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16:44 Oct 29, 2019 |
Spanish to English translations [PRO] Agriculture / cultive | |||||
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| Selected response from: Robert Carter Mexico Local time: 05:57 | ||||
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4 +6 | are planted |
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5 +1 | is/are sown |
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4 +1 | are cultivated |
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is/are sown Explanation: En el contexto que vos describís es mejor usar el pasivo, pero no como lo tenés en tu mensaje: 100 hectares are sown with maize The field has been sown with wheat En tu ejemplo: Between 140,000 and 170,000 hectares are sown... También se podría decir "are planted" En cuanto a la segunda parte de la frase, lo tenés bien en el segundo. "...which produce around 1.6 million tons". El primero está equivocado. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sow Example sentence(s):
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/sow https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sow |
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are cultivated Explanation: Although ordinarily you'd use "sown" here, I'm not sure it works if no specific crop is mentioned. In any case, I think "sembrar" here isn't so much referring to the actual sowing, but instead to the growing of crops, or "cultivation" of the land. In Spanish, the word sembrar can mean more than precisely just sowing, for example, "la siembra" can mean both the act of sowing and the "cultivo" itself, i.e., the subsequent crop that grows from it. I live in a rural area where right now the rain-fed "siembra" has largely failed (the rains came too late). "BETWEEN 140,000 AND 170,000 HECTARES ARE CULTIVATED, PRODUCING AROUND 1.6 MILLION TONS" |
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are planted Explanation: I work a lot with gardeners, and they all use the verb "sembrar" to refer to any kind of planting - even for transplanting shrubs and trees. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 52 mins (2019-10-29 17:37:13 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- So your sentence would be: 'Between 140 and 170 are planted, yielding at least 1.6 million tons' |
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