Settlement
Can anyone help me transalate this phrase...
I will pay you as soon as I receive my settlement payment.
12 Answers
lazarus1907 said:
Eddy said:
I know and you have pointed that out before, but in my naivety, I thought the poster might need clarification.
Just try to remember: you say "yo" when you want others to purposefully and actively discard any other potential subject candidates that they were likely to had in mind, and think of YOU as opposed to THEM, while they hear the sentence, recalling all attention to your person, and no one else. If that is your intention, then use "yo" by all means, but not even knowing who "them" exactly are, that "yo" sounds far too egocentric.
Thanks, I see you deleted your "treble" post. You had that problem sometime ago didn´t you'
Eddy said:
I know and you have pointed that out before, but in my naivety, I thought the poster might need clarification.
Just try to remember: you say "yo" when you want others to purposefully and actively discard any other potential subject candidates that they are likely to had in mind, and think of YOU as opposed to THEM, while they hear the sentence, focussing all their attention on your person, and nothing else, and no one else. If that is your intention, then use "yo" by all means, but not even knowing who "them" exactly are, that "yo" sounds far too egocentric.
lazarus1907 said:
I see. Anyway, in the absence of a third person to be included in the discussion, and who could potentially pay as well as you, that "yo" remains utterly unnecessary, and it sounds bad, believe me. If you say "yo" is because you are trying to convey this idea:
I will pay as soon as I -yes I, not the other guy- receive my settlement payment.
Any native will wonder why do you insist in making this distinction, stressing that it is "you", and not "the other guy", if no other guy has been mentioned before, and therefore there is no one that needs to be discarded as a possible candidate.
I know and you have pointed that out before, but in my naivety, I thought the poster might need clarification.
I see. Anyway, in the absence of a third person to be included in the discussion, someone who could potentially pay as well as you, that "yo" remains utterly unnecessary, and it sounds bad, believe me. If you say "yo", it is because you are trying to convey this idea:
I will pay as soon as I -yes I, not the other guy- receive my settlement payment.
Any native will wonder why do you insist in making this distinction, stressing that it is "you", and not "the other guy", if no other guy has been mentioned before, and therefore there is no one that needs to be discarded as a possible candidate.
lazarus1907 said:
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I know, I know, but reciba is also the third person person singular of the present subjunctive and I wanted to remove all doubt from the posters mind. That´s my story and I´m sticking to it.
Doubt? Am I guessing right if I think that you are using the theory that says that the subjunctive is used to express doubt? If that is the case, you've been cheated, because it is not true. In that sentence you simply MUST use subjunctive, regardless of what you wanted to say in the first place. You cannot declare potential events, for they haven't even happened yet. If you say "recibe", you are declaring that the money has been received, which is not true.
You misunderstand me. The doubt I am referring to is the doubt that the poster might have in "reciba" being the first or third person of the conjugation, which is why I inserted the "yo"
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I know, I know, but reciba is also the third person person singular of the present subjunctive and I wanted to remove all doubt from the posters mind. That´s my story and I´m sticking to it.
Doubt? Am I guessing right if I think that you are using the theory that says that the subjunctive is used to express doubt? If that is the case, you've been cheated, because it is not true. In that sentence you simply MUST use subjunctive, regardless of what you wanted to say in the first place. You cannot declare potential events, for they haven't even happened yet. If you say "recibe", you are declaring that the money has been received, which is not true.
lazarus1907 said:
Eddy said:
Here´s my shot te pagaré el momento en que yo reciba la compensación financiera. or
te pagaré tan pronto como yo reciba la compensación financiera.
Another way to say "settlement payment" is "finiquito". Eddy, you should know better about abusing those "yo".
I know, I know, but reciba is also the third person person singular of the present subjunctive and I wanted to remove all doubt from the posters mind. That´s my story and I´m sticking to it.
How about this?
Te pagaré cuando recibo mi remuneración de juicio.
Eddy said:
Here´s my shot te pagaré el momento en que yo reciba la compensación financiera. or
te pagaré tan pronto como yo reciba la compensación financiera.
Another way to say "settlement payment" is "finiquito". Eddy, you should know better about abusing those "yo". 
Esme said:
Thank you so much! I appreciate it!
Please wait for more answers. That was just my interpretation.
Thank you so much! I appreciate it!
Here´s my shot
te pagaré el momento en que yo reciba la compensación financiera.
or
te pagaré tan pronto como yo reciba la compensación financiera.
