fabrica simuladores a las aerolineas

English translation: manufactures type D flight simulators for the ... airlines

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Spanish term or phrase:fabrica simuladores a las aerolineas
English translation:manufactures type D flight simulators for the ... airlines
Entered by: Sandra Alboum

03:19 Jul 22, 2004
Spanish to English translations [Non-PRO]
Bus/Financial - Aerospace / Aviation / Space / use of preposition
Spanish term or phrase: fabrica simuladores a las aerolineas
The full sentence is
Nuestra empresa fabrica simuladores de tipo D a las aerolineas Europeas, Norteamericanas y Latinoamericas.
The rest of the document is about courses offered by the company, not about their manufacturing operations, and what is puzzling me is the preposition 'a'. Do they mean they are manufacturing them at the premises of the airlines, or for the airlines, or to reproduce the aircraft of those airlines. The latter seems the most likely.
janen
Local time: 15:02
manufactures type D flight simulators for the ... airlines
Explanation:
I think that this may be a strange (and probably wrong) usage of the preposition "a". "A" can be used in the sense of "for" like "Votar a Bush/Kerry" (let no one say I'm biased), but it's not usually used in this case.

My M.A. thesis was 105 pages on the Spanish preposition "de"...
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Sandra Alboum
United States
Local time: 22:02
Grading comment
Thanks - I'll accept your expertise. My Spanish is self-taught so I'm sometimes not sure if I'm just missing something. But there were quite a few mistakes in the text.
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4 +2manufactures type D flight simulators for the ... airlines
Sandra Alboum
4manufactures simulators for the airlines
Michael Powers (PhD)


  

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manufactures simulators for the airlines


Explanation:
así es

Mike :)

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Note added at 1 min (2004-07-22 03:21:43 GMT)
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Oxford

simulador m simulator

simulador de vuelo flight simulator


Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
Local time: 22:02
Native speaker of: English
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manufactures type D flight simulators for the ... airlines


Explanation:
I think that this may be a strange (and probably wrong) usage of the preposition "a". "A" can be used in the sense of "for" like "Votar a Bush/Kerry" (let no one say I'm biased), but it's not usually used in this case.

My M.A. thesis was 105 pages on the Spanish preposition "de"...


Sandra Alboum
United States
Local time: 22:02
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks - I'll accept your expertise. My Spanish is self-taught so I'm sometimes not sure if I'm just missing something. But there were quite a few mistakes in the text.

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agree  Refugio
34 mins

agree  Henry Hinds: Usage of "a" sounds OK to me, and how did you manage to do 105 pages on the Spanish preposition "de"? Of course, it is a word we can't do without, in my "search and replace" it has the highest numbers.
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