Help please my Spanish is very poor
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Help please my Spanish is very poor
Hi, I wonder if we could pick your brains as our Spanish is so very poor and we need some help if anybody can help please we would be very grateful.
We are looking for a name for our cave and as I was born in a house called Sunny Bank and the cave might be the last place I end up, so I like the idea of calling it this but want to get it right in spanish, so far I have
Cueva Banco Sol
Cueva del banco sol
Cueva banco soleado
Is banco right for a bank on a hillside rather than where you keep your cash as Google translate and various other people have given conflicting information and we would really like to get it right.
We also like "Cool Cave " Like in funky/trendy not cold but we could only find out that the word Quay means cool in this way but Cueva Quay which sounds a bit strange and Churrlo can mean house of ladies if you get my meaning so can't have that so back to the drawing board.
Our final choice is Cueva Indalo but guess this is fairly common but does sound nice and is short so it's still on the table.
any thoughts please would be fab - thanks in advance
We are looking for a name for our cave and as I was born in a house called Sunny Bank and the cave might be the last place I end up, so I like the idea of calling it this but want to get it right in spanish, so far I have
Cueva Banco Sol
Cueva del banco sol
Cueva banco soleado
Is banco right for a bank on a hillside rather than where you keep your cash as Google translate and various other people have given conflicting information and we would really like to get it right.
We also like "Cool Cave " Like in funky/trendy not cold but we could only find out that the word Quay means cool in this way but Cueva Quay which sounds a bit strange and Churrlo can mean house of ladies if you get my meaning so can't have that so back to the drawing board.
Our final choice is Cueva Indalo but guess this is fairly common but does sound nice and is short so it's still on the table.
any thoughts please would be fab - thanks in advance
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Finca Flintstone
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Love it!!!Manchesteral wrote:Finca Flintstone
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Great suggestions but it's a cave so Finca won't work, also lots of Flintstons/barney rubble etc already in use, my real question is does Banco work in this context ie on the side of a hill/mountain reacher than a financial house?
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How about 'Loma Casa Soleado'? According to Google Translate, that means Sunny Hillside Home
More info on the word 'loma' here http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/tran ... %20soleado
Edit: On the same site - maybe 'ladera' would be better? http://www.wordreference.com/es/transla ... nword=Bank
More info on the word 'loma' here http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/tran ... %20soleado
Edit: On the same site - maybe 'ladera' would be better? http://www.wordreference.com/es/transla ... nword=Bank
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Why not just call it "Sunny Bank"?
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Orilla soleada
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Orilla is the sea shore. Ribera is better. Or you could just call it Solbank
This thread is a perfect example of how you cannot translate literally
This thread is a perfect example of how you cannot translate literally
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Orilla is fine because it doesn't always translate exactly as sea shore but sometimes as waterside.
You could visit this place for example
http://www.sanantonio.gov/riverwalkballroom/
You could visit this place for example
http://www.sanantonio.gov/riverwalkballroom/
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Or sunny hole in the wallMowser wrote:Caveo sunnyo?
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Do you mean Sunny Cashpoint?markwilding wrote:Or sunny hole in the wallMowser wrote:Caveo sunnyo?
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Good point.
Better not call it that.
I was thinking more of the Jesse James Hole in the wall gang
Better not call it that.
I was thinking more of the Jesse James Hole in the wall gang
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A few pubs are called the Hole in the Wall. Some might call asking for a cerveza
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cuesta - means a slope on a hill
I don't think you should be considering banco as this is normally a financial institution.
Encuesta - is a search ... you could use a play on words :
En-cuesta del sol - In search of the sun / in the sunny slope ??
I don't think you should be considering banco as this is normally a financial institution.
Encuesta - is a search ... you could use a play on words :
En-cuesta del sol - In search of the sun / in the sunny slope ??
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I would use something like..........cueva de ladera soleado.
imo ladera is the appropriate word, used in some form with the rest.
imo ladera is the appropriate word, used in some form with the rest.
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Omg this is proving very difficult !
Any thoughts on the word cool as in funky/ trendy ??
Or Indalo could I call it Cueva Indalo ?? Although it's more meaningful in the Almeria area but I like it and it's a good luck charm, any thoughts.
Although I still have not given up on Sunny Bank Cave and it must be cave as where we will be its almost part of the address, there must be a word that means the bank on a hill ( no water of any sort nearby)
Thanks a million
Any thoughts on the word cool as in funky/ trendy ??
Or Indalo could I call it Cueva Indalo ?? Although it's more meaningful in the Almeria area but I like it and it's a good luck charm, any thoughts.
Although I still have not given up on Sunny Bank Cave and it must be cave as where we will be its almost part of the address, there must be a word that means the bank on a hill ( no water of any sort nearby)
Thanks a million
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Right after months of trying to figure this out we have decided to keep it simple
It will be
Cueva Soleado
Sunny Cave says it all for us really - thank you all for your input
Have a lovely weekend
It will be
Cueva Soleado
Sunny Cave says it all for us really - thank you all for your input
Have a lovely weekend
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