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Spanish term or phrase:
Y yo como una sonsa esperaba que llegara el quince de octubre nada más que porque habíamos quedado que yo iría a visitarla ---
English translation:
Like a fool I waited for October 15th to arrive, simply because we had agreed I would visit her around mid-October.
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Y yo como una sonsa esperaba que llegara el quince de octubre nada más que porque habíamos quedado que yo iría a visitarla para la mitad ded octubre.
As I were a fool, I only waited that October 15th arrived because we ARRANGED that I would go to visit her in the middle of October
As I were a fool, I only waited that October 15th arrived because we ARRANGED that I would go to visit her in the middle of October
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ahí va mi intento...
... aunque esto es bastante LARGO!!
Like a fool I waited for the 15th of october to arrive simply because we had agreed I would visit her around the middle of that month (or in mid-October).
Like a fool I waited for the 15th of october to arrive simply because we had agreed I would visit her around the middle of that month (or in mid-October).
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George Rabel
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Not bad, but try this...
And I waited as a fool for October 15th to arrive, just because we had agreed that I´d come to visit her in mid-October.
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No, it's not.
And like a fool, I was waiting for October 15 to arrive, only because we had arranged I was going to visit her by mid-October.
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: Without any more context, I agree it should probably be "I was waiting".
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Thanks, I would use the Simple Past because it seems the person is describing a process in the past, not a finished action.
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And like a fool I just waited for 15th October to arrive as we had arranged that I would visit her
...towards the middle of the month
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