Personalizing

Spanish translation: Personalización, individualización

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English term or phrase:Personalizing
Spanish translation:Personalización, individualización
Entered by: Henry Hinds

14:43 May 12, 2002
English to Spanish translations [PRO]
English term or phrase: Personalizing
Personalizing means to think that you are responsible for another person's actions.
elaborne
Local time: 06:24
Personalización, individualización
Explanation:
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Henry Hinds
United States
Local time: 04:24
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Muchas gracias!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2Tomarse una situación como algo personal
Robert INGLEDEW
5Personalización, individualización
Henry Hinds
5tomarse algo [muy] a pecho
Elena Sgarbo (X)
4personalizar o tomar algo de manera personal
Nitza Ramos
4apersonándose de...
Gabriel Aramburo Siegert
4hacerse cargo
Andrea Bullrich
4...sufrir vergüenza ajena...
Ramón Solá


  

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Tomarse una situación como algo personal


Explanation:
Only for the context you mention.

Because personalize means personalizar, when you adapt something for the specific requirements of a person.

Robert INGLEDEW
Argentina
Local time: 07:24
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 2664

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  -> Gracias, Lyssy.

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6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Personalización, individualización


Explanation:
Sugiero 2.


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Henry Hinds
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Local time: 04:24
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Muchas gracias!
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
personalizar o tomar algo de manera personal


Explanation:
Es como pensar que las acciones de otros están ligadas a ti de una forma u otra.

Nitza Ramos
United States
Local time: 06:24
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29 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
tomarse algo [muy] a pecho


Explanation:
Esta es una expresión idiomática para decir "personalize" en tu contexto.

Suerte
Elena

Elena Sgarbo (X)
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32 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
apersonándose de...


Explanation:
Hola, elaborne, falta un poco de contexto, pero por si te sirve...

Gabriel Aramburo Siegert
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51 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
hacerse cargo


Explanation:
No estoy segura del uso científico, pero en la Argentina se suele hablar de "hacerse cargo" o "no hacerse cargo" en este sentido.

HTH
Andrea

Andrea Bullrich
Local time: 07:24
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...sufrir vergüenza ajena...


Explanation:
Más coloquialmente, "sudar calentura ajena".
Como dijo Dostoyevski, "todos somos culpables por todo ante todos".

HTH...

Ramón Solá
Local time: 05:24
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 3952
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