Que pasa?

English translation: What's up?

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Spanish term or phrase:Que pasa?
English translation:What's up?
Entered by: EDLING (X)

10:38 Mar 10, 2003
Spanish to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
Spanish term or phrase: Que pasa?
Someone had spray painted "Que Pasa?" on the passenger's-side door of this truck.

What does it mean by "Que pasa"?
Buttercup
What's up?
Explanation:
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EDLING (X)
Grading comment
THank you very much
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Summary of answers provided
4 +15What's up?
EDLING (X)
5 +4What is going on?
Gordana Podvezanec
5 +1what´s the matter?
Aida González del Álamo
5 +1Wassup???
LindseyH
5What's up?
Jesús Marín Mateos
5Literally: "What's happening?"... But...
Dr. Rafael Andrés Escribano
4What´s your problem ?
Labea


  

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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +15
What's up?


Explanation:
Another option

EDLING (X)
Grading comment
THank you very much

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Oliver Giesser
0 min
  -> Thanks

agree  Silvia Delgado Rushe Delgado
6 mins
  -> Thanks

agree  Katherine Matles
8 mins
  -> Thanks

agree  luka
9 mins
  -> Thanks

agree  Enza Longo
9 mins
  -> Thanks

agree  Nikki Graham
11 mins
  -> Thanks

agree  Tania Marques-Cardoso
1 hr
  -> Thanks

agree  Sheila Hardie
1 hr
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agree  Silvia Ferrero
1 hr
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agree  Monica Rodriguez: It is colloquial, like "¿Qué pasa?"
1 hr
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agree  Diego V (X)
2 hrs
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agree  jerrie
3 hrs
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agree  Marion Burns: "What's happening?" "What's going on?" Quite common in U.S.
4 hrs
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agree  Annie Tétrault
4 hrs
  -> Thanks

agree  mirta
5 hrs
  -> Thanks
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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
What's up?


Explanation:
I understand that's what had been sprayed.

Jesús Marín Mateos
Local time: 13:36
Works in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +4
What is going on?


Explanation:
Spanish

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Note added at 2003-03-10 10:54:23 (GMT)
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What is happening?
What is up?


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Note added at 2003-03-10 11:07:26 (GMT)
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What is happening?
What is up?

Gordana Podvezanec
Croatia
Local time: 14:36
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in CroatianCroatian

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jesús Marín Mateos
2 mins
  -> gracias

agree  Aida González del Álamo
5 mins
  -> thanks

agree  Tania Marques-Cardoso
1 hr
  -> thank you

agree  Florence Evans
2 hrs
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
what´s the matter?


Explanation:
what is going on ?

Aida González del Álamo
Spain
Local time: 14:36
Works in field
Native speaker of: Spanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marsha Wilkie
9 hrs
  -> thanks marsha
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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Wassup???


Explanation:
As used in the advert for Budweiser.

LindseyH
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:36
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Aida González del Álamo: funny
11 hrs
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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
What´s your problem ?


Explanation:
After a tense moment, a phone line is found. But can it get any worse?

As I see Jon making his way up to the booth, I get up to stretch, only to watch some jerky steal my chair and oblivious to my presence.
I arrive and quickly make my way into the booth where I’m told there’s no phone line for me. This would normally not be a problem, unless of course you are preparing to broadcast the game for a radio station.

"What do you want from me?" said the very young man apparently in charge. "It’s not my job to know these things."

Well thanks for the friendly words pal. And as a parting gift, take this hand grenade out back and check the pin to see if it comes out ok.

"What’s your problem pal?" he cries looking my way. "I always sit here."

"But I’m set up there to broadcast the game," I reply. "You can’t take my place like that."




Labea
Luxembourg
Local time: 14:36
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9 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Literally: "What's happening?"... But...


Explanation:
Literally, in terms of the specific verb and the specific tense (present), mode (indicative) and aspect (imperfective, given the value of this particular verb, "pasar", used in the present), it should be: "What's happening?"

Other alternatives already mentioned are also possible, like "What's up?".

But only enough knowledge about the context would make it possible to determine whether the phrase implies a joke, a threat, etc.

Rafael

Dr. Rafael Andrés Escribano
United States
Local time: 09:36
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