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heathesq

Mar 6, 2004, 1:36 PM

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Naming Our House

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Our house has the same street number as one a few blocks away on the same street. Frequent confusion.

Accordingly, we plan to name it, The Empty Nest.

Babelfish says this translates to La jerarquia vacia. But I would prefer something like, El nido vacia, because my friends recognize nido and not jerarquia. Given that I am in a spanish-speaking country and do not want to sound silly, can someone tell me what to use.

Roger Heath

Nokia Boy

Mar 6, 2004, 1:46 PM

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If you want to attach to the formal translation for "The Empty Nest", then you should use "El Nido Vacío" since vacía is an adjective for a femenine noun, and nido is "masculine".

Saludos!

Nokia Boy

ziret

Apr 15, 2004, 9:08 PM

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I have a similar question Roger, as there are three number 8 houses in three blocks and one of them is mine. Most houses I see are named for a person. Is it OK to name it something like you have in mind? I want to name mine The Crow's Nest. What is the tradition here?

Teri

quevedo

Apr 16, 2004, 4:43 PM

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El Nido del Cuervo. Buen nombre me parece.

Un saludo cordial,

Quevedo

ziret

Apr 16, 2004, 8:30 PM

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Thanks. It's because I live on a hill just around the corner from Callejon Mr. Crowe and the house has a bird's eye view of the lake.

Teri