17:25 Aug 3, 2018 |
Spanish to English translations [Non-PRO] Furniture / Household Appliances / Nicaraguans, please verify this for me | |||||||
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3 +4 | sofa / couch |
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5 +1 | Armchair |
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4 +1 | armchair |
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armchair Explanation: My gestor is from Nicaragua and he says it's an armchair... which is the usual definition. However, if they (plural) were sitting in it, the speaker probably means a sofa/settee/couch, or whatever you guys call them. Unless of course, "they" were sitting elsewhere, while Edgar was the only one sitting in the armchair… https://www.linguee.es/espanol-ingles/traduccion/sill%C3%B3n.html |
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Armchair Explanation: Hi. I lived in South America for 25 years. It's definitely "armchair" (a big chair). Sofa would be "sofá" -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 26 mins (2018-08-03 17:52:32 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Yes, you are right about "sillones americanos" but that's not a colloquial term, which she would be using given the context. My only doubt is when she says "Estábamos viendo una película con Edgar en el sillón..." Is Edgar a child or a husband/boyfriend with whom she might share a single armchair? It does sound as if they were both occupying the same piece of furniture. |
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sofa / couch Explanation: Although you've already said you're going to go with armchair, I'm going to suggest the alternative because I think it's more likely to be right here. Sillón as sofa in Nicaragua "Sillón en Excelente Estado en Curridabat C$ 60.00" https://venta.todobusco.com/nicaragua/sillon-en-excelente-es... "Silloón verde con nuquero" http://solucionesintegrales.com.ni/lk-520-re/ "Vendo Sillones marca BOAL (Managua)" http://ni.clasificados.com/vendo-sillones-marca-boal-8710.ht... (scroll down) "Sillón muy lindo, nuevo comprado en la Artística, me urge vender por falta de espacio, escucho ofertas. Esta en Jacó, pero se puede negociar el traerlo a San José. " https://venta.todobusco.com/costa-rica/sillon-104210 "Foto de Franklin Chang junto a Barack Obama moviendo un sillón" (They are moving a sofa) https://www.nacion.com/ciencia/foto-de-franklin-chang-junto-... "Esta hermosa sala, marca Muebles Lizz cuenta con un sillón individual de 95 An x 90 A cm, un loveseat de 145 An x 90 Alt cm y un sillón para tres personas que mide 228 An x 90 A cm." http://www.siman.com/nicaragua/juego-de-sala-47.html "Como centro observamos un sillón para dos." https://www.laprensa.com.ni/2006/02/28/suplemento/nosotras/1... "Consta de un sillón para tres personas, dos sillas pequeñas y una mesita. (Mueblería Amador, de Masaya)" https://www.laprensa.com.ni/2004/06/15/suplemento/nosotras/1... To put this in perspective, a sofa is usually called "sofá" in Nicaragua and "sillón" usually means an armchair, but I have just listed eight examples of "sillón" (not "sillón americano") definitely referring to a sofa. This, to me, raises a reasonable doubt. And I think "sofa" fits the context very much better: the sentence is perfectly natural if the speaker is referring to a sofa, on which she, another person and Edgar were all sitting, but oddly expressed if she means "we were watching a film with Edgar, who was sitting on an armchair". I think that on balance sofa is more likely to be what she means, like the "sillón" Barack Obama is moving in the photo I've cited. ______________________________ A sofa is sometimes called a sillón in other countries too: Here's one in Guatemala: https://venta.todobusco.com/guatemala/sillon--183792 I have occasionally heard people in Spain refer to a sofa as a "sillón". "Un sofá para uno no es un sofá, es un sillón. Apréndete bien la diferencia porque es bastante común hablar de 'los sillones' para referirse a un conjunto de sofás, o aplicar propiedades de un sillón a un sofá." http://www.aquaclean.com/AR_es/post/aprende-el-vocabulario-p... Argentina: lots of sofas called "sillones" here: https://desillas.com/subcat-15-105-sillones-y-sofas.html Not sure which country the following is from: "El Sillón Rústico (Ranch Couch en inglés, Western-Kommode en alemán) es el sofá1 perteneciente a la Colección Rústica. ↑ Es un sillón, pero generalmente se le puede llamar sofá porque realiza sus mismas funciones y el diseño es muy parecido al resto de sofás" http://es.animalcrossing.wikia.com/wiki/Sillón_Rústico And finally this answer is worth noting: "Como se dice Casa, sillón, cama, ropero, mesa, regadera en Uruguay, Colombia y Nicaragua?" "En Nicaragua,a casa,mesa , cama y regadera ,se la nombra tal cual. A sillón,se lo menciona como sofá." https://brainly.lat/tarea/2208806 |
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