Word of the Day:atreverse
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I´m confused about translation of the sentence in connection with word "atreverse"! The spanish sentence:"Anda! Atrévete pedirle bailar" is translated:"Go on!I dare You to ask her dance!"To me,it doesn´t make sence!Of course my english is not so good either....!I would say:" Go on,dare to ask her dance"
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updated Sep 26, 2010
posted by nevandela
Oh and a good question worthy of a vote. - ray76, Sep 26, 2010
For your English (which does not seem bad at all), I can point out that you mean "sense". Sence is not a word in English, you have simply mispelled "sense". - Janice, Sep 26, 2010
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In English one would say .
Go on ,I dare you to ask her for a dance . Or ,do you dare ask her to dance.
But the last one may imply that she would be dancing alone , whereas to ask
Her for a dance implies she would accompany you on the floor.
Does that make it clear for you ? Oh and welcome to the Fora.
updated Sep 26, 2010
posted by ray76
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I'd translate it as:
Go on! I dare you to ask her to dance.
updated Sep 26, 2010
posted by galsally
As I told,my english is not so good either....! - nevandela, Sep 26, 2010
I think it's just "Dare to ask her to dance" without any "I" implication of "I dare you" but........ - jeezzle, Sep 26, 2010
@nevandela, When you write "As I told", you should add a "you". "As I told you," - but a new vocabulary word that you may want to learn is "mention". "As I mentioned" ...With "mention", you do not need the "you". But your English is fine. - Janice, Sep 26, 2010
