economia, milagro

Question

How do you this in Spanish?

"The Spanish economy was referred to as a miracle, the Spanish miracle."

WAS - as in used to be refered to as a miracle, but no longer

what tense is used for this?

la economía española - the Spanish economy el milagro español - the Spanish miracle

Gracias,

Hal

Answer 1

La economia fue referido) como un milagro, el milagro Español.

I'm not sure if imperfect is correct here. It was a completed action.

La economia fue describido como un milagro, el milagro Español.

(The economy was described as a miracle, the Spanish Miracle.)

Answer 2

In this sentence, you would use the Preterite tense of the Indicative mood. Indicative since it's a neutral statement, and Preterite as it refers to an action that was in the past, but not in a way that would require the imperfect. You could also use the passive "se" in conjunction with a verb like conocer instead of using the verb ser.

Was it not over time in the past that people referred to the Spanish Miracle, or is preterit still good for that. If so, someone should delete my guess... - Janice, Sep 18, 2009

Janice, you have the ability ton edit your own comments if you'd like to change what you said. - --Mariana--, Sep 18, 2009

It was over time, but it had a set start and a set ending, so it would fit into the preterite. - idahorsegirl, Sep 18, 2009

Answer 3

I looked up "refer to" in my dictionary but was not satisfied with any of the examples I found for the translation. So I might look up Spanish words for "to call" or one of its synonyms instead.

As regards the tense, I would guess that you would want to use the imperfect.