terminar con
It doesn't seem correct to end the sentence with con. "Es curioso las diferencia lo que buscamos y lo que terminamos con. I wanted to say: "It's curious the difference between what we look for and what we end up with."
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It would be fine, but I'd say "al final" instead. Not a big difference, anyway.
Lazarus wrote:
Es curioso la diferencia entre lo que buscamos y con lo que terminamos.
Would it be acceptable to say it this way instead?
Es curioso la diferencia entre lo que buscamos y lo que tenemos al fin.
To me this sounds better, because there is better parallelism between the two "lo que" parts. But then soy gabacho...
Thank you very much for your response. That's what I figured but I wasn't sure.
lazarus1907 said:
Your sentence in Spanish is plain wrong. You simply never end a sentence with a preposition in Spanish (but you do in English):
Es curioso la diferencia entre lo que buscamos y con lo que terminamos.
In English is a matter of over-correctness, whereas in Spanish is an absolute no-no. If you think you've found this sentence in a Spanish speaking page, its author's Spanish is way below the standard of an uneducated native. A Spanish preposition comes before (pre-) the usual position (-position), not after. (In English it's a different story).
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Your sentence in Spanish is plain wrong. You simply never end a sentence with a preposition in Spanish (but you do in English):
Es curioso la diferencia entre lo que buscamos y con lo que terminamos.
In English is a matter of over-correctness, whereas in Spanish is an absolute no-no. If you think you've found this sentence in a Spanish speaking page, its author's Spanish is way below the standard of an uneducated native. A Spanish preposition comes before (pre-) the usual position (-position), not after. (In English it's a different story).
