translation of "Librémonos"

Question

The Spanish translation (NVI) of Psalm 2, verse 3 is "Y dicen: «¡Hagamos pedazos sus cadenas! ¡Librémonos de su yugo!» which is translated in the NIV as “Let us break their chains,” they say, “and throw off their fetters.” My question concerns the English translation of "Librémonos" since it is not found in Spanishdict dictionary. I would greatly appreciate any enlightenment on this.

Gracias por su ayuda,

Jim

Answer 1

Franco, I think jgundy is puzzled by the spelling and structure of the word as much as by the translation. If this is so, the following may help:

Nos libramos - we escape, we free ourselves (1st person plural indicative of "librarse"

Libremos + nos - let us free ourselves (1st person plural imperative)

This is contracted for ease of pronunciation to "Librémonos" , and the accent is needed to preserve the stress on the syllable that was originally stressed. (try saying "librémosnos" and you will get the idea).

I don't know if this is what you were asking about?

Nice! - francobollo, Dec 29, 2012

Answer 2

Let's get freed up from their chains...

Librarse .... to be freed up / to be liberated / to escape / to get rid of