How to say turn it over......

Question

Translations for this are crazy.....like I get "the inferior side deletion mark covers it"? How crazy is that? I just wanna tell the girl to turn a horseshoe over where the bottom is on top....because the luck will fall out the open ends! HELP!!

Thanks!! Gracias!! - dipseygirl, AGO 29, 2009

Answer 1

Turn it over is a command in Spanish. So the way to say that is VOLTEALO. The LO is IT-VOLTEA means turn

Good luck!

Answer 2

You could use trastornar which can mean

Volver algo de abajo arriba o de un lado a otro.

Turn something from down to up or from one side to the other

or

Invertir el orden regular de algo.

Invert the regular order of something

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Invertir would also work, as this means to turn upside-down or invert.

If you are talking about the actual object and not the act then use

lo de arriba abajo

lo de arriba abajo-best answer in my opinion-good one. - 0074b507, AGO 30, 2009

Thanks - Izanoni1, AGO 30, 2009

Answer 3

HI everybody

Voltear would actually be the most frequently used word in American countries.

voltéala is the correct spelling, only the accent was missing.

In Spain we might want to say something like:

dar la vuelta

Dale la vuelta a la herradura.

Pon lo de arriba abajo, possible, but sounds strange. Invertir is not correct here, girar is possible, but sounds more like rotate.

Answer 4

voltear sound like rotating it around the wrong axis to me. (flip/turn over)

I think girar would more likely be the verb he needs to just "spin" it.

Answer 5

I'll go ahead and have a go at the entire sentence and see if I can't stay out of the dunce corner

Invierte la herradura para que la fortunada no se caiga afuera.

Turn the horseshoe upside down so that the luck doesn't tumble out.

Para que la fortunada no se caiga*. Subjunctive must be used with "para que". - Nick-Cortina, AGO 30, 2009

Thanks Nick. Where do these rules keep coming from...it seems like every time that I think I have a handle on the subjunctive another one pops up :-( - Izanoni1, AGO 30, 2009

Well, "para que" (so that) indicates an anticipated or hypothetical situation, thus it can not be declared, thus subjunctive is used. - Nick-Cortina, AGO 30, 2009

This link may be of help to you: http://users.ipfw.edu/jehle/courses/SUBJADV.HTM - Nick-Cortina, AGO 30, 2009

But each new one is another handle you have hold of, or is it another handle of which you have hold. - Eddy, AGO 30, 2009

Yes, but with so many hadles to hold, it seems like I am always dropping previously held handles - Izanoni1, AGO 30, 2009