no llegamos a fin de mes

Question

what´s the meaning of it?

Answer 1

Q has provided the correct literal translation, and without a context it's difficult to do much better. However, in my personal experience, this is a common expression used to mean that we won't have enough money / budget / resources, for example, to carry us through the end of the month.

Answer 2

I'm not sure which computers, programmes or web browsers allow various things to be done. On my computer and programs, I am still able to highlight the entire phrase and then in the drop down menu that appears when I point to the phrase, I get a translation. In this case, the translation was idiomatic and said:
"We fail to make ends meet:
I would interpret the phrase then to mean "We're unable to make ends meet"

Muchos saludos/Best regards,

Moe

I don't get tha functionality, Moe, but it is nifty to know that some browsers / configurations permit that. On the drop down that I get, I do have the option to search in Google, but not to translate. - Gekkosan, Dec 14, 2011

And yes, "We're unable to make ends meet" would be a perfect idiomatic equivalent! - Gekkosan, Dec 14, 2011

Answer 3

We will not arrive at the end of the month.

We are not arriving at the end of the month. (present tense for future time)

Oops! I almost forgot. The preterite 3rd person, plural is the same as the present, 3rd person plural. (indicative mood)

So your sentence could also be:

We did not arrive at the end of the month.

Darn natives. They won't let you get away with anything! [nice question]

it doesn't make sense this is literal meaning - ahmadtalat, Dec 14, 2011

The trick is when the expressions are idiomatic, of course. - Gekkosan, Dec 14, 2011

Answer 4

Charles Dickens put it very well...

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."

google "Mr Micawber" if you want to know more.

I've just finished Claire Tomalin's biography of Dickens Tomalinand it seems the phrase was taken from his father who was far too often hounded for debt.