"Je krásná, ale chudá."

Translation: She is beautiful but poor.

[learninggerman]

why is "she is pretty but poor" wrong?

[VladaFu]

Krásná (beautiful) is stronger than hezká or pěkná (pretty).

[AgnusOinas]

"pretty" is less beautiful than "beautiful". It would be "Je hezká" or "Je pěkná".

[mapviaja]

Terrible sentence
It says it's something bad to be poor

[AgnusOinas]

How about "Je krásná, ale mladá"? Is that a terrible sentence, too?

[VladaFu]

It just describes a common fairytale trope.