"You look like just my father"
how can we say? you look like just my father?
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"Te pareces a mi padre." (informal)
"Se parece a mi padre." (formal)
Take a look in the dictionary under "parecer" for more examples and uses of this verb.
Eres idéntico a mi papá
You just look/seem to my father? Sounds incomplete imo
Your back-translation does, indeed, sound incomplete. However, that's not how I would render "Solo pareces a mi padre." I take it to be the exact equivalent of the topic sentence. The Spanish is more ambiguous than the English. It could also mean "You merely resemble my father." or, as I intended it, "The only person that you resemble is my father." (I suspect that the original poster did not have this meaning in mind but that's what his sentence means in English.)
Probably, the intended meaning was "Eres clavado a mi padre." However, if we start second-guessing intended meanings (despite what someone actually posts/says) there is no end to the possibilities.
P.S. Given Deanski's correction, "Solo te pareces a mi padre." Aside form that, my original opinions stand. The English is odd and the Spanish is ambiguous.
I think the "just like" part of the sentence could be conveyed by saying:
Tu pareces mucho a mi padre"
Or a bit more slangy - Tienes pinta de mi padre.
Solo pareces a mi padre.
This is a somewhat odd (but possible) thing to say. The prior responses gave translations for "You look just like my father." (which is a more likely thing to say).
