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Miranda Rights Warning in Spanish - Los Derechos Miranda en Español
You have the right to remain silent... Usted tiene el derecho de guardar silencio...
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Explanation of the words and phrases.
Usted - the polite form of you, used when speaking to someone other than a close friend.
tiene - have
Usted tiene - you have
el derecho - the right
de - of, but there is no translation here as English does not use “of” here.
it is used in front of the “infinitive” form of the verb, as the next word.
Infinitive means that there is no person associated with the form of the verb,
just as in English, “to remain” does not show which person is performing
the action
guardar - to remain (literally “to keep”)
This is the infinitive form of the verb.
silencio - a word that resembles its English counterpart: silence
de guardar silencio - to remain silent (literally “to keep silence”)
¿Entiende - do you understand. All this is in one word. This is normal for Spanish.
Usted - you. Since entiende means “do you understand”, this is superfluous.
It is used for clarity and emphasis.
¿Entiende Usted? - do you understand?
Note how Spanish reverses the order of the words in English.
This is because it is a question.
If you said ¿Usted Entiende? and made it sound like a question
you would be understood.
Cualquier - whatever
cosa - thing
Cualquier cosa - Anything. Literally (“whatever thing”)
que - that. as in Anything that.
Cualquier cosa que - Anything that
Usted - you. We will not explain this one again.
diga - from the verb “decir” – to say.
this is a form of the verb (subjunctive)
that indicates an uncertain future action
Cualquier cosa que Usted diga - Anything that you say
Literally (“whatever thing that you might say”)
puede - is able to, or can
ser - to be, the infinitive form of the verb “to be”
puede ser - it can be
y - and
sera - will be. The future of the verb “to be”
usada- used. Another word that resembles its English equivalent
puede ser y sera usada - can and will be used
(literally “is able to be and will be used”)
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