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Spanish term or phrase:
convivencia
English translation:
day-to-day dealings with each other/day-to-day life together
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Noni Gilbert Riley
Nov 15, 2011 02:20
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Spanish term
convivencia
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Lo que necesito decir es : "La convivencia era muy difícil porque todos tenían poca tolerancia y flexibilidad."
Me refiero a vida que comparten estas personas todos los dias, pueden ser miembros de una familia o incluso ser parte de un grupo de trabajo.
La convivencia implica estar al mismo tiempo y en el mismo lugar interactuando con otras personas. Esta convivencia a veces es buena, a veces es aceptable y a veces se torna difícil y hasta imposible. Depende de la flexibilidad de las personas que conviven. Busco una palabra informal ya que es para enseñarselas a unos chicos. "coexistence" is too formal. What I need is closely related to getting along ...
Me refiero a vida que comparten estas personas todos los dias, pueden ser miembros de una familia o incluso ser parte de un grupo de trabajo.
La convivencia implica estar al mismo tiempo y en el mismo lugar interactuando con otras personas. Esta convivencia a veces es buena, a veces es aceptable y a veces se torna difícil y hasta imposible. Depende de la flexibilidad de las personas que conviven. Busco una palabra informal ya que es para enseñarselas a unos chicos. "coexistence" is too formal. What I need is closely related to getting along ...
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Noni Gilbert Riley
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day-to-day dealings with each other/day-to-day life together
I think this might fit into your sentence.
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Damian Hosford
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living together
You could also say "convivial living", which is a little more formal.
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David Hollywood
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freddipoo
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coexistence
Coexistence is a term that has been used synonymously in several contexts and used as a key phrase in the emergence of a number of great social and political movements. The key characteristic in the definition of the word coexistence is its relation with its ‘others’ and the acknowledgement that an ‘others’ exists
http://www.gppac.net/documents/pbp_f/part1/5_coexis.htm
http://www.gppac.net/documents/pbp_f/part1/5_coexis.htm
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Daniel Frisano
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being together all the time
if you need something that a kid would understand, you probably need to expand a bit
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Henry Hinds
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to get along
La convivencia era muy difícil porque todos tenían poca tolerancia y flexibilidad = It was hard for them to get along because they were all rather intolerant and inflexible
What you really need, then, is to break loose from the original words and go with the idea in a direction like this.
What you really need, then, is to break loose from the original words and go with the idea in a direction like this.
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David Hollywood
: nice Henry :) a good way of getting the meaning across
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Jessica Noyes
: Yes, or "getting along was difficult because...."
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Gracias, Jessica.
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Gracias, Claudia.
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Gracias, Gracie.
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Gracias, María.
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Gracias, Sonia.
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(There was a lack of) harmony
Another approach. "There was a lack of harmony because no one was very tolerant or flexible." or "The was very little (peace and) harmony because they all were intolerant and inflexible." In the case of 2 people, "both" instead of "all" in the second option.
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being on top of one another / not having their own individual space
it means the people could not get away from one another even though they desperately needed their own "space"
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