We've lost "for good". "For good" = forever.

Question

Would you say "Perdimos por siempre" or "perdimos por nada" or something like that, or which one to mean "We have lost for good" and mean "We have lost forever". Gracias.

Answer 1

Isn't that a bit of a strange thing to say even in English? Context could make a difference here, I suspect.

I would venture: "Hemos perdido definitivamente", "Definitivamente perdimos", "Perdimos irremediablemente", or something along those lines.

It's from a TV show. "We've this time....for good". They used "por nada" to mean for good. - jeezzle, Apr 13, 2010

Answer 2

Like on a match?

Estamos perdidos, sin esperanza. hemos perdido, sin salvación. NO nos salva ni el pan in la caridad...en fin

por or para siempre does not work.

Hemos perdido del todo.

More like in a war, we've lost this battle, and so we've lost for good. - jeezzle, Apr 13, 2010

¡El acabose! Me encanta eso del "ni el pan ni la caridad", ja, ja, ja! - Gekkosan, Apr 13, 2010

"Ni el pan ni el caridad" is that an expression used a lot? I see neither bread nor charity and I don't get it. - jeezzle, Apr 13, 2010

I had never heard the idiom before, either, but it makes sense to me: "We're in such a hopeless situation that they may feed us (pan) or they may clothe us (caridad), but we're still doomed. - Gekkosan, Apr 13, 2010

Answer 3

It's from a TV show. "We've this time....for good". They used "por nada" to mean for good. - jeezzle

Now that is really something!

Hemos perdido por nada: We have lost for no reason.

I mean...

Any of gekko's option is great.