A fin de cuenta

Question

En las flashcard ahy una palabra que es:

a fin de cuenta

la descripcion en ingles seria: make a long story short

voy al traductor y me dice que: make a long story short, seria: hacer el cuento largo corto...

en ingles??? a fin de cuentas,,, como realmente se diria???

Please remember to use proper capitalization and punctuation in your posts...we have students of English here on the forum. - --Mariana--, Oct 24, 2011

Answer 1

Welcome, Jo, just realize that many idioms don't translate exactly between languages.

thank's - JOZABETH, Oct 24, 2011

Answer 2

Entiendo, la computadora no siempre usan las palabras correctas entre dos indiomas. Pienso, es por que ellos usan tres servicios a traductor.

Answer 3

Machine translation is particularly weak when it comes to (idiomatic) expressions. If, as is usually the case, they don't have that particular [removed]and it needs to be exactly the same, not almost the same [which humans can deal with but programs can't]) they fall back on word-for-word translations (which rarely work).

Other possibilities for English speakers, "the long and the short of it is ..." / "cutting to the chase ..." / "to summarize" / "briefly" (when speaking to people who have a bit of French [probably not Americans but, maybe, the occasional Brit], "en bref")

Answer 4

Please remember to use proper capitalization and punctuation in your posts...we have students of English here on the forum. - --Mariana-

HI joza, ya te avisé en otra ocasión, por favor debes escribir correctamente.

Esto debería ser: a fin de cuentas.

Answer 5

Así se dice en inglés. Se pudiera explicarlo "contar una larga historia con pocas palabras." Eso es lo que buscas, no?

y como se diria a fin de cuentas en ingles???? - JOZABETH, Oct 24, 2011

to make a long story short, finally, ultimately, after all that - unMica, Oct 24, 2011

pero en realidad puede significar muchas cosas diferentes, aunque son parecidas - unMica, Oct 24, 2011