Better learn to live with it
Más vale que se aprenda a vivir con eso.
Más vale que se aprenda a vivir con él.
Does that sound right to you?
Can't change it, better learn to live with it.
Gracias.
6 Answers
Not really. In any case, "Más vale que aprendas a vivir con ello", but no native would say such a thing. Some idiomatic alternatives:
Más vale que te acostumbres.
Más vale que te hagas a la idea.
Ve acostumbrándote. / Vete acostumbrándo.
Ve haciéndote a la idea.
Can you explain these? Better if you make yourself / do yourself to the idea? I don't really get it, why does that work like that?
I said "idiomatic" because this word means "usage that is grammatical and natural to native speakers of a language" (Collins Dictionary), but it also means that its literal translation is likely to make no sense in other languages. Checking the DRAE, we have:
hacerse a la idea de algo.
1. loc. verb. Aceptarlo.
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But this can be explained to a certain extent: one of the meanings of "hacer" is to make someone or something accustomed to some routine. Thus, "hacerse" means "to get used to something".
"Si no puedes cambiarlo, sopórtalo." Meaning: "If you can't change it, deal with it." "Soportar" means "to bear" or "to tolerate", which can be colloquially expressed in the english language as "to deal with". "Soportar" is in the "tú" command form and needs an accent when adding the object pronoun "lo".
To answer your second question Jezzle hacer in this case means to get used to something.
Más vale que te hagas a la idea.
Ve haciéndote a la idea.
Can you explain these? Better if you make yourself / do yourself to the idea? I don't really get it, why does that work like that?
See yourself making / doing to the idea?
I know I shouldn't translate but I just don't seem to "get' how those constructions work. Gracias.
I used all of these with success today, and also "hazte a la idea".
Edit: All of Lazarus's ideas that is, not the original ones in the opener. Gracias.
