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Estar obligado a
Estar obligado a hacer algo.
Ej. LAs empresas españolas están obligadas a contratar a un tanto por ciento de minúsvalidos. How can we translate estar obligados in this sentence, to be forced to, sound very strong. |
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I would suggest obligated to "Spanish companies are obligated to hire a certain percentage of..."
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Another possiblity is "to be required to (do something)", which is essentially a synonym of "to be obligated to (do something)"
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Spanish businesses are legally required to employ a certain percentage of disabled people. |
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I also found To be obliged to, is it a synonym of Obligated?
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A driver is (legally) obliged to carry his/her driving licence when driving. |
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I agree with Perikles, but I somehow think that obliged is less rigid than obligated. In southeastern parts of the USA you may hear much obliged said instead of thank you--like the Portuguese obrigato (or is it obrigado). Nobody would say very obligated as a means of saying thank you.
For that reason I think obliged has a more flexible meaning.
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It's obrigado.
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