I hope you don't expect ...

Question

What would be the best translation for the following sentence?

"I hope you don't expect me to wait for you".

a) Espero que no esperes de mi que te espere.

b) Espero que no esperes (tú) que te espere.

P.S. In my opinion, it's a hard sentence to translate into Spanish. The translation sounds a little odd to me. It's almost like a tongue-twister! ( hehe)

Answer 1

Espero que no pretendas que te espere.

Espero que no aspires a que te espere.

Confío en que no esperes a que aguarde por ti.

Tengo la esperanza de que no pretendas que te espere.

Answer 2

In one song by Shakira, she made a play on words by saying:

Espero que no esperes que te espere...

I think this means what you're trying to say, but it's purposely redundant for poetic style, so I would go with one of Francobollo's suggestions if you're not writing a poem/song.

Answer 3

Espero que no esperes que te espere

Answer 4

no pienses que te voy a esperar.. maybe???

don't think i am going to wait for you....

I am not sure if this is correct or not though...