"He de escaparme a comprar un par de cosas y ya está"
Hola a todos!
"He de escaparme a comprar un par de cosas y ya está."
Estoy leyendo un libro y he visto una frase así pero no sé qué significa la estructura "he de escaparme" ni las estructuras así, como "he de hacer, he de irme".
Podría alguien explicarme, por favor ?
¡Gracias!
Hi everyone!
"He de escaparme a comprar un par de cosas y ya está."
I am reading a book and I've seen a sentence like this but I don't know what the structure "he de espacarme" or structures like this, such as "he de hacer, he de irme" means.
Could someone please explain me ?
Thank you!
Por favor corrijan mis frases, si es necesario 
4 Answers
From what I understand it is the personal form of " hay que decir" or " ha de decir"
http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/he-de-decir-tengo-que-decir.1691257/
Multiple answers, I will bring over the first two:
He de decir se usa en lenguaje escrito y tal vez en algún discurso por ahí. En lenguaje coloquial no se usa.
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He de decir = tengo que decir = debo decir.
Son tres perífrasis equivalentes para indicar una obligación o una necesidad. El uso de una u otra depende de factores geográficos y de estilo.
En sentido impersonal tenemos hay que decir.
En Andalucía la más usada es tengo que decir.
http://spanish.about.com/od/usingparticularverbs/a/haber_de.htm
Question: I think there's another form of haber, which is haber + de + verb. In one of her songs, Natalia Oreiro, a famous Uruguayan singer, says: (ojal’) 'que la suerte sea suerte y no algo que he de alcanzar." What does she mean exactly? When do I use this special form of haber + de+ verb?
Answer: Haber de followed by the infinitive usually means "to have to," "to be necessary," or "to be supposed to," kind of like tener que or haber que, but expressing a much weaker and often vague sense ofobligation.
Although the expression is used a lot in some areas, in other places you're more likely to come across it in literature (or song lyrics!).
Here are a few examples of its use:
• Ha de trabajar mañana. He needs to work tomorrow. • He de estar a dieta. I need to be on a diet. • ¿Por qué habría de salir? Why should she leave?
In the first two examples, the sense of obligation could be less than the English translations suggest; in the third example, the usage suggests a tone of indignation. Haber de also can express probability in much the same way that "have to" (or sometimes "must") in English can express probability rather than obligation:
• La solución al problema ha de ser difícil. The solution to the problem has to be difficult. • Has de ser rica. You must be rich.
As to the song lyrics, here's one possible translation: "that good fortune will be my destiny and not something I have to strive for."
"Haber de" is like tener que but expressing a much weaker and often vague sense of obligation.
"I need to escape to buy a couple of things and it's done."
Also, it's easy to forget to use "ni" since most English speakers don't use "nor" that much, so you would say, "no sé qué significa la estructura "he de escaparme" ni las estructuras "
It's like saying I should.
Another meaning is like the following.
Tomorrow I am to give a lesson on Aztec arquitecture.
Mañana he de dar una lección sobre la arquitectura azteca.
It's sort of a future tense. Do you realize that the future tense is built from the verb "haber"
Trabajar he = trabjaré
Trabajar has = trabajarás
Trabajar ha = trabajará
Trabajar hemos = trabajar hemos
Trabajar habéis = trabajaréis (part of haber got cut off here)
Trabajar han = trabajarán
The Spanish future is a "future of necessity or 'gotta' while the English future is a future of the "will" (voluntad) I "will" do thus and so. Spanish is I need or have to do thus and so.
