Spanish Sentence Translation

Question

How do you translate "The waters are blue, and the sunset is golden," to English?

el agua es azul, y el atardecer es dorado. - pinarderio, NOV 3, 2009

"Translate to English" ?? It's already English. - samdie, NOV 4, 2009

Answer 1

A literal translation would look like this:

Los aguas son azul, y la puesta del sol esta del oro.

(The waters are blue, and the setting* of the sun is made of gold)

*Puesta del sol literally translates as "putting of the sun". Also note some say "Puesta de sol".

With colors in nature, there is some room for interpretation using es/esta, depending upon whether or not you are conveying a temporary state (estar), or one which is more or less permanent (ser). In this case, I presumed that the sunset was temporary and the water's color was more or less blue all of the time.

See here for more clarification on ser vs. estar: http://www.spanishdict.com/answers/100040/ser-and-estar

Another option for the translation is to attribute the colors to the items, or to choose more specific nouns. For instance, this sentence may be a better fit poetically (depending upon your context):

El mar azul y el atardecer dorado.

(The blue ocean and the golden dusk/sunset.)

Answer 2

" Las aguas estan azules y el atardecer es oro"

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Answer 4

las aguas estan azul, y el atardecer es dorado.