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Sun 29 Jul, 2012 08:03 pm
For the first time I've learnt the word "tres," today. My dictionary tells me that "tres is an equivalent of 'three'." So you can count "one two three four five ..." It sounds weird to me.
Original source of the word: (JTT says) Tres smart lady.
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote: . . . My dictionary tells me that "tres is an equivalent of 'three'." . . .
I'm confused. What dictionary would that be?
@George,
George wrote:
oristarA wrote: . . . My dictionary tells me that "tres is an equivalent of 'three'." . . .
I'm confused. What dictionary would that be?
An English-Chinese dictionary. I copied the definition as is as below:
tres [tres]
adj. 三（等于three）
It;s "three" in Spanish, not in English. It's "very" in French, (pronounced like "tray" or "trey" in English). If someon wants to sound very, very affected, or very, very pseudo, they might say something like "tres smart", meaning "very smart". But it's not "three".
It might be "three" in Spanglish, but not English.
@oristarA,
You needed to check your Chinese-French dictionary for this one.
@oristarA,
I found this tres chic pic of a tray chick, I hope you like it.
@oristarA,
Apparently you may have been in the wrong language translation dictionary. You're confusing the English, Spanish and French translations.
French ............
English
très ---------------
very
trois --------------
three
Spanish ............
English
tres ---------------
three
Oristar wrote:tres [tres]
adj. 三（等于three）
Let alone it being an adjective, which it is not..
@Strauss,
...
très (French) is an "adv." (adverb),
tres (Spanish) is a "num." (numeral).
Just before any Latino band starts playing, the band leader says, "Uno, dos, tres" (One, two three). How difficult is this?
Foofie wrote:How difficult is this?
How difficult is, for you, to say or to write "three" in Chinese?
@oristarA,
"Très" in French means "very."
"Tres" in Spanish is the cardinal number "3."
@Ragman,
Yeah, I'm late to the party.
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