May 1, 2009 21:20
15 yrs ago
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Spanish term

Cerró con todo lo que pasó

Spanish to English Social Sciences Government / Politics Ecuador
This is more from the Ecuadorian migrant interviews.

Entonces nos dejó totalmente con los brazos cruzados. Chit. Se llevó todo, entonces, hum… Comenzaron los saqueos, los robos y tantas cosas, algo igual como Argentina, entonces nos vimos obligados totalmente a emigrar, a emigrar. (…) Cerró con todo lo que pasó, cerraron las compañías, la crisis económica, cerraron bancos, cerraron muchas empresas, una de ésas fue la mía y nos liquidaron a todos

Proposed translations

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They closed -- ... [false start] With all that happened, [the companies shut down,...]

I think "Cerró.." is a "false start," as they say in linguistics. The speaker decided to backtrack and add more context before listing the operations that had closed down...

It's that presentational verb again, which often looks ungrammatical and may or may not agree with the subject that follows.
Peer comment(s):

agree David Ronder : I find this persuasive
6 hrs
Thanks, David!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks again, Muriel. Had an exchange with the author, and it seems that whoever transcribed the tapes didn't do the greatest of jobs, and the tapes themselves were simply hard to understand. So, "cerró . . . Con todo lo que pasó, cerraron etc.""
4 mins

Our options were limited with everything that happened

Se les cerró el futuro, la oportunidad de superarse.
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5 mins

It all ended with

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24 mins

(He) closed (his business/shop...) with all that happened

Contexto con "low confidence level". ¿Quién cerró (el negocio)? ¿El padre?
Así lo interpretaría yo, pero en las oraciones anteriores no hay ningún nombre que pudiera ser el sujeto. O ¿será "el barito cerro"?
Sin embargo, en lo que sigue se usa el verbo "cerrar"...
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