"I have to go now; I'm letting you go."

Translation: Je dois y aller maintenant, je te laisse.

[Mhmd30]

Is the "y" necessary?

[TimmyKilminster]

Yes, you include the y if you're not specifying the destination. It's like j'y vais, on y va.

[Brian826478]

I agree. I have to go there now. Where? If somewhere why not say where? It must be another of those quirky French idioms.

[Alex247537]

I have to go there now would be a better translation right? Or skip the "y" for this to be accurate?

[--Roody--]

You must put a location (destination) after aller. The pronoun y stands in for the destination, which is not further specified.

It doesn't have to be translated because English doesn't require a destination after "go".

[Mhmd30]

I didn't know that thank you !

[duncanski]

elsewhere in this section duo translates I'm letting you go as: Je te laisse partir. why drop the 'partir' this time? some consistency would be good!

[GraemeSarg]

This time it's the speaker that's leaving, not the listener!

Adding "partir" would be confusion, not consistency.

[Sucy-en-Brie94]

Je dois m'en aller maintenant, je te laisse. Accepted :)

[TwoBeersPlease]

Same question as Mhmd30, Brian824678 and Alex247537.

[JeanAugust222375]

I will know I have succeeded in learning French when these sentences come naturally

[Seenoff]

How could you correctly express the answer using "il faut" ?

[GraemeSarg]

"Il faut que j'y aille maintenant ; je te laisse."

[TanyaBaiko1]

Why can't maintenant go after je te laisse?

[--Roody--]

A long (more than two syllables) adverb often goes to the end of the clause so it doesn't separate the two verbs as much.

[Vic3141]

Thanks

[GraemeSarg]

"Maintenant" is already at the end of its clause.

[GraemeSarg]

Because that's not what the sentence says. "Maintenant" is in the first clause, not the second. He's going now, not letting him go now (according to him).

[Bekir978479]

...je te laisse aller ?

[Dmitri47485]

I don't understand "I have to go now; I'm letting you go." Is it one person speaking or two? If two, then it's something like "I have to go now / OK, go in peace." BUT if only one person is speaking, I would translate "Je dois y aller maintenant, je te laisse" as "I have to go now; [so] I'm leaving you (for a while)". Otherwise we have very strange meaning like "I have to go now; and you are not obliged to stay here and may go as well."

[GraemeSarg]

Or it's a phone call and he's telling the listener that he's going to end the call.