No me soportás. Tengo cara de que me importe.

Question

"No me soportás. Tengo cara de que me importe." This was the saying on a facebook picture of a cat wearing glasses and reading a newspaper. Part of it looks like bad spelling (soportás). It vaguely translates to "I put up with it. I have a caring face." Is this more or less correct?

Answer 1

"No me soportarás. Tengo cara de que me importe."

Soportar = to stand something / someone ...to put up with something / someone (soportarás = future tú form)

Tener cara = to have a lot of nerve to say or do something

No, it's present tense, argentinian spelling, Mariana, I have investigated. - annierats, Jul 10, 2012

Answer 2

annierats said

You can't stand me. Do I look as if this matters to me?

Annie's first phrase above is correct. It can be translated in a number of non literal ways.

So you can't stand me. Do I look bothered?

Chers, Eddy! - annierats, Jul 10, 2012

Answer 3

You can't stand me. Do I look as if this matters to me?

, Or: You won't support me/help me but I couldn't care less ( busy reading the paper cool and calm)

This is a very hesitant offering, I'm sure others will follow and I may be totally wrong. . Tener cara has a huge number of meanings, often relating to mood and how you look.

Soportás isn't the future tense form. It looks like a misspelling of "soportas." - Malenor, Jul 10, 2012

You're right. Makes beter sense, I wondered why it was in the future. I make loads of mistakes, await better answers.o - annierats, Jul 10, 2012

It sounds like you're on the right track. - Malenor, Jul 10, 2012

Hi, Annie. "Soportar" is not for moral or physical support, it's more to tolerate someone or something. The verb "apoyar" or "sujetar" would be used for those types of support. - --Mariana--, Jul 10, 2012

You're right Mariana, I struggled a bit, I had never heard this expression. - annierats, Jul 10, 2012

However, soprtás is argentinian present tnese of sopratr. Or so I'm told. - annierats, Jul 10, 2012

Answer 4

So it translates to "You won't put up with me. Do I look like I care?" That makes sense given the context. Thanks!

Answer 5

Part of it looks like bad spelling (soportás).

That's not bad spelling, it is the vos(you-singular, informal) pronoun corresponding verb conjugation, which is standard in Uruguay and Argentina, and widely used in some regions elsewhere in the Americas.

Answer 6

Maybe I'm totally off, but everyone is translating the second sentence into a question when it was originally a statement. Word for word it reads" I have a face of that to me is important"...now obviosuly it must retranslate into an everyday phrase that is not so literal, that I very much understand. But all the translations given seems so far away from the actual words. I'm just lost here...

I have the face that it matters to me. (sarcastic statement). - Eddy, Jul 10, 2012

If you translate literally as above it doesn't give the true sense in English. - Eddy, Jul 10, 2012