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amigo secreto

English translation: secret Santa / secret gift game

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Spanish term or phrase:amigo secreto
English translation:secret Santa / secret gift game
Entered by: Margarita Palatnik (X)

11:00 Jul 26, 2004
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
Spanish term or phrase: amigo secreto
o el equivalente de ese juego típico de oficinas y grupos de amigos?... Gracias, ALEJANDRA
Alejandra Villarroel
Chile
Local time: 07:41
secret Santa / secret gift game
Explanation:
Si no estas jugando en navidad, secret gift game

Boston.com / Your Life / Special sections / Holiday Giving ...
... The secret Santa must surreptitiously bestow simple gifts on the recipient whose
name they've chosen. On the last day of the game, the secret Santa is ...
www.boston.com/yourlife/specials/giving/ articles/2003/12/14/office_gift_swap_joys_and_perils/ - 26k

Best Cheapest Gift Shops Online UK Christmas Birthday Wedding ...
... way to embarass your workmates for the secret santa gifts ... party bag, party box, pinata,
party game, balloon, candle ... more they have a tell a friend scheme, where ...
www.webcreationz.co.uk/shopping-online-for-gifts.php - 83k
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Margarita Palatnik (X)
Local time: 08:41
Grading comment
Great!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +8secret Santa / secret gift game
Margarita Palatnik (X)
5 +1Secret Santa
James Stevens-Arce
4 +1confidant (male) // confidante (female)
Michael Powers (PhD)
5invisible or secret friend
Sandy T
5secret pal
Yvette Arcelay (X)
4secret friend
jomasaov (X)
3 +1secret Santa
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
confidant (male) // confidante (female)


Explanation:
Creo que te refieres a este amigo secreto (amiga secreta).

Mike :)

Michael Powers (PhD)
United States
Local time: 07:41
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 209

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  mcguegan
4 mins
  -> Thank you, mcguegan - Mike :)
neutral  nothing: Michael. It's a game where people at work take names out of a hat and buy a present for that person. Thus, everybody gets presents and they don't know who bought them. I never heard of anything like that in English, but maybe you know whether it exists
5 mins
  -> Totally unaware of this game
neutral  Morgan Malvoso: In the US we call this game "secret santa" because it's normally done around Christmas.
52 mins
  -> Totally unaware of this game
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
secret friend


Explanation:
en España amigo invisible

jomasaov (X)
Local time: 13:41
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  nothing: Secret friend is a completely different game, that has to do with communication, not gifts
5 mins
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36 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
invisible or secret friend


Explanation:
En Argentina, se dice 'amigo invisible'
By the way, I did not know it was still played...It reminds me of school days!! :-)

Sandy T
United States
Local time: 07:41
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +8
secret Santa / secret gift game


Explanation:
Si no estas jugando en navidad, secret gift game

Boston.com / Your Life / Special sections / Holiday Giving ...
... The secret Santa must surreptitiously bestow simple gifts on the recipient whose
name they've chosen. On the last day of the game, the secret Santa is ...
www.boston.com/yourlife/specials/giving/ articles/2003/12/14/office_gift_swap_joys_and_perils/ - 26k

Best Cheapest Gift Shops Online UK Christmas Birthday Wedding ...
... way to embarass your workmates for the secret santa gifts ... party bag, party box, pinata,
party game, balloon, candle ... more they have a tell a friend scheme, where ...
www.webcreationz.co.uk/shopping-online-for-gifts.php - 83k

Margarita Palatnik (X)
Local time: 08:41
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Great!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  PB Trans
2 mins
  -> thanks
agree  Morgan Malvoso
3 mins
  -> thanks
agree  Michael Powers (PhD): I was totally unaware of this game. - Mike :)
5 mins
  -> Thanks Michael! You are lucky, that means you may not have been exposed to greeting cards circulating all over the office demanding indiscriminate signing, or or work-mates who dress in orange-black for halloween, in red-green for Xmas...:-)
agree  James Stevens-Arce
5 mins
  -> Thanks!
agree  Marocas
5 mins
  -> Thanks!
agree  Xenia Wong
8 mins
  -> thanks Xenia!
agree  nothing: That's more like it
52 mins
agree  María Teresa González Núñez
1 hr
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Secret Santa


Explanation:
Si te refieres a la costumbre en algunas oficinas de repartirse los nombres de los empleados al azar para que cada persona le compre un regalo de navidad a uno de sus compañeros, sin que nadie sepa a quién le tocó regalarle a él, entonces al menos en Estados Unidos sería "Secret Santa".

James Stevens-Arce
United States
Local time: 07:41
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  PB Trans
0 min
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
secret Santa


Explanation:
We call it "secret Santa" but only at Christmas time, of course.

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Note added at 1 hr 17 mins (2004-07-26 12:17:55 GMT)
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I would suggest \"secret gift exchange\" if it is not at Christmas.

Secret Gift Exchange Participants
Secret Gift Exchange Participants. For this year\'s holiday season, we\'ve planned another secret gift exchange. Basically, people sign up, and then they\'re randomly assigned to give gifts to another participant.
www-hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~alchen/family_room/xmas2002/giftExchange.cgi

Dave\'s Garden: Home and Crafts: Who Would Be Interested In This?
Forum: Home and Crafts. Total Replies: 101. Author. Content. CoCo. Aug 16, 2002. 9:44 AM. Was thinking about a Christmas craft round-robin for subscribed, paid members only. ... Lenjo; you\'re thinking more like a secret gift exchange,right? Not a bad idea ... 7:10 AM. IF: Secret Gift Exchange - I\'m in. ...
www.davesgarden.com/t/326229
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ChristmasInfo
... Christmas Social & Secret Gift Exchange Information. The Christmas Social will be held on Wednesday, December 3rd ... We are also having a secret gift exchange at the Christmas Social ...
www.ymbs.com/ChristmasInfo.html
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Good Grief, Charlie Brown! 2002-2003
File type:PDF - Download PDF Reader
... Linus)You can sign up for Secret Santa, as well as Secret Gift Exchange, at the Thanksgiving Potluck ... at the Christmas Party. Secret Gift Exchange participants will also be revealed ...
www.mbccmariners.com/m2003/log/lognov02.pdf


By the way, I just found out \"Secret Santa\" is called \"Criscringle\" in Australia!

Do you ever participate in the secret exchange of gifts at Christmas time where everyone has to get something for someone else but no one knows who is buying for who? Here in Australia we call it Criscringle in other places its called \'Secret Santa\'.
http://www.livingroom.org.au/blog/archives/secret_santa_blog...



PB Trans
Local time: 12:41
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  James Stevens-Arce
3 mins
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
secret pal


Explanation:
just an option

Yvette Arcelay (X)
Local time: 07:41
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in EnglishEnglish
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