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es que no entiendo come en la vida puedes acer

English translation: It's that I don;'t understand how in life you can do

21:39 Mar 5, 2002
Spanish to English translations [Non-PRO]
Spanish term or phrase: es que no entiendo come en la vida puedes acer
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English translation:It's that I don;'t understand how in life you can do
Explanation:
hacer? then, do
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Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
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Summary of answers provided
4 +7It's that I don;'t understand how in life you can do
Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
5I just don't understand how on earth you can do...
Paul Stevens
4It's just that I can't understand how in our lives you can build
elenali
4I just don't understand how in life you can......
Maria-Jose Pastor


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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +7
It's that I don;'t understand how in life you can do


Explanation:
hacer? then, do

Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X)
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in pair: 7709
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Paulina Gómez: Very nice. It even keeps the rythm.
2 mins
agree  Bertha S. Deffenbaugh: OK. Would like to say that the original has a GROSS mistake: it should read HACER. :)))
5 mins
agree  Thierry LOTTE
12 mins
agree  Marian Greenfield
14 mins
agree  Carolina Lopez Garcia
15 mins
agree  Myrtha: it should be don´t instead of don;´t
38 mins
agree  FionaBrind
11 hrs
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48 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
I just don't understand how on earth you can do...


Explanation:
A variation on the only answer so far, which I believe reads more colloquially.

HTH

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Note added at 2002-03-05 22:28:41 (GMT)
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The last word could also be \"make\", depending on what follows.

Paul Stevens
Local time: 08:16
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in pair: 729
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
It's just that I can't understand how in our lives you can build


Explanation:
peace between us

elenali
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 8
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16 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
I just don't understand how in life you can......


Explanation:
... we would need to know what the person can do to complete this

hacer what?

as an aside, it should be "como" not come.

Maria-Jose Pastor
Local time: 03:16
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 152
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