translate "somewhere around"

Question

I can get a machine translation but I am sure it is not correct so please can someone help translate the following sentence? "Let's meet at Walmart somewhere around six tonight."

gracias!

Answer 1

Since my line of work is about calling clients over the phone, I use & hear from them 2 expressions: "como" & "a eso de," though "como" is a lot more used when talking about their preferred time to be called back.

Answer 2

Quedamos esté tarde en Walmart sobre las seis.

Quedamos "esta" tarde en Walmart sobre las seis. Sí señor, también. - RicardoP, OCT 28, 2009

Answer 3

Somewhere around six, could be translated as:

"Cerca de las seis"

"Alrededor de las seis"

"Como a las seis"

"Por ahí como a las seis"

I can asure you that we use all these expressions. I would like to see what Heidita or any other native speaker thinks about it.

Thanks for the list of different ways to express this idea. - webdunce, OCT 31, 2009

Answer 4

Webdunce said:

I think alrededor is more like physically surrounding something...whereas cerca means near in space, time, or amount.

From what I learned in Mexico, both "alrededor" and "cerca de" can mean the same thing, i.e., around/approximately.

The dictionary agrees and gives this example:

alrededor

at around one o'clock = alrededor de la una.

Also, Word Reference Dictionary says:

alrededor

llegué alrededor de las dos = I arrived around two o'clock

My apologies, Marianne. Claro, tú tienes razón. - webdunce, OCT 31, 2009

Answer 5

LOL.

I just read an article from Bolivia that used alrededor to mean approximately, and I thought well I better come back and correct my little comment. Didn't realize that everyone else had noticed the error, too.

Sorry, guys.

No need for apologies...this is how we learn! :-) - --Mariana--, OCT 31, 2009

Answer 6

I have also come across another alternative for "around" , which is the word "hacia".

Esto sucedió hacia las nueve de la mañana - This happened around nine in the morning.

Interesting. - webdunce, OCT 31, 2009

Answer 7

Vamos a quedar en Walmart alrededor de las seis.

Encontrémonos en Walmart cerca de las seis - RicardoP, OCT 28, 2009

I think alrededor is more like physically surrounding something...whereas cerca means near in space, time, or amount. - webdunce, OCT 28, 2009

Nope, I'm wrong. Alrededor can also mean approximately. - webdunce, OCT 31, 2009

Answer 8

Ricardo said:

Encontrémonos en Walmart cerca de las seis

Thanks, Ricardo, I agree that this sounds better than what I said.

However, when I once asked about using the verb "encontrar" to say meet I was told that "quedar" is a better verb to use. The reason given was that "encontrar" is to meet by chance and not to meet by agreement.

What do you think?