"Even if it's stupid, I'd stilldo anything for you."??

Question

How do I say "even if it's stupid, I'd still do anything for you."? Can I say it like this = "incluso si es estúpido yo todavía lo hacen todo por ti."?

Incluso.....could be ok But yo todavía lo hacen todo por ti is wrong - Polenta, Mar 28, 2017

Answer 1

Aunque (esto or eso ) sea estúpido, yo todavía haría cualquier cosa por ti.

I would rather say Aunque parezca estúpido, yo todavía haría cualquier cosa por ti. Aunque suene estúpido, yo todavía haría cualquier cosa por ti.

Thank you so much! But I'd like to know if what I wrote was correct too, so is it? - ohssweetrapture, Mar 28, 2017

Check the conjugation of hacer on this site. Hacen = they do, haría = I would do. - jtaniel, Mar 28, 2017

Answer 2

Yes, that would be correct. So the only thing you need to change is to make it say I'd do it all for you, not I would do it all for you.

You wrote, "Even if it's stupid I still do it all for you."

Answer 3

Hello ohssweetrapture,

Welcome to our Spanishdict community forum : )

You asked:

How do I say "even if it's stupid, I'd still do anything for you."? Can I say it like this = "incluso si es estúpido yo todavía lo hacen todo por ti."?

Even if it were (not if it is) stupid, I would do anything for you.

= Incluso si fuera estúpido, haría cualquier cosa por ti

As a native English speaker I can tell you that the hypothetical future (previously called the subjunctive) should be used in the English in your example above: ( I have also consulted two native English friends of mine this evening, the second of whom is a teacher and they both confirm it should be the hypothetical future)

= Aún si fuera estúpido, haría cualquier cosa por ti

These two example Spanish sentences also require the (imperfect) subjunctive mood in Spanish as they are talking about / referring to a hypothetical situation indicated by the use of the words: if and were in English and the words si (if) and haría (would do) (The conditional indicative tense) in Spanish!

I hope this helps

Corrijan mi español si es necesario, por favor

Answer 4

I find the English phrase redundant, though English is not my mother tongue.

“Even if it's stupid, I'd still do anything for you.” Isn´t it redundant? Nelson and Feliz correctly discarded the word “still”.

Polenta fell into the trap of verbatim translation. I would eliminate “todavía” from her translation.