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[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by chileno

Yo trato de evitar ese uso porque la mayoria piensa o puede pensar que es una obligación. En cambio cuando uno dice "debería de", inmediatamente "should" comes to mind.

The word "should" is a strange animal. It can mean obligation. But I agree your translation is not only good, but probably better than mine.

[chileno]

Originally Posted by Tomisimo

The word "should" is a strange animal. It can mean obligation. But I agree your translation is not only good, but probably better than mine.

No. Yours is better because is the correct one, however,when dealing with most people in Spanish de translation "should" be debería or debiera instead of debe "must" which is a real obligation. Something like yes or yes...

[Tomisimo]

You're right it can be ambiguous. Sometimes I translate like this:

You must ...
Tienes que ...
Estás obligado a ...
Tienes la obligación de ...

[chileno]

Originally Posted by Tomisimo

You're right it can be ambiguous. Sometimes I translate like this:

You must ...
Tienes que ...
Estás obligado a ...
Tienes la obligación de ...

Exactly. It is because in English you have that difference between must and should whereas the difference in Spanish is between debe and debiera. (IIRC and I am not messing up)

[bobjenkins]

Originally Posted by chileno

No. Yours is better because is the correct one, however,when dealing with most people in Spanish de translation "should" be debería or debiera instead of debe "must" which is a real obligation. Something like yes or yes...

He leído en el libro que es así, ¿puedes decirme si tengo razón?

Debes - you ought to
Deberías - you should
Debieras - you really should

La urgencia del verbo se pongo más fuerte, debes - deberías - debieras

[Tomisimo]

Originally Posted by bobjenkins

He leído en el libro que es así, ¿puedes decirme si tengo razón?

Debes - you ought to
Deberías - you should
Debieras - you really should

La urgencia del verbo se pongo más fuerte, debes - deberías - debieras

Hmmm. No me convence.

debes = you must, you have to
deberías = you should
debieras = you should (some consider this wrong usage)

[ookami]

I'm with Tomisimo, debieras and deberías as synonym. (for me debieras is ok, not common but correct)

[bobjenkins]

Originally Posted by Tomisimo

Hmmm. No me convence.

debes = you must, you have to
deberías = you should
debieras = you should (some consider this wrong usage)

Originally Posted by ookami

I'm with Tomisimo, debieras and deberías as synonym. (for me debieras is ok, not common but correct)

Bueno gracias