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- "Det är nästan omöjligt."
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Yes, I think so. A more exact Swedish translation of that would be Det är nästintill omöjligt, but we'll accept this as an answer too.
what if you were to say, "it is nearly impossible" is there another word or would you use this same phrase
I'd probably use nästan for that too, and in fact "It is nearly impossible" is an accepted translation of this phrase.
Jag gråter inte, men It's near to impossible är ganska vanligt här i gamla och inte fria Skottland.
I think it's pretty common elsewhere too, actually. Will add it.
Tack. Det är konsekvensen av internationella språk n'est pas? Det är nästan omöjligt att göra lycka för alla.
It would indeed have been much easier if the entire native English-speaking population had been residing in Brentford or something.
Either works, though it's enklare without the second e. :)
An etymological question. Omöjlig is obviously the same word as German unmöglich. Is O- used in other words as a negative prefix as UN- is in German?
"virtually" is better as e.g. så gott som or praktiskt taget - partially because it's usually translated differently from "almost", and partially because they're rarely used interchangeably in English even though they mean basically the same thing (in one sense of two).
I think there's a definite difference between "virtually impossible" and "almost / nearly impossible". The latter suggests that there's maybe a ten-to-one chance of its happening, the former a million-to-one chance.
