Necesito ayuda con una frase

Question

¡Hola todos! Estoy leyendo un libro en la que la frase "trato hecho" se usa de vez en cuando. No sé cómo la interpretarlo. Tu ayuda es apreciada.

It means "from time to time". - kkabuelita, Jul 4, 2013

Answer 1

Trato hecho means:

• We are in agreement
• Deal
• We've got a deal
• You bet

"Done deal"? Perhaps an anglicism? Merely by the way, false friend and cognate are two different things. "Apreciar" is a true cognate (Latin) but a false friend. There are a few false cognates, but very few. - EugenioCosta, Jul 4, 2013

"I see" = "Ya veo", oops an anglicism? :^) - chileno, Jul 4, 2013

I would like to discuss this "appreciate" thingy but franco's thread was closed??!!! - chileno, Jul 4, 2013

"So true", jeje. ¿Tan verdadero? - EugenioCosta, Jul 4, 2013

I am going with Franco on this- We have used it in the senses mentioned in his post. - pacofinkler, Jul 4, 2013

There would seem to be no question whatever that the meaning above is how the phrase is used now. Was it used that way, and only that way, before, say, television show X or Y? - EugenioCosta, Jul 5, 2013

Answer 2

Sin contexto es dificil decir por seguro pues podría tener una variedad de significados, entonces tomando en cuenta que la frase sale de un libro que supuestamente sea una novela, diría yo que quiere decir "established understanding."

Answer 3

Eso es interesante:

Trato Hecho, Spanish for "done deal" or "It's a deal", is the name used for at least three different game shows:

Trato Hecho (U.S. game show), the Spanish language version of Let's Make a Deal in the United States

Trato Hecho (Argentina), the Argentine version of "Deal or No Deal"

Deal or No Deal (Chile), the Chilean version of "Deal or No Deal", which originally used the Trato Hecho name

Trato Hecho (Peru), the Peruvian version of "Deal or No Deal"

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Answer 4

I've always seen "trato hecho" to mean "It's a done deal", or "it's a deal".

I've also seen it shortened to just "hecho".

¿Trato hecho? -- Is it a deal / Do we have a deal? Hecho! -- Deal

Answer 5

"Deal!"

Answer 6

Interestingly enough SpanishDict also has cosa hecha, "done thing" as hecho consumado and fait accompli as well as "done deal".

Answer 7

Another interesting aspect--according to http://dictionary.reference.com/idioms/done+deal l

done deal

An irrevocable agreement, as in Once you've signed the lease, it's a done deal. **This slangy expression, first recorded in 1979, may have come from done thing, originating in the late 1600s

If this is accurate, all one need find is a use of trato hecho in Spanish, and as something like "done deal", before 1979 or so, and preumably also before the television show appeared in Spanish.

Answer 8

And from the translation of a popular song:

Mais un fait accompli Il ne peut pas être annulée Vous avez oublié quand j'ai juré Jusqu'à ce que la mort nous sépare

Pero un trato hecho No puede ser desecho Te olvidaste cuando me juraste Hasta que la muerte nos separe

Answer 9

Another interesting question--do the French too permit their language to be destroyed by a television game show called "Fait Accompli"?

Answer 10

Present popular meaning, therefore, not only an anglicism and a game-ism, but a television-ism too?

Wonder what it is in Coptic?

Answer 11

¡Y mire! A Itraductor.com:

Traducción de 'trato hecho' al Francés: fait accompli.