda"... "captemos la vibra: ¡crezcamosssssss!"

Saludos cordiales... ¡y buena cosecha!

JohnMcDove
United States
Local time: 07:49
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish
PRO pts in category: 28

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2 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

let's groove ¡a ponernos en (buena) onda (pues)

Explanation:
As for the title, maybe something with "(buena) onda" could work there too??

If it's usually true that it "depends on the country," it's usually even truer when it comes to colloquialisms and other informal language.

I hope this helps!

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Note added at 2 hrs (2016-03-01 22:04:13 GMT)
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oops: that would be with one of these [!] at the end as well :-)

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Note added at 4 hrs (2016-03-02 00:46:23 GMT)
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Quizá algo con el verbo (o los derivados de) "sintonizar":

vámonos a 'sintonizar' [chicos] (siguiendo con esta idea de la buena onda) o quizá "sintonicémos [unos con otros], (pues)"

In this particular context, we might want to be open to taking more creative licence, i.e., wielding a little more "textual agency" (for a discussion of this concept in the context of translation, see "Metaphor and agency" [2014]).

And that was very helpful, Hardy, that description (in Discussion). Clearly, it's not dancing, though it is related perhaps to "grooving to" or "grooving on" something, i.e., being in tune or in harmony or at one with something or someone.

Marcelo González
United States
Local time: 04:49
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 12

The asker has declined this answer

12 hrs confidence:

let\'s groove vamos a pasarlo/a bien

Explanation:
One of the definitions of (to) groove is pasarlo bien
Without additional context this option is safe
Latam alternative: vamos a pasarla bien

Reference: http://www.wordreference.com/es/translation.asp?tranword=gro...

andyfergu
Spain
Local time: 16:49
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish

The asker has declined this answer

17 hrs confidence:

let\'s groove vamos a divertirnos

Explanation:
Otra posibilidad. Saludos.

Natalia Pedrosa
Spain
Local time: 16:49
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

Catalan,

English
PRO pts in category: 4

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