"Ĉu tio estas vera?"
Translation:Is that true?
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Tio estas Vera.
Any "Firefly" reference gets a lingot! (Can't remember the name of Jane's favorite gun there)
(Can't remember the name of Jane's favorite gun there)
As said in the note you're replying to - the name of the gun is "Vera" -- pronounced something like /vira/ (which in turn - means "manly" - like the Hero of Canton.)
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Of course it's available that way, but that information is useless since noone uses mobile website version :)
i always want to translate "vero" to be "green".. i must be mixing it up with "verde"
If it helps, you might try to associate vero with verdad (Spanish), vérité (French), verily and veritable (Shakespearean English) and even verify (to check for truth).
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In English we have the word "verisimilitude", meaning the appearance or semblance of truth.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/verisimilitude
1595-1605; < Latin vērīsimilitūdō, equivalent to vērī (genitive singular of vērum truth) + similitūdō similitude
In portuguese (I think this applies also to spanish), you have the word vero for true. An unusual word is deveras (really, for sure, it's true), and comes from "de veras" - "de verdade".
Could "Is this true?" also be accepted? I'm not a native english speaker, so I can't really say.
Not quite. To say "Is this true?", you would need to add "ĉi" either before or after "tio" to change the meaning from "that" to "this".
It seems to translate the general point of it, but I would see "for real" as slang, so it would seem like unnecessary paraphrasing during translation to me.
Not that I'm not guilty of that to some extent sometimes, but changing "true" to "for real" could make the sentence a bit smartassy when it originally wasn't.
I agree. However, 'Is this real?' (without 'for') does work and is accepted.
Vera Only way for me to memorize this word is to pretty much match it with "Verification"
How would you say: "That cannot be true."
My guesses are "Tio ne povas esti vera" or "tio ne povas veri.
or what about "tio ne povas veras"
Because the English sentence uses adjective "true". If the sentence was: "Is that truth?" Then you would have to use the noun "vero".
Mi opinias, ke iuj preferus "estas la vero" ol "estas vera". Denaskulo, kiu kontrolis mian Eon, ŝanĝis tion ofte por mi. Nu, mi ne komprenis tion, sed eble interesas.
Jes, jes, estas vere.
Jes, jes, estas ver'.
Se ne kredas vi.
do venu konvinkiĝi pri l'afer'.
Oh, YOU aren't the denaskulo... in that case, let me add -- I don't think he/she should be correcting you like that. I'd be happy to discuss the reasoning here with this person, but being a denaskulo doesn't make one an expert in Esperanto. Far from it. (I know first hand from many denaskuloj.)