English Translation
It won’t do you any harm.
Why not haré? It‘s futuro of hacer, right?
Verb endings in Spanish are used to indicate who or what is doing the verb. For example:
no te haré mal - I won’t do you any harm
te hará mal - he / she / it won’t you any harm
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English Translation
No harm will come to you.
Would “harán” also work? ¡Gracias!
If you are asking regarding the translation of you to “tú” or “vosotros” (or “usted” for that matter), no, I don’t think so. In my opinion the English sentence is using an “impresonal” (or whatever the term would be) subject. As I see it, it’s like it’s saying “It will do you no harm”, and so, the verb must agree with the subject. In spanish, if we explicit the subject, it could be “(Eso) no te hará mal”. Maybe, if you axplicited the subject, and had it be plural (“Esos medicamentos no te harán mal”), but, as it stands, it’s impresonal, and therefore, singular.
On another note, what would change depending on whether you translate “you” as “tú”, “vosotros” or “usted” is the pronoun “te”:
- No te hara mal → a tí
- No le hara mal → a usted
- No os hara mal → a vosotros
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