Phrase · 🧲 Persuasion and rhetoric
Dicho de otro modo: si no votas, otros deciden por ti.
To put it another way: if you don't vote, others decide for you.
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Why every word is where it is
Dicho1verbsaiddecir · participle · masc. · sing.de1prepositioninotro1determineranothermasc. · sing.modo1nounwaymasc. · sing.:si2conjunctionifnoadverbnotvotas2verbyou votevotar · present · 2nd sing.,otrospronounothersotro · masc. · pl.deciden2verbdecidedecidir · present · 3rd pl.por3prepositionfor (in place of)ti3pronounyoutú · 2nd sing..
- Dicho → modo: dicho de otro modo: in other words
- si → votas: si + present: general condition
- por → ti: por ti: in your place
- otros → deciden: otros → deciden
Why it's built this way
The notes match the numbers above.
- 1Dicho de otro modo = to put it another way: the reformulation turns a general idea into a blunt consequence. Discourse markers C1 →
- 2si + present with a present in the main clause states a general rule. Real conditions: si + present →
- 3por ti = in your place, on your behalf. After a preposition: ti, without an accent.
Variations
- En otras palabras: si no votas, otros deciden por ti.
- O sea, que si no votas, otros decidirán por ti.
- Dicho de otra manera: quien no vota deja que otros decidan por él.