Usage examples of "el otro" in Spanish with translation to English

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Él tiene dos gatos: uno es negro y el otro blanco. He keeps two cats: one is black, and the other white.
Él es el chico del que hablamos el otro día. He is the boy of whom we spoke the other day.
Los Estados Unidos jamás le declararon la guerra a Hitler. Fue en el otro sentido. The USA never declared war on Hitler. It was the other way.
¿Y el otro? What about the other one?
Ellos confían el uno en el otro. They trust each other.
El otro no funciona. The other one doesn't work.
Tom es a quien Mary encontró el otro día. Tom is the man Mary met the other day.
¿En el arcoíris quién puede trazar la línea en la que el matiz violeta termina y comienza el naranja? Vemos con claridad la diferencia de los colores, pero ¿exactamente dónde empieza el uno a mezclarse con el otro? Lo mismo ocurre con la cordura y la locura. Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.
Uno se quedó y el otro se fue. One stayed and the other went away.
Un niño es más alto que el otro. One boy is taller than the other.
Ella se compró una casa nueva el otro día. She bought a new house the other day.
Compré este libro el otro día. I bought this book the other day.
El otro día su madre falleció en el hospital. The other day her mother passed away in the hospital.
Uno fue a pescar, el otro fue a comprar. One went fishing, another went shopping.
Gracias por el otro día. Thank you for the other day.
Mary intentaba empujar las palabras hacia el otro lado de la frase para hacer caer a Tom. Mary was attempting to push the words toward the other end of the sentence in order to dump Tom.
No me decepciones como el otro día. Don't let me down like you did the other day.
Tuvimos una charla seria el uno con el otro. We had a heart-to-heart talk with each other.
Esta pareja estaba hecha el uno para el otro. That couple was made for each other.
Ellos eran polarmente opuestos. Uno era honesto y confiable, mientras que el otro era impredecible e irresponsable. They were polar opposites: one was honest and reliable whilst the other was unpredictable and irresponsable.
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