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- "Це коштує дуже дорого."
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too much = надто (Це коштує надто дорого) meaning that price is too high for you to buy it or you can't justify bying it
- 112
Is it really what people really say in English? I believe it should be "it costs too much" or "it costs a lot"
- 130
You have a good point. I think "it costs too much" means a different thing but "it costs a lot" has the same meaning as "it is very expensive". Also it costs a lot sounds so much better than it costs very much (what was I thinking :D). Do you know if це can mean both "it is" as well as "this is"? I noticed that sometimes it is translated as "it" and sometimes "this". Does it somehow depend on the sentence?
- 112
Yes, це can mean either "it": Це кіт (It is cat), or "this" with the neuter nouns: Це місто (This city)
The literal translation would be "It costs too expensive" but you can't say that in English! That's why both options should be acceptable: "it costs too much" and "it is too expensive".
- 165
But it means it is very expensive, not too expensive. They mean different things, one where you possibly could buy it and one where you couldn't.
I believe "це дуже дорого" in Ukranian has a connotation of "that is way too expensive". Correct me if I'm wrong.
- 112
I don't think that a thing that is "дуже дорога" actually costs more than something that is "very expensive" :)
I would sometimes buy sth that is "дуже дороге", "надто дороге" I would never buy
це літературні тонкощі. в реальній українській розмовній мові один і другий варіант використовується в значенні "дуже і занадто дорого" і не залежить від того буде купляти хтось щось чи не буде. Можна купити і "надто дороге", якщо "дуже хочеться")))))
- 47
IMHO є суттєва різниця:
It costs too much -Це коштує занадто дорого, річ того не варта, або в мене немає достатньо грошей щоб купити її .
It's very expensive -Це коштує дуже дорого, але можливо річ того варта і також можливо я маю достатньо грошей щоб купити її.
