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The sentence I need to translate is this:
Your threats are never going to frighten me.
However, I am still not sure of the most appropriate word-order in Spanish and have ended up with the below three attempts:
Nunca me van a asustar tus amenazas.
Tus amenazas me van a asustar nunca.
Tus amenazas nunca me van a asustar.
Even if all of them are correct grammatically, I would still like to know which of those constructs are most likely to be heard in a real-life conversation.
Most likely to be heard:
1) Nunca me van a dar miedo tus amenazas. ("frighten" is a deeper kind of fear than "scare")
2) Nunca me van a asustar tus amenazas. (A threat doesn't surprise-scare you, it frightens you.)
3) Tus amenazas nunca me van a dar miedo.
4) Tus amenazas nunca me van a asustar.
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109992) Tus amenazas me van a asustar nunca.
De las tres opciones la más común es la tercera:
Tus amenazas nunca me van a asustar.
La primera opción también es común:
Nunca me van a asustar tus amenazas.
La que menos se utilizaría y hasta se escucha raro es:
Tus amenazas me van a asustar nunca.
