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"Ta robe est d'une grande beauté"
Translation:Your dress is beautiful
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The word 'grande' surely suggests it is more than beautiful but it is 'most beautiful'?
"Grande" suggests that it is of "great" beauty. To say that it is the "most" beautiful you could write "ta robe est la plus belle."
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Your post is most interesting.
'Most beautiful' does not have to be 'the most beautiful'.
Most can be an adverb meaning very or rather, as well as the superlative.
Your dress is most beautiful.
That is actually short for "one of the most interesting", which makes it a bit higher in rank than "very" even if it is not "the most interesting.".
most = to a very great degree (not just very) or to the greatest degree, when used as an adverb
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Most kind.
Though it does not have to be short for anything to have the definition of 'very' or 'rather' or 'highly'.
Or even 'quite' as in somewhat.
You may use them interchangeably, but that does not change the fact that very is greater than rather and most is greater than very.
The word rather is a synonym of somewhat.
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They are all synonyms. Just change your intonation if you think one is greater.
If you like webster then there are many synonyms for most in their thesaurus. Perhaps you'd like to rank them.
Where their definition is only
"to a great degree" (no very).
Yes, it does show that very and most are now accepted as synonyms, so I stand corrected on that one.
Intonation is everything with the use of "rather" even in British English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rather
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Yes it appears Webster is not consistent with definitions, and perhaps unsurprisingly doesn't bother too much with BE, not even listing rather as a synonym for most.
Wiktionary also displaying an incorrect perspective on it, not defining rather as very, wrongly saying that it's just intonation.
At least Cambridge and Collins for example both properly give it its separate definition.
Can't I just say: "Ta robe est belle"? Almost no one in France would say: "Ta robe est d'une grande beauté". This sounds too posh and aristocratic to me...
Yes, that to me seemed a more straightforward way of saying it as well.
Yeah, I think I would only want to say it like that if I wanted to seem a little funny at the same time as complimenting someone, but only if they were aware that I like to do that sometimes.
yes on google translate it is "ta robe est belle" but they probably just want us to suffer trying to remember this
Some expressions that we rarely use are more common in other languages.
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Not sure if that could be said in French, but even if it could, it'd mean "Your dress is a (great) beauty" which is different from the English sentence.
@snowfed This is the first phrase I've heard where the French didn't sound typically elegant. We have more than one of those in English, but I'm curious, (shocking, right?), anyway, I'm curious to know if there are any French sentences that don't sound elegant to French ears ?
Literally, it would be "Your dress is of great beauty." which is rather old and formal in English.
Isn't the translation more amongst the lines of your dress is of great beauty? Because that is the literal translation. Ta robe es belle is the literal translation for your dress is beautiful.
Yes, but the French version is more commonly used than the literal English translation. Typo “est” not “es”
Really because I have had french for 9 years, both parents speak fluent french and not once have I heard someone express that something is beautiful by using d'une grande beauté.
I agree that in both languages “Ta robe est belle.” or “Your dress is beautiful.” is more common. I have heard the French sentence above occasionally though and it is a bit formal, but the literal English translation is practically archaic. It still should also be accepted as correct. The French expression is completely understood by native French speakers without raised eyebrows.
Technically, it is a fancier way of wording it “de” means “of” here: “Your dress is of great beauty.”
The French word « robe » means "dress" in English. The English word "robe" usually translates to the French « peignoir ».
You would need another word to qualify it as a robe, for example "a christening robe" is « une robe de baptême ».
It is just the way the French expression is worded and it cannot be translated word for word.
“Your dress is of great beauty.” is what the French really means, but in French they use the indefinite article “une” in their expression.
Is it just me or one is more likely to hear this in French Shakespearian play?
Shakespeare wrote in English and that is where the literal translation would be found in English, which is why the English is not translated word for word from the French. This is a French expression, not to be confused with what we are used to in English.
Why the "de" or rather "d'". And why the "une" Literally it would translate, "your dress is of a great beauty."
It is a formal way of talking. “Your dress is of great beauty.” is similar though outdated way of talking in English.
Not for the sentence about “your dress”. “Ta coiffure” is “your hairstyle”. This translation was French to English, but if you had the English to French, you could try “Ta robe est belle.” It should work if the English was “Your dress is beautiful.”, however they might put “Your dress is of great beauty.” and then you will know that they are trying to get you to put “Ta robe est d’une grande beauté.”
So this topic is full of errors and stupid sentences and, even worse, just repeats the same 3 or 4 sentences in each lesson. What a waste of lingots! I mean, I could have bought a cool outfit for Duo instead
So keep going, save your lingots, and buy the bird some clothes! :-))
Once again: It sounds like your sayjng you are paying attention to what the person wears, not who they are inside(what matters) or naturally look like (does not matter much), which isn't good flirting DUOLINGOOOOEHTIRJFNFJD
If it is her prom dress, she will be happy that you noticed. There are occasions at which the dress is important and the person has already been valued.
What's wrong with french people? "Your make up is beautiful" "Your hairstyle is beautiful" "Your dress is beautiful" WHY CAN'T THEY JUST SAY "YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL"??
I put in "your dress is of great beauty" which is marked as correct but would never be said by someone whose first language is English!
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So would you really say this in French? I don't want to sound stupid when talking and get made fun of.. Some of these sentances are making me wonder if they are used, I don't feel too confident with these...
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Are you certain? I read it as, "of great beauty."
(but I'm American, not French)
They sound the same if there is not a vowel sound starting the next word. The verb “est” does a liaison with a following vowel sound, but the conjunction “et” never pronounces the t.
You would never have “and” in front of the word “of” though unless there was a previous prepositional phrase with “of” before it.
If Duolingo translates the sentence into "your dress is beautiful", what unique feature does this structure provide compared to "ta robe est belle"?
You use ta because it's modifying "une robe/la robe" which is a feminine noun. So you use ta instead of ton.
You would use ton instead of ta if the noun is masculine like "un costume/le costume (a suit/the suit) for "ton costume."
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Do we have any flirting for gay men? I guess "your dress in beautiful" can be used on certain occasions, but I'd rather learn "your harness is hot".
This lesson is good for farming xp but duolingo ain't about that, but it's still good for farming
