How to say you better!

[Hanzo]

something along the lines of "you'd better ______" I've been searching but can't find it - thanks all. example would be "you better do what you told me"

 

[El sabelot?]

something along the lines of "you'd better ______" I've been searching but can't find it - thanks all. example would be "you better do what you told me"

This may not play well in Peoria (or Ahibar), but it has an "or else" ring to it:

Mas te vale que hagas lo que dijiste...

 

[Chirimoya]

How about "Debes hacer..." Similar and no risk of ambiguity.

 

[Hillbilly]

I like "m?s te vale...." but what do I know? To me it has a ring of serious consequences..

HB

 

[Chip]

weak suggestion: You really ought to... a lo mejor...
so so suggestion, more personal: You'd better... mas te vale...
so so suggestion, less personal: One ought... Hay que...
strong suggestion: You have to... Tu tienes que hacerlo obligado
super strong suggestion: Do it already, @#@#$#! Hazlo ya, co????ooooo!

 

[M.A.R.]

something along the lines of "you'd better ______" I've been searching but can't find it - thanks all. example would be "you better do what you told me"

yeap "mas te vale que....." threatening

 

[Chip]

weak suggestion: You really ought to... a lo mejor...
so so suggestion, more personal: You'd better... mas te vale...
so so suggestion, less personal: One ought... Hay que...
strong suggestion: You have to... Tu tienes que hacerlo obligado
super strong suggestion: Do it already, @#@#$#! Hazlo ya, co????ooooo!

Correction(after reading the experts opinions)

strong suggestion, more personal: You'd better... mas te vale...

I rarely have heard this expression here in the DR, but on tv a lot, especially telenovelas.

 

[M.A.R.]

Correction(after reading the experts opinions)

strong suggestion, more personal: You'd better... mas te vale...

I rarely have heard this expression here in the DR, but on tv a lot, especially telenovelas.

this expression is used in the DR more than you think.


ma te vale que ..........llegue temprano.....your wife would say this to you if you go out with the buddies.

 

[Chip]

this expression is used in the DR more than you think.


ma te vale que ..........llegue temprano.....your wife would say this to you if you go out with the buddies.

In our almost 8 years of marriage, I think I have heard her use it once or twice, but never with me. As she is an addict to novelas, I attributed to the saying rubbing off on her.

I rarely hear this phrase in the conversations I am part of or among the family or my Dominican friends here in Santiago - then again maybe it has to do with education, but my gut feeling after all of these years is this term really isn't "criollo", to use the expression.

 

[Chip]

to coninue...Maybe some other Santiagueros can vouch to it's frequency of use here in Cibao.

 

[PICHARDO]

Mira!, No te hagas el pendej*, y has lo que te digo, Ma' te vale, Lo mejor que haces, Ahorrete el problema y, Ponte' serio y, Deja la vaina y...

So many ways to mean the same thing, it all depends on the intended target and issue...

 

[Chip]

Mira!, No te hagas el pendej*, y has lo que te digo, Ma' te vale, Lo mejor que haces, Ahorrete el problema y, Ponte' serio y, Deja la vaina y...

So many ways to mean the same thing, it all depends on the intended target and issue...

Assuming you are a Santiaguero, do you see mas te valle.. as a real "criollo" term, or something borrowed becasue it has become fashionable among the elite and highly educated here?

 

[El sabelot?]

Just in case:

Mira, mas te vale que sigas asistiendo a la universidad o no mas Western Union.

Ponte en ?rbita. Ub?cate.

 

[samanasuenos]

R.o.f.l.m.a.o.

Just in case:

Mira, mas te vale que sigas asistiendo a la universidad o no mas Western Union.

Ponte en ?rbita. Ub?cate.

LOL.
ROFLMAO.
JA! Thanks for the laughter!:cheeky:

 

[Chip]

Just in case:

Mira, mas te vale que sigas asistiendo a la universidad o no mas Western Union.

Ponte en ?rbita. Ub?cate.

I understand everything else but the part in bold. I'm sure it means something funny, so please help a poor gringo cibae?o wannabe learn more and 'plain it to me clear and simple.

 

[samanasuenos]

"keep going to the university and not to western union."

:chinese:

I understand everything else but the part in bold. I'm sure it means something funny, so please help a poor gringo cibae?o wannabe learn more and 'plain it to me clear and simple.

It means, I am pretty sure, "keep going to the university and not to western union."

jaja,
sammy

 

[Chip]

:chinese:

It means, I am pretty sure, "keep going to the university and not to western union."

jaja,
sammy

No offense compadre, but I got that part. I thought it might mean something more significant, like if you ask someone "Cuando salistes del ventiocho". BTW, if you aren't Dominican and don't know what this means, please be careful with whom you use it.

 

[samanasuenos]

tranquilo!

No offense compadre, but I got that part. I thought it might mean something more significant, like if you ask someone "Cuando salistes del ventiocho". BTW, if you aren't Dominican and don't know what this means, please be careful with whom you use it.

Thanks Chip. I gotcha. Cuidado, sammy:squareeye

 

[El sabelot?]

El Chip-Oh, you know exactly what I meant:

"Mas te vale..." You better stay in school or I'll stop sending money.

The OP asked how to say 'you better' and I used it in a sentence.

 

[Chip]

El Chip-Oh, you know exactly what I meant:

"Mas te vale..." You better stay in school or I'll stop sending money.

The OP asked how to say 'you better' and I used it in a sentence.

Sorry compadre, I didn't sorry to let you down, but I really am a gringo at heart and didn't understand. Of course, if I thought I knew it all in the first place I don't think I would have gotten this far.

Here is a saying I know a person of your intellect can appreciate(and no it isn't from the Bible compadre)

When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be taken from you.