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语言: English
tommjames (显示个人资料) 2013年5月22日下午7:30:29
InsaneInter:I'm a beginner so bare with me please. Is this sentence correct:A better way of putting it would be "Kio diable estas tio?"
Kio la inferno estas tio/tiu?= What the hell is that/this?
Is there another way to say that? Thanks!
tommjames (显示个人资料) 2013年5月22日下午8:47:33
InsaneInter:So "diable" means "hell" too?No it means "the devil", as in "what the devil is going on". But it's close enough to be suitable as a translation.
Side note: Try not to copy English idioms word-for-word; in many cases you'll find that what you come up with (for example your "kio la infero" ) sounds strange in Esperanto.
Olsho (显示个人资料) 2013年5月22日下午8:55:42
InsaneInter:So "diable" means "hell" too?Saluton InsaneInter,
ne vere. „Hell“ estas infero (sen „n“) kaj „diablo“ estas „devil“, sed la parolturnon Zamenhof verŝajne prenis el la germana „Was zum Teufel (diablo) ist das?“, kvankam „was zur Hölle (infero)“ ankaŭ eblas, sed mi pensas, ke „Teufel (diablo)“ estas uzata plej ofte ol „Hölle (infero)“ en la germana lingvo.
[not really. „Hell“ en E-o is „infero“ (without the second „n“) and „diablo“ is „devil“, but most probably Zamenhof took this phrase from the German „Was zum Teufel (devil) ist das?“, although „was zur Hölle (hell)“ is possible as well, but I think that „Teufel (devil)“ is used more often than „Hölle (hell)“ in German.
Amike
noelekim (显示个人资料) 2013年5月23日上午4:54:11
InsaneInter:I'm a beginner so bare with me please. Is this sentence correct:If you open this page of the Vortaro angla-esperanta and search it for "hell", you'll find a treasure-trove of phrases. I swear.
Kio la inferno estas tio/tiu?= What the hell is that/this?
Is there another way to say that? Thanks!
InsaneInter (显示个人资料) 2013年5月23日下午6:58:32
noelekim:Dude, this is awesome! Dankon!InsaneInter:I'm a beginner so bare with me please. Is this sentence correct:If you open this page of the Vortaro angla-esperanta and search it for "hell", you'll find a treasure-trove of phrases. I swear.
Kio la inferno estas tio/tiu?= What the hell is that/this?
Is there another way to say that? Thanks!