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consummating history

Spanish translation: historia consumada/ consumar la historia


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English term or phrase:consummating history
Spanish translation:historia consumada/ consumar la historia
Entered by: MargaEsther
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13:11 Oct 14, 2007
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History
English term or phrase: consummating history
I have no more context
translation300
Local time: 10:28
historia consumada
Explanation:
Es la expresión que usan los historiadores. Espero que te ayude. Suerte.
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MargaEsther
Local time: 10:28
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5historia consumadaMargaEsther
3 +1completar la historia
Cecilia Real


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
completar la historia


Explanation:
Difficult without any more context!

Cecilia Real
Spain
Local time: 17:28
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Refugio: o consumar la historia, to keep it ambiguous like the original ... agree that the gerund in English requires an infinitive, not a participle
32 mins
  -> Thanks, Ruth!
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20 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
historia consumada


Explanation:
Es la expresión que usan los historiadores. Espero que te ayude. Suerte.

MargaEsther
Local time: 10:28
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Refugio: And yet I am sure you would agree that the process is different from the finished result?
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Oct 14, 2007 - Changes made by MargaEsther:
Created KOG entryKudoZ term => KOG term


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