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Can someone explain why it is really so would not be acceptable?
Why wouldn’t they? There’s nothing strange about saying “It is really like that.”
"It is really THUS" Don't think many English speakers still use the work 'thus'. It marked 'It is really that.' wrong ???
can someone pls ecplain why the word order is switched around im so confused
'thus'??? Does anyone use that word anymore? Sounds a bit shakespearean to me.
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Thus far, meaning up to now or up to this point in time, is a slightly formal expression that is still popular, certainly with the 40 plus generation.
What does that mean? It seems as if it were incomplete. What could be possible context for such sentence?
If you're saying that that's how something really is, when you're faced with skepticism. I'm not a native german speaker, but that's how it's used in english
showing someone a photo and they don't believe it really looks like that so you say "es ist wirklich so!"
"Tell me it isn't so!" "It is really so". To me that is perfectly acceptable English. But that is not acceptable to Duo.
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"Just so" is an expression in English, meaning "precisely" or "in exact order". Examples:
"These are your finest teapots?" "Just so".
"My aunt is very fussy, she wants everything to be just so, even if she is dining alone."
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What means the same thing as what? If you mean your answer meant the same as the accepted answer, you need to take that up with Duo (i.e, report it). This is just a discussion page for students.
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wirklich - real/really
wichtig - important/significant
Also, I believe that if you did want to say "it is so important", you would have to put the words in a different order: Es ist so wichtig
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I might consider anything at all as an idiom. On the face of it, your translation doesn't seem to cover the given statement. Can you perhaps provide a reference to explain why you think your translation is correct?
Yes I can. I asked a German relative with a post graduate degree in linguistics. Now please stop trolling me.
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My goodness, nobody is trolling you. I asked a perfectly civil question because I wanted to know the answer.
No, the meaning is different. "Es ist wirklich so." is asserting that some earlier statement is indeed true: "it is really that way."
"It is what it is." is more of a fatalistic, shrugged-shoulders statement that some situation cannot be changed or remedied
I don't understand where the word "like" is stated in this sentence.
Wirklich has only been defined by duo lingo thus far as - really, actually, or very
So- so, this, or that.
The German word so translates to English as “in that way”, or “like that.”
https://dict.leo.org/german-english/so
Words translated into other languages don’t always map one-to-one. The meaning of a single word in one language might be expressed by more than one word, or a phrase, in another language.
What do you mean? It's not clear what you are asking.
In German, so means "in that way", "like that."
The German word so is roughly equivalent to English “in that way, in that manner” or “like that”. It’s not a word-for-word translation.
Could, "I'm afraid so" be an acceptable rough translation? Make remembering easier?
No... “like that” is the usual English translation for the German adverb so. https://dict.leo.org/german-english/so?side=right
I answered "It is so true" and it was rejected, even though my dictionary suggests "so cold" for "so kalt". It seems to me that if "it is truly true" and "it is really like that" are both acceptable, "it is so true" should also be.
That’s a different word. One word “so” in English is an adverb, meaning “very much, to a great degree” — it’s so cold, I am so tired, etc.
Another word “so” in English is a coordinate conjunction. It’s raining, so we need an umbrella.
Another word “so” in English means “true” or factual. “Say it ain’t so, Joe!”. or “That just isn’t so.”
None of these really translate German so accurately. German so means essentially “in that way”, or “like that”
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Ich auch! I don't know why you got -ve feedback. I imagined as you might say in conversation "That's soooo true" ("that" more commonly than "it" in this English phrase) you might use in German "Es ist wirklich so" interchangably with "Das/Es ist so wahr"
