"No one will serve you, so you have to serve yourself."
Translation:Personne ne te servira, alors tu dois te servir.
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This sentence means: "No one will serve you in the future, so you have to serve yourself now."
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In French if it's a conditional sentence then both have to be in future tense. Can someone please throw light on this.
But in previous exercises the tenses had to match even when it wasnt condtional: "you will not taste anything when I am in the kitchen" had to be: gouteras and serai. Even though the English isnt "will be".
Oh, I see what you and SubhashMann are referring to now. Yes, that only applies to future-tense conditional statements, where both verbs must be in future tense. This exercise means "no one will serve you in the future, so you have to serve yourself in the present", and isn't conditional, nor is it referring to both actions in the future.
Thank you sean.mullen, but I'm still confused; Why did "you will not taste anything when I am in the kitchen" have to be both future tense? It seems like it is future tense that I'm in the kitchen, but it's not saying "I will be in the kitchen", it is saying "I am in the kitchen".
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You could perhaps justify that if it was expressed as near future, but with future tense, there is no way to know that it is not conditional.
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The English sentence is using present tense for future events, so the French should be expressed in future tense.
Because there are already two negative adverbs: personne ne. Pas is only paired with ne to mean 'not'; other adverbs are paired with it to express other negations (e.g., ne rien, ne plus, ne aucun).
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Your word order is wrong. I think that "Personne ne vous servira ..." should be correct.
Personne ne vous servira, ainsi vous devez vous servir. OR Personne ne vous servira, vous devez donc vous servir. Should also have been accepted.
Duo can be very picky about about the futur proche. It's fine here IMO but likely to be rejected since the English is not "No one is going to serve you ..."
Il faut que requires the subjunctive mood: alors il faut que vous vous serviez.
You really want se servir not servir. You probably shouldn't then tack on vous-même since it's already very wordy.
You could probably also say alors il faut vous servir.
I like devoir best though, as Duo has done.
The vous-même at the end doesn't replace the reflexive pronoun. It just adds emphasis. You still need vous before servir: "... alors vous devez vous servir vous-même."
Yes, for several reasons.
"Person" is not a French word → "No-one ..." at the beginning of a sentence = Personne ne ...
"server" is not a French word → servir is the infinitive meaning "to serve" and an infinitive would not be used here. You need the simple future tense which, for the subject pronoun personne ne is servira.
As for alors vous devez vous servir vous-même → that should be ok. I believe vous-même isn't necessary but that doesn't render that part of the translation incorrect.
Why is there no actual translation of "yourself"? Could it be included, even if not needed?
Tu dois te servir. The reflexive pronoun te is the translation of "yourself."
