Indica el medio o la persona con que se hace algo.
Indicates the means or the person by which something is done.
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Resolvimos el problema mediante una llamada. — We solved the problem with a phone call.
¿Se paga mediante tarjeta o en efectivo? — Do you pay by card or in cash?
El aviso llegó mediante un correo del banco. — The notice came in an email from the bank.
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Download the app for free Spanish vocabulary testA word for contracts, regulations and academic prose. In conversation a Spaniard says con or a través de and leaves mediante to the paperwork — much as English keeps by means of for documents and says with in speech.
The distinction that matters is against por: mediante names the means, por the cause or the doer. And mediante never takes de: mediante una llamada, never mediante de una llamada.
por because of, by
Names the cause or the agent, not the instrument. The line falls where English separates because of from by means of.
con with
The everyday word. Mediante beside it sounds like a form.
durante during
Time instead of means. The two words look alike enough to mislead learners regularly.
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