Acabas de has another meaning?

Question

"Nunca acabas de llenarte de cielo" is a translation of You can never have too much sky. I thought acabar de meant to have just done something (with an infinitive). Can someone explain how the English was translated thus?

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Answer 1

What you learned about "acabar de" is true. However that is idiomatic usage.

Acabar also means "to finish" something. So when you say, "Acabo de comer los tacos you're saying, "I finish or "i'm finishing eating the tacos."

So therefore, "Nunca acabas de llenarte de cielo is "You never finish filling yourself with sky" is what your're saying word for word here. So you can see that idiomatic expressions abound in Spanish.

Muchas gracias. Entiendo. - RolloMartins, Aug 8, 2016