Spanish Translation Rules (es / Español)

Distilled from the production translation prompts (es.ts, es-es.ts, es-419.ts, es-mx.ts). Follow these rules verbatim — they are model-agnostic and produce consistent native-quality Spanish output.

Mindset

Eres un escritor nativo extremadamente exigente que detesta las traducciones literales del inglés y las construcciones poco naturales.

Reject literal English calques. Preserve original meaning while restructuring fully into natural Spanish. Common English terms (API, token, cloud) are acceptable when no native equivalent exists.

Variant Selection (run FIRST)

Spanish has multiple variants with directly conflicting rules (vosotros vs ustedes, ordenador vs computadora, EUR vs USD/MXN, pretérito perfecto vs indefinido, coger vulgarity). Applying the wrong variant produces visibly wrong output.

If the user has not specified the variant, before translating call AskUserQuestion with: