Spanish Language Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for linguists, teachers, students and Spanish language enthusiasts in general wanting to discuss the finer points of the language. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
Weird, because now some are denying this
I'd say something like:
Es raro/extraño porque ahora algunos estan negando?
What is a correct translation? Should I use negando or another? It sounds weird. And what would be the correct translation of "this" in the sentence above? esto?
I suppose that this refers to something that has been already introduced in the conversation, and is something known by the people speaking. So I would translate to something like this:
Me extraña, porque ahora algunos lo están negando.
Note that weird is a personal opinion, so I tried to emphasise that in the translation. Other possible not-so-literal translations that respect the original meaning could be:
Me extraña, porque ahora hay gente que lo niega.
Pues resulta que ahora algunos lo niegan.
Literal version is:
Extraño/raro, porque ahora algunos están negando esto.
However, ahora looks better in this position:
Extraño/raro, porque algunos están negando esto ahora.
In some translations, you'll see a swap between the present continuous tense and the present simple tense:
Extraño/raro, porque algunos niegan esto.
Anyhow, the three are perfectly idiomatic.
