Need some Spanish explained.
Hemos recibido su solicitud de matrícula y ya se ha realizado el alta.
Please can anyone tell me what the above means.
5 Answers
Alta and baja can be used to indicate that some procedure has been carried out or documents have been processed. Alta here means it has been processed/approved. When someone is off work ill they are de baja, when the illness is over they are de alta
I think it just means "it has already been registered and processed" - accepted.
Ian, it would be el alta even though alta is feminine. Like el agua, el hada, el águila, etc. The rule is whenever you have a singular feminine word that begins with an a and the first syllable has the pronunciation emphasis (whether it has an accent mark or not), then it will take the singular definite article "el" (not "la") or the singular indefinite article "un" (not "una"). This is to avoid the final a in la or una collapsing into a stressed a at the beginning of the word in question.
This rule only applies in the singular.
We have received your entrance application and it has already realized the highest.
Hmmm, strange, that last part must be idiomatic I was googling realizar el alta, and a lot of hits come up, including things like ¨realizing the highest ideal¨, ¨implementing the highest standard¨ etc etc.
Darn, I´m really curious now. I would bet it idiomatically means it´s been forward up the food chain to the relevant people, but that could be utterly wrong. This would seem to be very field or situation specific jargon.
Hope others respond soon. This is interesting.
I don't know what alta means here, but the rest of the sentence says We have received your registration application and the (alta) has already been completed/fulfilled.
