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can anyone speak Italian ?
Hi can anyone speak Italian? I want to say something like this from a male perspective to a woman. slightly sexy.
Wow you look fantastic
Wow you look amazing
or any other clean suggestions
It is for the beginning of a short story
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Sometimes a bit risky, but if you translate it back again and make sure it makes sense then it's usually OK.
(It comes up with "Wow si guarda fantastico" )
Wow, sembrate stupefacente!
for the first, and
Wow, sembrate fantastico!
for the second.
NO NO NO! As a language student, let me just say that machine translators NEVER work properly! For example, I'm studying Spanish and since pronouns are generally dropped in that language, a translator won't be able to deduce from the context whether a verb conjugated in third person singular means 'her', 'him' or 'it'. And if a verb means two different things, the translator might translate it as the wrong meaning and you end up with nonsense. Plus direct translation fails utterly in so many languages because they either just don't have an equivalent of the English word or because what's an adjective in English might be a verb in another language etc.
If you ever want to find out what a certain phrase would be in another language, ALWAYS find a native speaker to help you. The Word Reference forums are very good for this.
what are the Word reference forums?
This is the link to the forums: http://forum.wordreference.com/
Word Reference is primarily a dictionary website dealing with several different languages (mainly European) but the forums are where users can ask people who are native speakers of the language they're learning to give them a bit of extra help. I've found them incredibly useful in the past.
Thank you all so much did not realise it was that complicated Liz I would be grateful if you could ask your son`s friend. I would like to get it written down correctly.
Sorry.
sorry to be a pain . have you had a chance to ask your sons best friend about the Italian for me yet? Just tell me to go away if I am being a nuisance will understand.
Robert de Niro apparently, according to Bananarama's reckonings.
Thanks Dora I`ll contact Robert as soon as I log off from here shall I send him your love?
Sei = tu form (you singular, familiar form), and would be OK if it's someone he knows well. If it's someone he's just met, he might use Lei (the polite singular which takes the 3rd person singular verb and is spelt with a capital letter unless things have changed in the last few years).
... tu sei bella/any adjective, mostly ending in a; but
... Lei
With Lei, it would be confusing if you left out the pronoun as the other person might think you were saying she/it is beautiful and not you are beautiful.
not mine either unfortunately
[quote=Jay Mandal]Ciao, bella! is a start (never sure if that'll earn you a smack round the face, though, if she doesn't know you!). Jay would it be correct to say Ciao, bella! Mrs. Anderson to a lady that you know?
Thanks for help Jay.
Kateyanne's "Sei bellissima" may be better. It's the superlative form of the adjective (kind, kinder, KINDEST/MOST KIND).
Look at how beautiful you are!
Guarda come sei bella!
OR
You're beautiful!
Sei Bellissima!
I only needed it for two phrases and Liz ( and friend ) helped me.
Ha ha, I spent a week in Italy just recently, Jenny, and the thing seems to be that all you have to do is to add an 'a' to the end of most words and you're home free. It's what the Italians do.
eg: "If you-a take-a the road-a down-a therrrre, you will soon-a get-a to the piazza wherrrre you-a will-a find-a all of the-a shoppingg-a." (Well I understood that perfectly well) The tour guide I had in Pompeii was just as liberal with her 'a' s.
Apologies. I know you are asking a legitimate question and would love to have helped.