English Translation
He was forced to sign the document.
Shouldn’t this be obligó?
No. The English sentence is passive, but the Spanish isn’t.
- He ← was forced (by whom?) to sign the document
- Le ← obligaron (quiénes?) a firmar el documento
The plural verb is typical when the subject is an indefinite ‘someone’.
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Other possibilities are “se le obligó” or “fue obligado”.
Google Ngrams shows the following statistics:
se le obligó 0.0000081997%
le obligaron 0.0000273102%
fue obligado 0.0000507582%
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