Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
tu sola presencia
English translation:
for you to be here / your presence alone
Added to glossary by
Yvonne Becker
Oct 15, 2006 18:32
17 yrs ago
Spanish term
Also an Engineer
Native in: Spanish (Variant: Venezuelan)
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, Spanish
tu sola presencia
Spanish to English
Art/Literary
Poetry & Literature
Estoy traduciendo la letra de una canción:
"Mi piel que arde
aunque no estás cerca
Mis labios que anhelan
**tu sola presencia**
Mi alma te llama
con dulce cadencia
Mi mente te ansía
y mi voluntad se quiebra"
¿Estaría bien "your simple presence"?
"Mi piel que arde
aunque no estás cerca
Mis labios que anhelan
**tu sola presencia**
Mi alma te llama
con dulce cadencia
Mi mente te ansía
y mi voluntad se quiebra"
¿Estaría bien "your simple presence"?
Proposed translations
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Proposed translations
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for you to be here
My skin is burning
although you're not near,
My lips are yearning
for you to be here.
although you're not near,
My lips are yearning
for you to be here.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Muchas gracias a todos. Me quedo con esta sugerencia que, si bien le da una vuelta a la oración, me facilita la métrica y la rima"
2 mins
Karin Kutscher
Native in Spanish
Works in field
ATA Cert Eng>Spa, IT, Medical, Telcom
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English
just for you being there
Para no ser literal....
"my lips longing / just for you being there"
"my lips longing / just for you being there"
Peer comment(s):
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Monica Colangelo
: 100% de acuerdo. Saludos, Karin
8 mins
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mguedenet
: i'm sorry, but this sentence is not grammatically correct in English!
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3 mins
Margarita Ezquerra (Smart Translators, S.L.)
Spain
Spain
Native in Spanish
Spain
Margarita Ezquerra (Smart Translators, S.L.)
Accredited translators 20 yrs experience
Native in: Spanish
Works in: English to Spanish, Spanish to English, French to Spanish
Related KudoZ points
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84
your mere presence / your sole presence
Suerte
Peer comment(s):
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Maria Garcia
: me quedo con your mere presence
9 mins
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Gracias María
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Maria Tsatsaroni
: More inclined toward "your sole presence", but I fully agree with both, unless you need to keep the rhyme in English
12 mins
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Many thanks María
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Margarita Gonzalez
13 mins
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Gracias MargaEsther
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trans4u
: Yes. "Your sole presence" is it!
23 mins
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Many thanks trans4u
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kironne
: your mere presence
1 hr
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Many thanks kironne
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Barbara Cochran, MFA
: I have to go against Maria T. and trans4u. "Mere presence" gets my vote.
3 hrs
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many thanks femme
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Roxanna Delgado
: Your mere presence, for me.
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Many thanks Roxanna
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Francisco Rodriguez
6 hrs
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Thanks Francisco
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Silvia Brandon-Pérez
: Your sole presence
7 hrs
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many thanks silviantonia
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6 mins
your sweet presence
another possibility
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Note added at 6 mins (2006-10-15 18:38:56 GMT)
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unless "dulce cadencia" needs "sweet", of course!
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Note added at 6 mins (2006-10-15 18:38:56 GMT)
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unless "dulce cadencia" needs "sweet", of course!
12 mins
Marina Herrera
Native in Spanish
&
English
Specializes in field
1.2 million words translated in 2010
Native in: English 
, Spanish
Works in: French to English, Spanish to English, English to Spanish
Related KudoZ points
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12
only your presence
sole no es simple; diría que es más cerca de "only". También, en el caso de una canción deberás tener en cuenta el número de sílabas y la asonancia de lo que usas para el resto del verso.
+2
47 mins
MaryAnn Diorio, PhD, MA
Native in English
Specializes in field
"Excellence with Integrity"
Native in: Italian , English
Works in: Italian to English, French to English, Spanish to English
your presence alone
Since this is a poem, it requires a poetic tone in the translation.
Peer comment(s):
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Barbara Cochran, MFA
: I like this, too. Good point about the need to retain a poetic tone.
3 hrs
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Rolando Julio Arciniega
: "Your mere presence" and Your sole presence " sounds stilted and does not flow as well. I'd stick with "Your presence alone".
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