To be held accountable
 

Would you translate, you will be held accountable for your misdemeanor, as
tendrá que rendir cuentas por su delito?

Yes. Maybe also "asumir la responsabilidad de su delito" or "hacerse responsable de...". :)

"ser responsabilizado"???

silopanna Dean

"Ser responsabilizado" is passive voice, and it would mean that someone would blame you for something, whether you did it or not.

- A mi hermano lo responsabilizaron de haber atacado al policía, pero él no estaba en ese lugar.
My brother was blamed for attacking the policeman, but he was somewhere else.

EDIT: This sentence was not using "Ser responsabilizado". This is the sentence I should have written:
- Mi hermano fue responsabilizado por haber atacado al policía, pero él no estaba en ese lugar.


In this case "responsabilizarse" is a better option to talk about someone who actively assumes responsibility for something. :)

- Si no te responsabilizas de tus actos, nunca voy a confiar en ti.
If you don't assume responsibility for what you do, I'll never trust you.
- Si no enseñas a los niños a responsabilizarse de sus tareas en la casa, siempre van a depender de ti.
If you don't teach your children to be responsible of their chores, they will always depend on you.

Angelica,

Ah, ok, passive voice.

Dean

Angélica,

I follow the edit.

I had just thought that you wrote abut the passive voice, and then went on to write it the other way. Now i see that it is a noce exampple of what you wrote.

Dean

We don't use passive voice so much, so I just wrote the sentence as I would have said it, but obviously, I should have payed attention to write the example with "ser responsabilizado", which was the topic here. Sorry for creating confusion. :blackeye: