O tú o María deben ir.

Sentence Discussions Spanish
#1
English Translation

Either you or Mary must go.

Does deben refer to an implicit ustedes? Could one use debéis instead?

#2

Yes. To be honest, I’m not sure who’d say it like that, mixing tú with ustedes.

#3

My guess is somewhere where they don’t use vosotros.

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#4

You can take any random person from Latin America and almost guarantee that he won’t use vosotros forms. I still find it weird to use a plural form when only one has to do something, though.

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