Please help me translate this!

Question

Puerto Rico tiene no paises vecinos. Puerto Rico es un isla.

I am trying to say: Puerto Rico has no neighboring countries. Puerto Rico is an island.

I used the translator to get this, but my Spanish teacher doesn't like online translators. If you speak fluent Spanish, please tell me if what I said is what I want to say? Thanks. Gracias.

paises doesn't drop its tilde in the plural or the stress would shift to the "a" in the diphthong - 0074b507, Nov 1, 2009

Answer 1

¡Hola!, Love2Sing:

Spanish is not my mother tongue. In spite of that, I can see that where you have written "tiene no paises vecinos" it ought to be "no tiene paises vecinos". The word no is incorrectly placed in the original phrase.

And a question ---> Could you roll this all into one sentence so that it said:
"Puerto Rico has no neighboring countries because it is an island."?
If this could be done a different translation would result.

These are just some observations. I hope they help.

Recuerdos/Regards,

Moe

thanks so much! - Luv2Sing46, Nov 1, 2009

Answer 2

En mi opinión, está muy bien dicho.

"Puerto Rico no tiene países vecinos. Puerto Rico es un isla."

Sorry, It's: "no tiene" instead of "tiene no"... - Carlos-F, Nov 1, 2009

Answer 3

Puerto Rico no tiene ningunos países vecinos. Puerto Rico es una isla.

Answer 4

i like lorenzo9's answer the best..Spanish seems to love the double negative