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    Default Te voy a echar de menos , Randall .

    Dante : Preferiría que supieran que no soy un gilipollas .
    Randall : Es tarde para eso !
    Dante : Te voy a echar de menos , Randall .

    In the English version of the movie , this last line is : " I'm really gonna miss you , Randall" , delivered with some irony .
    But I can't see how to get to that from " Te voy a echar de menos , Randall " , which seems to me ..... ' I'm going to thow/put on you lesser/least/ a minus , Randall ' .
    What literally does the Spanish mean ?

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    Default Re: Te voy a echar de menos , Randall .

    Actually, the translation of the movie is correct. In Spanish, "Echar de menos" is a way of saying "to miss someone."

    Hope it helps =)

    Regards!

    L.

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    Default Re: Te voy a echar de menos , Randall .

    >>But I can't see how to get to that from " Te voy a echar de menos , Randall " , which seems to me ..... ' I'm going to thow/put on you lesser/least/ a minus , Randall ' .
    What literally does the Spanish mean ?<<

    If you translate word by word literally, you'd get something like what you wrote put / minus, etc.

    But it is rather an idiomatic expression. Echar de menos means to miss someone. Therefore, Te voy a echar de menos , Randall is a good translation. It sounded weird to you because you didn't know the expression, now you do.

    In Venezuela we say te voy a extrañar meaning I am going to miss you.

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    Default Re: Te voy a echar de menos , Randall .

    There's probably an etymological history that would shed some light on how "echar de menos" came to mean "to miss someone".

    There are a lot of idiomatic expressions in English as well. For example:
    I don't think I can pull that off?
    The project is under way.
    It ended up being successful.

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    Default Re: Te voy a echar de menos , Randall .

    Thankyou , fellows .

    Chris

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