thirty-five hundred

Spanish translation: Tres mil quinientos

01:40 Feb 28, 2020

English to Spanish translations [Non-PRO]
Marketing - Marketing / Market Research / Marketing / Sales

English term or phrase: thirty-five hundred

Hello,
I know what this means, but I´d appreciate your ideas in the following case.

Think back to your time in high school. I don’t care when
you graduated, $3,500 is a lot of money. For these [young] kids, it was
no different. They did amazingly well pitching the parents on
the program, its value, and the structure. When it came to
price, though, they almost stuttered as it came out of their
mouths. He realized that the kids were terrified of saying a
number that big.
He set out on a mission to desensitize them to it. Before the
start of business, he’d get the kids to practice saying to each
other “thirty-five hundred.” Not “three thousand, five hundred”
but “thirty-five hundred.”

»» “That’s thirty-five hundred pillows…”
»» “That’s thirty-five hundred feathers…”
»» “That’s thirty-five hundred giraffes…”

Remember it's not “three thousand, five hundred”...
Thank you!
Elena

Ma.Elena Carrión de Medina KudoZ activity Questions: 152 (4 open) (5 closed without grading) Answers: 110 Ecuador
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Spanish translation:Tres mil quinientos

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Yaotl Altan
Mexico
Local time: 04:08

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Tres mil quinientos

Yaotl Altan

Tres quinientos

Irene Gutiérrez

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Tres mil quinientos

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Yaotl Altan
Mexico
Local time: 04:08
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish,

Italian
PRO pts in category: 82
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3 days 9 hrs confidence:

Tres quinientos

Explanation:
Se me ocurre que quizás se pueda omitir la palabra 'mil' para dar la sensación de que estamos hablando de una cantidad menor. Aunque es un uso bastante informal, creo que es una de las pocas alternativas para mantener la misma referencia en español.
Además, se corresponde con la lectura rápida característica del sector de los negocios/comercio: 3 500 = tres quinientos. Denotaría un uso coloquial de la jerga y, por lo tanto, una familiaridad con las cifras que representan grandes cantidades de dinero.

Example sentence(s):

Cuesta tres quinientos

Irene Gutiérrez
Spain
Local time: 12:08
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish

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