supposed to represent

Hola. ¿Cómo se traduce "supposed to represent" en la frase siguiente?: A creature extremely diminutive in stature and painfully lean in person, clad in tight trousers and a jacket covered with buttons, supposed to represent his rank as a page, answered the door.
Gracias por la ayuda.

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Originally Posted by Antonio J.

Hola. ¿Cómo se traduce "supposed to represent" en la frase siguiente?: A creature extremely diminutive in stature and painfully lean in person, clad in tight trousers and a jacket covered with buttons, supposed to represent his rank as a page, answered the door.
Gracias por la ayuda.

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Creo que se refiere a la chaqueta que indica su posición o puesto como paje.

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Originally Posted by Antonio J.

Hola. ¿Cómo se traduce "supposed to represent" en la frase siguiente?: A creature extremely diminutive in stature and painfully lean in person, clad in tight trousers and a jacket covered with buttons, supposed to represent his rank as a page, answered the door.
Gracias por la ayuda.

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If you skip all the adjectives, the sentence subject is creature. Something like this:
A creature supposed to represent ....
Therefore, the translation would be
Una persona que se suponia representaba su rango como paje .... Etc

Haha...you're probably right California but I'm not sure...

I read it like: "A creature...answered the door." In between I read that he was small and wearing a jacket that represented his rank as a page.

i must say it is nice and good shared.

Hi everybody,

I agree with vicente, though it is a rather ambiguous sentence. :confused:

"se supone que representa"

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Originally Posted by estefaniar

Hi everybody,

I agree with vicente, though it is a rather ambiguous sentence. :confused:

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Very true estafaniar. It can easily be interpreted both ways. :p