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amount to(
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)A transitive verb phrase is a phrase that combines a verb with a preposition or other particle and requires a direct object (e.g. Take out the trash.).
1. (to add up to)
a. ascender a
The flight is cheaper out of Chicago, but with the added costs of a bus and a hotel, it amounts to more.El vuelo es más económico de Chicago, pero con los costos adicionales de un bus y un hotel, asciende a más.
2. (to be equivalent)
a. venir a ser lo mismo que
Even though you didn't technically break a rule, what you did still amounts to cheating.Aunque técnicamente no rompiste una regla, lo que hiciste viene a ser lo mismo que hacer trampa.
b. equivaler a
If someone writes a song for you, and you don't say you like it, that amounts to saying you don't like it.Si alguien escribe una canción para ti y no dices que te gusta, eso equivale a decir que no te gusta.
3. (to become)
a. llegar a ser
I want to prove that everyone who thought I wouldn't amount to much were wrong.Quiero demostrar a todos los que pensaba que yo nunca llegaría a nada que no tenían la razón.
amount totransitive verb phrase
A transitive verb phrase is a phrase that combines a verb with a preposition or other particle and requires a direct object (e.g. Take out the trash.).
1. (add up to)
a. ascender a
her debts a to £700sus deudas ascienden a 700 libras
2. (mean)
a.
it amounts to the same thingviene a ser lo mismo, equivale a lo mismo
he'll never a to muchnunca llegará a nada
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