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English term

COLLOCATIONS

English to Spanish Art/Literary Idioms / Maxims / Sayings COLLOCATIONS
How do you say collocations in Spanish, talking about syntax in the language
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Discussion

JohnMcDove Dec 29, 2015:
Esta pregunta es "pro", sin duda alguna. No cualquier hablante puede traducir esto, así sin más... Diría yo.

Proposed translations

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colocaciones típicas / enlaces frecuentes

Así es como se suelen mencionar en español.

María Moliner usa mucho "enlace frecuente" cuando se trata de "colocaciones" como "sin tregua", "eminentemente práctico", "plenamente satisfecho", "fe inquebrantable", "magen de tolerancia" y demás...

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Translation of collocation in Spanish:
noun
countable or uncountable

(Linguistics)
colocación (feminine) típica

Example sentences

If the substituted words have relevant meanings, so much the better; and if the original collocation is archaic or otherwise non-compositional, that improves the chances still further.
This example shows how the meanings of words are constructed and maintained by patterns of collocation.
Johnson gave little attention to collocation, idiom, and grammatical information, although he provided a brief grammar at the front.
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Example sentences

The collocations go to church/school/college and be at church/school/college are shared, but go to university/be at university and go to hospital/be in hospital are BrE, AmE requiring the as in go to the university.
For example, he invites us to ‘consider the number of collocations like ‘by and large’ that we use with no discernible compositional rationale.’
He has smoothed out a whole range of peculiar collocations and syntactical anomalies in order to make the translation flow.

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/translate/english-spanish/...

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http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/american_englis...

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Erratum: "magen" quise escribir "margen"... :-)
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colocación/orden/posición

Posición de las palabras en una oración o frase.
Peer comment(s):

neutral JohnMcDove : No se trata de esto, realmente, sino de esto: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/american_englis... ¡Feliz Navidad! ¡O feliz San Esteban... que es hoy! :-)
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