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Old November 05, 2024, 08:21 AM
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Habrá que concluir

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La frase en cuestión es del libro Tinta invisible de Javier Peña.

Una casa de ladrillos mal cocidos

Kundera escribió que el novelista derriba la casa de su vida para, con sus ladrillos, construir la casa de su novela. Si hacemos caso al autor checo, habrá que concluir que es esencial que la casa de la vida del escritor esté hecha de buenos ladrillos.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft ha cautivado a varias generaciones con su capacidad para crear criaturas y universos extraños. Pero solo hace falta leer un par de párrafos suyos para percibir que sus historias, por apasionantes que puedan resultar, no están bien escritas. Su estilo es pedante y arcaico; sus personajes, superficiales; los diálogos no funcionan. ¿Creéis que es posible rastrear en su biografía el origen de las virtudes y carencias de sus textos?

Is "habrá que concluir" a simple future (we will have to conclude) or does "habrá que concluir" express a shade of probability (we perhaps will have to conclude, we might have to conclude)?

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Old November 05, 2024, 10:08 AM
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Is "habrá que concluir" a simple future (we will have to conclude) or does "habrá que concluir" express a shade of probability (we perhaps will have to conclude, we might have to conclude)?
Neither: the expression "haber que + infinitive" (always 3rd-person singular) is an impersonal expression used to say that an action is necessary or essential. You may have seen this more often in the present tense: "hay que + infinitive". So, "habrá que concluir" means "we will have to conclude".

This page discusses "haber que" and the similar expression "haber de".

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I agree.

I would translate it as "we are to conclude" in the sense "we should form an opinion", though.

In the example, the future is used to express we naturally arrive to a conclusion by following the previous steps in our reasoning
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