A calm song that moves from doubt to certainty. Practice expressing probability in Spanish: tal vez, quizás, probablemente, seguramente, sin lugar a dudas, and the subjunctive after «quizás» and «parece probable que».
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¿Pasará? La verdad, no lo sé.
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Will it happen? The truth, I don't know it. (more naturally: Will it happen? Honestly, I don't know.)
Tal vez sí, o tal vez no, ya veré.
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Maybe yes, or maybe no, I will already see. (more naturally: Maybe yes, or maybe no, I'll see.)
Quizás mañana veamos la luz,
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Perhaps tomorrow we see the light, (more naturally: Perhaps tomorrow we'll see the light,)
I suppose it, what do you think of yourself? (more naturally: I suppose so, what about you?)
Deunadudaaunamentemuyclara,
From a doubt to a very clear mind,
Larespuestaesloquenosampara.
The answer is what shelters us. (more naturally: The answer is what protects us.)
Todoestabaenelairehastaayer,
Everything was in the air until yesterday, (here the idiom 'en el aire' means up in the air, uncertain, or undecided)
Sinlugaradudas, lopuedocreer.
Without place to doubts, I can believe it. (here the idiom 'sin lugar a dudas' means without a doubt)
Calculandoelriesgohastaelfinal,
Calculating the risk until the end,
Unaverdadqueesmuynatural.
A truth that is very natural.
Indudablemente.
Undoubtedly.
Seguramente.
Surely.
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What it is about
The song moves along a scale of certainty. It begins with an open question («¿Pasará? La verdad, no lo sé»), moves through supposition («Supongo que…», «Estoy bastante seguro, pero hay duda») and ends in total certainty («Absolutamente», «Definitivamente», «Indudablemente»). It is like a promise that gradually becomes firm.
Useful words and expressions
tal vez / quizás: express possibility, without certainty.
es posible: something might happen.
probablemente / parece probable que: there is a greater chance that it will happen than that it will not.
seguramente: watch out! In Spanish it mainly means very probably, not with total certainty. For complete certainty, seguro que sí, sin lugar a dudas, indudablemente, definitivamente or absolutamente are used.
supongo (que): from the verb suponer, to give an opinion with little certainty.
estar en el aire: to be undecided, without knowing what is going to happen.
ya veré / vamos a ver: to leave the decision for later.
calcular el riesgo: to think about what could go wrong.
amparar: to protect, to give shelter.
Grammar
Quizás + subjunctive: «Quizás mañana veamos la luz». With quizás and tal vez, the subjunctive is often used when there is doubt.
Parece probable que + subjunctive: «Parece probable que salga el sol».
Future for suppositions: «¿Pasará?», «todo tendrá…», «ya veré».
Supongo que + indicative: «Supongo que todo tendrá…». With suponer in the affirmative, the indicative is used.
Word order: «lo sabes bien tú» puts the subject at the end for emphasis; the normal order would be «tú lo sabes bien».
Watch out for the rhyme
«¿Qué piensas de ti?» means what is your opinion of yourself? and is chosen here to rhyme with «sí». The natural way to ask for the other person's opinion is «¿Qué piensas tú?».
«Supongo que todo tendrá control» is not a common expression; one says «todo estará bajo control».
«Sin lugar a dudas, lo puedo creer» is unnatural; one would say, for example, «ahora lo puedo creer».
At the end of the song, «Seguramente» sounds like total certainty, but in normal usage it expresses high probability.
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