"Kia bela paro!"

Translation: What a lovely couple!

[PetersonSi15]

I don't understand the structure of this... Kia should be "what kind", "what type", right? For instance, "what kind of couple is that?" = "kia paro estas tiu?", so for me it would only make sense that "kia bela paro" means "what a beautiful type of couple" - the kind of couple is beautiful, not necessarily the couple itself (though the first might imply the latter). On the other hand, I wouldn't know exactly how to say "what a lovely couple" --- "kio bela paro!"? I'm super confused =(

[AusPole]

It's an emphatic kind of what, not one fulfilling a questioning purpose.

It's like the English:

"What a load of rubbish!"

"What a beautiful poem!"

"What a stupid thing to say!"

The clauses above aren't interrogatives (questions) even though they're headed by the interrogative pronoun (what ). They're declarative statements, where what places emphasises on whatever follows.

[Majklo_Blic]

Spanish uses the same structure as well: ¡Qué bonito! means "How lovely!" and ¡Qué par bonito! would be "Such a lovely couple!"

[PetersonSi15]

Thanks a lot! It makes more sense now!

[AusPole]

ne dankinde :)

[claire_resurgent]

I'm pretty sure I'd say "kiel bela" for exactly that reason.

[effyleven]

Strange. I would have expected "couple" to have better esperantan type word structure, incorporating the concept of 2 and making it into a noun. .. "duo" springs to mind for some reason.

[Siavel]

In this case, I think the word comes from the English word "pair". Incedentally, Glosbe translates "duo" to mean "couple, pair". So the two words are synonymous.

[LisaHHarris]

Also accepted "what a beautiful pair"