"с удовольствием"
Translation:with pleasure
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Lol, that's really unusual to see a dog who enjoys a bath! браво, 212, for the great videoclip! спасибо.
The „у-“ prefix here indicates a purpose.
The „до-“ prefix here means “completely”.
The „воль-“ morph here means “desire”, from the Proto-Indo-European root *welh-, as in the English words “will” and “well”.
The „-ствие“ suffix means “-hood | -ness”.
Compare „дово́льный“=“pleased | satisfied | content | happy”.
Not really. It's concerns only linguists.
And amazingly, most specialized websites on etymology often fail to give the obvious. Perhaps, because their authors lived before the Internet.
That's too bad because it doesn"t concern only linguists, it concerns anybody who wants to understand what they are learning. It's much easier to learn a word if you understand how it is assembled out of elementary bits. I would really appreciate to find a list of usual russian prefixes and suffixes, with an analysis of their usage. You can find that in any grammar of English or German, but not in any Russian grammar I could lay my hands on... and that's a pity...
Same root as удовлетворить -- "to satisfy" I imagine (used to be удовольствовать), and the suffixes -ствие/-ство tend to conceptualize concrete objects. Can't find anything that goes any further.
Thanks. I was hoping there would be something in the beginning like у-до-. Seeing morphemes helps me with spelling.
In some, but not all contexts. In Russian, you can use "C удовольствием" by itself, in response to someone suggesting/offering something that you will enjoy (e.g. Пошли в кино - Let's go to the movies). I don't think you can just say "gern(e)" here.
Thanks! I stand corrected. Then it seems that "c удовольствием" is quite equivalent to "gern(e)".
Of course you can use gern there, and you have also lieber (the comparative of gern, meaning rather), and am Liebsten (the superlative). Those words are very useful when you learn German, because you don't have to decline them and they are easy to use in a sentence :)
„счастли́вый“ is an adjective, meaning “happy” (‘alegre’); the adverb would be „счастли́во“=“happily” (‘con alegría’).
„с удово́льствием“ is a adverb, meaning “with pleasure” (‘con agrado|gusto’, literally ‘con placer’).
Well... "My pleasure" is really a way of saying "you are welcome". Russian "с удовольствием" does not have that meaning; it indicates you eagerness to do something. In that, it is quite equivalent to just "happily/gladly" in English.
I've run across "я доволен..." before, with one of its translations as "I am satisfied with..."
This word seems related. Is "with satisfaction" also an acceptable translation or would that be something else?
No, not really.
And "I am satisfied with" is not very accurate translation for "я доволен". "I am pleased with" is more like it.
I am satisfied = я удовлетворен (feel OK with the result)
я доволен - feel better than OK with the result
"С удовольствием" is literally "with pleasure".
Both "С удовольствием" and "With pleasure" are fixed expressions indicating your eagerness (to do something) while "With happiness" is not.
