These sentence grammatically correct?

Question

Are these sentences grammatically correct?

Estás haciendo este para regresar a mi? - Are you doing this to get back to me? (Seek revenge)

"Quiero que fuera de aqui" -I want you out of here.

"Quiero que salirte de aquí." -I want you out of here. (Is salirte redundant in this context?)

Answer 1

Are these sentences grammatically correct?

No

Estás haciendo este para regresar a mi? - Are you doing this to get back to me? (Seek revenge)

In English get back at, not get back to. Regresar is to return.

Estás haciendo esto para vengarte de mí. Haces esto para vengarte de mí. I would only use the first if you were trying to emphasize the immediacy of the action. In Spanish the progressive is much less used than in English, and only to emphasize the ongoing nature of the action.

"Quiero que fuera de aqui" -I want you out of here.

I will assume based on the others you want tú. Fuera is past subjunctive,and matches usted, or he or she- you need present subjunctive. Irse is a non-reflexive pronominal that emphasizes the leaving, you need se in this context, or the equivalent (te for tú).

Quiero que te vayas de aquí- I want you to leave (from) here.

Quiero que se vaya de aquí- I want you (formal, usted- or he/she) to leave (from) here.

Quería que te fueras de aquó- I wanted you leave (from) here.

etc.

"Quiero que salirte de aquí." -I want you out of here. (Is salirte redundant in this context?)

Salir does not need pronominal, but does need to be conjugated. Subjunctive of course.

Quiero que salgas de aquí.

I would probably use the irse version in this context, not the salir version, as more natural, but wouldn't mind native input on that.

Answer 2

One thing you always need to bear in mind is that phrasal verbs are never literally translated. This is because those are idioms, so you need to find a idiomatic way to rephrase it.

For example, the phrasal get back to in this context means return, but in this context I imagine that this is related to some love thing, so you can put it as:

1. ¿Estás haciendo esto para volver conmigo? — where volver conmigo means get back together with.
   In Spanish, the simple form is also used ¿haces esto...?

As for the second one, I'd say Te quiero fuera de aquí, and that's completely idiomatic.

Thank you for the idiomatic "te quiero fuera de aquí". I think he was looking for revenge, not reconciliation. :) - bosquederoble, Jan 16, 2017