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Abstract

ABSTRACT

This article focuses on explaining the most remarkable semantic and grammatical elements of the causative notion in both Spanish and German grammars. It also seeks to compare the similarities and differences in the ways of expressing causativity in both languages, a subject that has hardly been studied in contrastive grammar, and to provide the essential tools to translate and transfer the causative nuance of the verb lassen, as well as to compile the different uses of this verb.

In this regard, a study of Spanish and German grammars, the comparative grammar and the existing translation strategies is carried out. This analysis is then applied through the teaching of the various techniques and tools that are available for the translation of the verb lassen. This method is put into practice in a first-year subject of the Translation and Interpreting degree in the Complutense University of Madrid.