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Old May 30, 2023, 07:05 AM
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To be held accountable

Would you translate, you will be held accountable for your misdemeanor, as
tendrá que rendir cuentas por su delito?
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Yes. Maybe also "asumir la responsabilidad de su delito" or "hacerse responsable de...".
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"ser responsabilizado"???

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"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.
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Ah, ok, passive voice.

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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.

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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.
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