"Hasta ahora, lo odio."
Translation:Up until now, I hate it.
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Until now, I hate it (accepted). This, however, is not the best translation...So far I hate it. is probably the best translation. Q: How is German class? A: So far I hate it. Hasta is an interesting word because it is one of those Arabic words that (mixed with some Latin) appears in Spanish.
I hate it until now is not really good.English. Although until now is a valid translation for hasta ahora in some cases, it has a slightly different meaning than so far, and that difference affects tense somewhat. When you say so far, you are acknowleging that things may change in the future, but the statement is correct for the present. When you say until now, you are suggesting that the change is happening now so the present perfect tense is used. That would be Until now I have hated it. But the same is true in Spanish and the tense of the Spanish tends to dictate the translation.
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Translating something word-for-word makes no sense. Unless there is an EXACT translation of "so far" in Spanish that I have not yet learned, it should be "so far."
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Hola honourconeeel: Yes, "hasta ahora" means "so far" or "up to now". I don't know how this got to be such a long discussion. It is very simple. I also do not know why someone gave you a "down arrow" because what you said is correct. I gave you an "up" to make it even.
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Some dictionaries give "so far = hasta ahora," so I hope if you notified DL, it may be added some day.
I don't think I've ever heard someone say "Up until now, I hate it... even in the movies. Who are you anyway? Do you talk during the movies? I like to watch a movie and then say. "I hated it!"
this is probably one of those sentences - like many other sentences - that you can not translate word for word... I'm sure the Spanish speaking world uses "Hasta ahora, lo odio", the way the English speaking world uses "Up to now, I hated it."
:-)
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Hola Pericoro61: No, sorry. It is present tense. It is very simple: "Lo odio" = "I hate it" .... that is, right now, present, that is the way I feel right now. It is not in the past.
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Your alternative "Up to now, I hated it." is grammatically incorrect. You could say "Up to 5 minutes ago, I hated it.", but as soon as you say "now" you are forcing it into the present, and can only use the present tense.
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I totally disagree with this: exactly because it's "up until now" that forces it into the past. If you have "up to 5 minutes ago" that kind of forces it even into past perfect. "I had hated it up until five minutes ago when you told me it was awesome." And this is english.
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I ended up checking a grammar reference just to be sure. The inclusion of "now" does rule out any past tense.
Probably the best tense to use when referring to something that is "up to now" is the Present Perfect Simple... "Up to now I have hated it" = "Hasta ahora he lo odiado".
But that is not the sentence given (perhaps because it's a little too complex for this level). The sentence given is in the present tense, so you must translate into the present tense.
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Using present perfect in English would work, though Present perfect is also often used to express things that are still happening. Like "I've lived here for five years (and I still do)." From my experience, though, present perfect is a bit more variable in spanish, including regional variation (my mexican friends kept correcting me when I'd use it the way I was taught in Spain which was to express any relatively recent past). I'm also not sure if I agree with tense-to-tense translation because not everything is always equivalent, and I'm personally always more focused on preserving the meaning, rather than making everything match up, because the more different languages are the less you're able to do it and I don't think it's good practice. That's why I was questioning the actual meaning of the sentence, i.e. what the speaker is trying to say. Because if the meaning is "I've hated it up until now" I'd rather translate it that way, because "Up until now, I hate it" sounds both weird and has a different meaning (the first one implies a change in opinion, the second one doesn't)... If the meaning is "so far I hate it," which would align the tenses as well, then that is better translation.
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There are plenty of examples in native English where past tense is used with the word "now". "He used to want to be a star. Now he just wanted to find a job." Now doesn't mean the exact present moment in which the speaker is expressing himself. It can instead mark a specific moment in the timeline of a story.
As for "until now I -verb-", you CANNOT conjugate that verb in present tense in English. Think of " until" as an open bracket in mathematics. The verb is done up to but not including the moment of, in this case, now. A closed bracket would be something like the word "even" to express continuity. "Even now I -verb-". With "even" you can conjugate in the present.
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Just a small note: "Hasta ahora he lo odiado" would be ungrammatical. It would have to be "lo he odiado". (The clitic has to come either before the main verb of the clause -- which is "he" here -- or, if you have a complex verb using progressive or infinitive forms, and the pronoun is the object, then it can be attached to the end. Estoy odiándolo. I'm hating it. Puedo odiarlo. I can hate it.)
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Hola xtempore: I especially like your last sentence. When translating we cannot just choose to translate something one way because we think it sounds better! If it is present tense, we must translate it as present tense. Gracias.
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HOla namayani: sorry, no. There is nothing in the sentence to indicate past tense. "So far, I hate it" : present tense, right now, it is happening now, present. Not past.
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If "hasta ahora" translates to "so far", then the present tense ending "I hate it" is acceptable. The confusion, for those who speak English as their primary language, is that "Up until now" (another translation offered) cannot be used with present tense if you wish to be grammatically correct.
"Up until now" implies that the events you are about to discuss happened "before now" meaning prior to this moment (thus the need for past tense.)
Up until now, I was hungry. (past) Now, I am eating. (present)
Up until now, I was on crutches. (past) Now, the doctor says I can walk without them. (present)
Up until now, I liked the movie. (past) Now, I think it is too violent. (present)
Up until now, the car worked fine. (past) Now, it won't start. (present).
Hope that clears up some of the confusion. :-)
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We really would NOT say it as worded in English. "So far, I hate it" would be a better translation. "Up until now" implies that it has NOW changed. Which would force usage of the past tense.
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Right. Up to now, I hate it. makes no sense in English. It would be past tense with up to now as in, Up to now, I hated it.
I don't like Up to now, though sounds weird. I would say
Until now, I hated it. or Up until now, I hated it.
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It's valid English. E.g. We're in a movie, and you ask "What do you think of it so far", and I say "Up to now, I hate it".
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I find "up until now, I hated it" and "so far, I hate it" to have completely different meanings—which one of these does the spanish sentence in question translate to?
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Hola namayani: "Up until now" and "so far" both mean the same thing. The sentence could be translated with either one of these phrases.
Agreed, you can only use the present it in English if you explicitly include now like you did or with something like "through." The best translation is probably just to use the past.
Actually present perfect would work well in English. So far I have hated it. Perfect tenses talk about previous actions that have current signficance. I think that would also work in Spanish. How do you like the movie (in progress) So far I have hated it (implying that might change)
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Hola vandermonde: No, sorry, It is present tense. "Lo odio" = "I hate it" -- that is, NOW, present tense, not past.
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4 years later and I answered this way also. After reading others' responses, I'm still not convinced that "Even now, I hate it" is wrong. In a wordy way, I interpret "hasta" as "up to and including" which is not the sentiment I would infer if someone said "Until now" (I would interpret this as a departure from how things were before: "Until now I didn't like that guy" would imply to me that I do now like him, though in the past I did not). The phrase "hasta ahora ...", I would understand as "up to and including now ..." which is the same sentiment I gather from "even now..."
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Yup, I've heard this usage too. "See you shortly/soon/in a bit/in a minute".
Something to keep in mind, although it's obviously not applicable in this context.
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Well, I live in Granada and they say it there. My girlfriend is also Mexican(Hermosillo) and her friends/family use it that way too.
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the fast version sounds different than the slow version.
Indeed, the fast version seems to contract hasta and ahora. Quite incomprehensible..
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Yeah, it's tricky but that's the way Spanish is. Vowels get run into each other, "s" sometimes goes unpronounced, and they speak at a million miles an hour. There is no "slow button" in the real world.
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lol When I came across despacio in a lesson I memorized it right away because I knew it would be very useful.
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I answered "I hate it so far" this was incorrect as of 02.02.2016 .. . . Help please .. why is this incorrect? ?
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Just to confirm something...if you wanted to say i hate him would it have been 'LE odio'?
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No it will be "lo odio". Because le is an indirect object pronoun and lo is a direct object pronoun.
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This is incorrect English. We would not say "Until now I hate it." It should be "hated" or "So far I hate it".
Yes, exactly. I did 'hated', and it said wrong. 'Hate' is incorrect in this sentance
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What about "I hate it, until now". I know its technically phrased backwards, but conveys the same meaning.
It is actually a common expression, but it is unclear how much the up adds to it, and you almost never see it in a subordinate clause that begins the sentence.
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/279822/what-is-the-difference-between-until-and-up-until
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["up to" = hasta] Por ejemplo: Elimina hasta 2 semanas de problemas. (Eliminates up to two weeks of problems.)
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Because "hasta ahora" means "until now" or "up to now". To say "even now" would be "aún ahora".
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Hola Fluent2B: Sorry, no. "hasta ahora" means "so far" or "up til now" To confirm, check any good Spanish/English dictionary.
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The audio for "odio" was unintelligible at either speed. How annoying to be "taught" by forced error.
I think that the audio can get a little glitchy during heavy use. I don't know whether it is automatically repaired somehow or it only happens when many users are on, but it generally gets repaired. At least the audio from the comment section is fine at the moment.
I'm a native English speaker. I would not say "Up until now I hate it." If I heard someone say this, I would think the speaker doesn't have a great handle of tenses, and understand it to mean something like "Until now, I have hated it" or maybe "I still hate it." I'm not saying it's an incorrect statement in Spanish; the translation provided doesn't make sense in English though.
I don't disagree that up until now sounds funky, but I have heard it by native speakers. They weren't the most educated speakers, though.
It's not "up until now" that I have issue with, it's adding simply "I hate it" to those words. I don't think the combination of tenses makes sense. I agree that people sometimes say things that way. I just don't think it's "good" grammar. (I realize I probably sounded arrogant in my comment, but just wanted to be clear on where I was coming from).
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Should be stated as... Until now, I hated it. Anything that is before "now" has to be in the "past". So it should be stated as "hated" and written in Spanish as so. My two cents.
This is not good English. "Up until now" implies that a change has taken place. Q: Do you like spinach? A: Up until today I hated it, but now I like it.
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I think that "I hated it" would work better in this situation. This just sounds a little bit off.
But identifying and using the correct tense is one of the major focuses of Duo. This sentence is in the present tense, and isn't a standard expression so it must be translated as written.
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I know, it just feels like this exact phrase probably was not the best choice. It just feels awkward to say in English
I agree. Some Duo sentences are equally awkward in Spanish, but this one is certainly not common so I cannot be sure. But, to be honest, I often assume that it would be.
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Microsoft translator just translated this as "So far, I hate it," which has the advantage of making sense.
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So stilted. Poor English."until now I hate it" (present tense)!,,,,,,, More accurate is until today,I hated it
