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Old 06-October-2007, 05:41 PM
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You'd have to be really mean to say that, as using the verb ser makes it permanent, rendering the sentence something like "You will always be a liar, a coward..." I'm not that mean, so I used estar.
You don't normally use estar with "character" adjectives like "coward", "liar", etc. You could say that character is seen as an essence, rather than a state.
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