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Que pasa?

English translation: What's up?

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Spanish term or phrase:	Que pasa?
English translation:	What's up?
Entered by:	xxxEDLING

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10:38 Mar 10, 2003

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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:
Another option

Selected response from:

xxxEDLING

Grading comment

THank you very much
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +15

What's up?

xxxEDLING

5 +4

What is going on?

Gordana Podvezanec

5 +1

Wassup???

LindseyH

5 +1

what´s the matter?

aidagda

What's up?

Jesús Marín Mateos

Literally: "What's happening?"... But...

Dr. Rafael Andrés Escribano

What´s your problem ?

Labea

Answers

1 min confidence:

peer agreement (net): +15

What's up?

Explanation:
Another option

xxxEDLING

Grading comment

THank you very much

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Oliver Giesser

0 min

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agree

Silvia Delgado Rushe Delgado

6 mins

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agree

Katherine Matles

8 mins

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agree

luka

9 mins

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agree

Enza Longo

9 mins

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agree

Nikki Graham

11 mins

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agree

Tania Marques-Cardoso

1 hr

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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

xxxDiego V

2 hrs

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agree

jerrie

3 hrs

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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

1 min confidence:

What's up?

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

Jesús Marín Mateos
Local time: 11:17
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish

2 mins confidence:

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: 12:17
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

Croatian,

Slovenian

8 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

what´s the matter?

Explanation:
what is going on ?

aidagda
Local time: 12:17
Works in field
Native speaker of:

Spanish

12 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

Wassup???

Explanation:
As used in the advert for Budweiser.

LindseyH
Local time: 11:17
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English

16 mins confidence:

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
Local time: 12:17

9 hrs confidence:

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

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Changes made by editors

Feb 4, 2006 - Changes made by Fuad Yahya:
Field (specific)	(none) => General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters

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