Admites tu error, te disculpas, y sigues adelante

Question

Is this right, off the top of my head? Admit your error, apologize, and move on.... So te disculpas is apologize and is never "apologize to yourself " that would be "disculpa a ti mismo" or something along those lines? I wonder how you apologize to yourself. Gracias.

Answer 1

to apologize yourself... is "discúlpate a ti mismo"

and your translation is perfect...

Answer 2

So te disculpas is apologize and is never "apologize to yourself " that would be "disculpa a ti mismo" or something along those lines?

That's right. "Te disculpas" and "Te disculpas a ti mismo" are different sentences. "Disculpas" means to excuse or forgive (someone about something), "Te disculpas" is when you don't excuse or forgive others, but simply apologize, and "a ti mismo" is reflexive, which means that you are excusing or apologizing yourself, which sounds odd, at best.

Your English seems to use the command form, but your Spanish uses the present subjunctive, not the familiar, affirmative, command form.

I don't understand what you are saying. The sentence is using the present indicative, not subjunctive.

Sorry, I caught my error and corrected it. - 0074b507, Jan 5, 2011

It appeared to me that he was ending his familiar commands in "s" like negative familiar commands, so I confused myself into saying subjunctive. - 0074b507, Jan 5, 2011

Answer 3

Admit your error, apologize, and move on....

Your English seems to use the command form, but your Spanish uses the 2nd person, familiar, present indicative, not the familiar, affirmative, command (imperative mood) form.

It's not the command form. - jeezzle, Jan 5, 2011