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Old May 05, 2009, 11:10 PM
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-ísimo (un poco ayuda, por favor)
Si me pongo aburrido usando "muy" todo día, ¿puedo dicer "Es facilísimo"?

-So you drop "muy" and add "-ísimo" to convey very? ¿lo entiendo correctament? (trying to say "Am I understanding it correctly" (sorry)

Espero que por usando "-ísimo" en vez de "muy", no sonaré como un gringo

Muchos gracias por tu AYuda!! Me ayuda!
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Old May 05, 2009, 11:14 PM
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Si me pongo aburrido usando "muy" todo día, ¿puedo dicer "Es facilísimo"?

-So you drop "muy" and add "-ísimo" to convey very? ¿lo entiendo correctament? (trying to say "Am I understanding it correctly" (sorry)

Espero que por usando "-ísimo" en vez de "muy", no sonaré como un gringo

Muchos gracias por tu AYuda!! Me ayuda!
Estas correcto.

Espero que leas lo que escribiste, y puedas auto corregirte. ¿Crees que podrás?
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Old May 05, 2009, 11:49 PM
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Estas correcto.

Espero que leas lo que escribiste, y puedas auto corregirte. ¿Crees que podrás?
No entiendo la frase en roja. Traté traducirlo

I hope that you read what you wrote, and you can correct it yourself. Think you can?

Gracias por tu ayuda
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Old May 06, 2009, 07:31 AM
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Si me pongo aburrido usando "muy" todo día, ¿puedo dicer "Es facilísimo"?

Si se me hace muy aburrido usar "muy" todos los dias, ¿puedo decir, "es facilísimo"?

-So you drop "muy" and add "-ísimo" to convey very? ¿lo entiendo correctament? (trying to say "Am I understanding it correctly" (sorry)

Espero que por usando "-ísimo" en vez de "muy", no sonaré como un gringo

Espero que al usar "-ísimo" en vez de "muy", no me escucharé como un gringo


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Ok, corregido.

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No entiendo la frase en rojo. Traté traducirlo

I hope that you read what you wrote, and you can correct it yourself. Think you can?

Gracias por tu ayuda
Correcto.

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Old May 07, 2009, 02:09 AM
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Es divertidísimo y facilísimo hablar así.
Hazlo, es entretenidísimo e interesantísimo.
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Old May 07, 2009, 05:55 AM
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I have heard ..isisimo used too indicating the maximum.
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Old May 07, 2009, 08:04 AM
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I have heard ..isisimo used too indicating the maximum.
I think it is called superlative.

However, some people will use the form that poli has heard, and it is wrong.

It was even made famous to talk like that by a fine humorist, Roberto Gomez Bolaños, in the 70's. :-)
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Si me pongo aburrido usando "muy" todo día, ¿puedo dicer "Es facilísimo"?

-So you drop "muy" and add "-ísimo" to convey very? ¿lo entiendo correctament? (trying to say "Am I understanding it correctly" (sorry)

Espero que por usando "-ísimo" en vez de "muy", no sonaré como un gringo

Muchos gracias por tu AYuda!! Me ayuda!
You are right.

You can say. Estoy aburridisimo.

Other example about it.

It's so easy.

Eso es facilicimo.

You can use the Isimo as complement in some verb.
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Old May 07, 2009, 08:42 AM
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Then, there's enésimo which is a word unto itself meaning umpteenth.
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Then, there's enésimo which is a word unto itself meaning umpteenth.
Shouldn't it be Nth?
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Then, there's enésimo which is a word unto itself meaning umpteenth.
Sí, pero no es un superlativo, sino un número ordinal:

1 - primero
10 - décimo
20- vigésimo
1000 - milésimo
n - enésimo
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De acuerdo enésimo es muy parecido a la palabra enth en inglés.
Ejemplo to the nth (I'm not sure of the spelling) degree.
Umpteenth sirve tambien.
Ejemplo: Thank you for asking but for the umpteenth time I am not planning to leave my job.
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Thank you, Poli! New word for my vocabulary!
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I think that "enésimo" comes from maths, when studying limits, you study "n, cuando n tiende a infinito" (I don't know in English). I suppose it's the same in English with umpteenth (a bit difficult this word!)
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