How to Translate Full Sentences From English to Spanish

Due to the rising number of Hispanics in the United States, many agencies, organizations and companies must translate their advertisements and documents to Spanish. Hispanics account for a particularly large segment of the population in states such as California, Florida and Texas. Those already familiar with Spanish can translate English sentences to Spanish with the aid of a bilingual dictionary. However, those unfamiliar with Spanish should use a translation program such as Google Translate.

Human Translation

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  Examine the text that you will translate. Underline the verbs and their subjects. Leave the other parts of speech unmarked.

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  Translate the verbs to Spanish. At this stage, only translate them into the infinitive.

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  Note the verb's subject and tense. Note if it is in present or past tense and if it is in indicative or subjunctive form.

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  Conjugate the verbs into Spanish. Type the infinitive into an online conjugator, such as verbix.com, and look for the correct subject and tense. For instance, the infinitive of "to eat" is "comer." But if "comer" is written in the first-person, past tense "I ate," then it becomes "comí­."

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  Translate the nouns into Spanish.

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  Translate the other parts of speech--articles, prepositions, conjunctions and adjectives--into Spanish. When translating adjectives, make sure the gender and number correspond with the noun. For example, "chicos" means "boys" in Spanish. Typically, words ending with "o" or "os" are masculine while words ending with "a" or "as" are feminine. If chicos is with an adjective, the adjective should end with an "os" and be plural.

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  Combine the words to form complete sentences.

Google Translate

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  Head to Google Translate's website at translate.google.com

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  Copy and paste the sentences that you want to translate into the text box.

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  Select English as the original language and Spanish as the target language.

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  Click "Translate."