taconear

English translation: to tap your feet

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Spanish term or phrase:taconear
English translation:to tap your feet
Entered by: patinba

14:16 Feb 18, 2021
Spanish to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
Spanish term or phrase: taconear
Buenos,

¿Ustedes serían tan amables de ayudarme a traducir el verbo "taconear"?

Esta sería la oración completa: "La niña de las azucenas aplaude y taconea".

Contexto: la oración pertenence a un poema que habla del cumpleaños de una niña en un bosque.

Lo traduje como: "stomps her heels", pero también encontré "click her heels".

Muchas gracias.
José Pablo Corrales
Costa Rica
to tap your feet
Explanation:
Seems likely : "claps and taps her feet"
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patinba
Argentina
Local time: 10:53
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Summary of answers provided
3 +3to tap your feet
patinba
4 +1clack your heels
philgoddard
4to tap dance
Francois Boye


  

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to tap your feet


Explanation:
Seems likely : "claps and taps her feet"

patinba
Argentina
Local time: 10:53
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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agree  neilmac: Rhymes with "birthday treat"....
53 mins
  -> Good one, Neil!

agree  Yvonne Gallagher
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agree  Linda Grabner
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50 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
clack your heels


Explanation:
http://en.bab.la/dictionary/spanish-english/taconear

As in flamenco. This person considers various possible translations, but doesn't think of "clack" and renders it as "make music with your feet", which is kind of OK.
http://www.experienceflamenco.com/blog/2015/12/taconear-vier...

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And it's not the same as clicking your heels, which is tapping your shoes against each other.

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I think this is definitely a pro question. I'd never come across the word before, and had to research it.

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Clack is something you do on a hard surface. If this is a forest, stomp would work.

philgoddard
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 64

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  neilmac: Rhymes with "feels"....
33 mins

neutral  Francois Boye: this is called tap dancing in the United States of America
7 days
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
to tap dance


Explanation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCbTQyimAMg

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tap_dance

Francois Boye
United States
Local time: 09:53
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 8
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