Using "el que"
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El que tiene seis hijos trabaja mucho.
Can you translate this for me? I see it is "He that has six sons works a lot" How close am I?
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updated Jan 15, 2013
posted by kyle_hurley
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I personally see no problems with your translation.
I probably would have written:
He who has six sons works a lot.
It is perfectly acceptable to translate “el que” as “he who” when it refers to a person, just as I would probably translate it as “which” if it referred to an object in an appropriate setting. The key is not to translate each word literally, but translate the underlying meaning.
updated Jan 15, 2013
posted by bosquederoble
