"Ten hotel jest dla mnie zbyt drogi."

Translation: This hotel is too expensive for me.

[Munroist]

It rejected 'dear' for expensive - I presume Americans don't say dear!

[Jellei]

If the British do, that's good enough. Added.

[RtaRudaity]

Why not "this hotel for me is too expensive"?

[Jellei]

I don't believe it works in English, it looks like a calque of the Polish word order.

[RtaRudaity]

I'm not sure, but I would use it in this order to specify that (maybe for others not but) This hotel FOR ME is too expensive.

[Calum616691]

I agree

[Baerchen_]

Well I guess it should work by emphasizing 'FOR ME'. So its too expensive for me, but someone else could afford it. Sounds ok in English?

[Jellei]

Well, to give the same emphasis in Polish you would need to put "dla mnie" at the end ;)

[aleks81087]

"the hotel is for me too expensive" is correct...

[_-David-_]

No, it's not.

[HarveyPenf1]

does the voice recording skip over mnie or is it really subtle?

[Jellei]

I hear it fine. But I've seen several comments similar to yours recently, I wonder if it isn't some strange bug...

[AlexPhysique]

what is the difference between TOO and VERY in this sentence?

[Jellei]

I don't exactly understand the question, to me they are completely different words.

"very expensive" - The hotel is very expensive, but perhaps it's worth it, I may decide to pay that price.

"too expensive" - The hotel is too expensive in my opinion, I will not pay that much.

[RonaldLett]

Hi, is "In my opinion, this hotel is too expensive." too different a translation?

[Jellei]

Yes, too different. Maybe it's not even that I think it's too expensive, maybe the prices are fine but I am still too poor.