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Old May 28, 2012, 02:30 PM
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I think I got it.... is reserved the word you are looking for?
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I think I got it.... is reserved the word you are looking for?
Possibly chauvinistic or reserved, depending on context, or which particular trait. The French are both.
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Old May 29, 2012, 08:57 AM
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Muy suyos has negative connotations, I think peculiar could fit.
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Muy suyos has negative connotations, I think peculiar could fit.
Muy suyos significa peculiar en español?

Porque la descripción que diste de la frase me pareció más a reservado. Nosotros no decimos así, por lo mismo que te pregunto.
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Sí, en el caso de esa frase se ve que es una persona reservada. Pero "muy suyo" no tiene que referirse necesariamente a "reservado".

Es muy suyo, nunca escucha a los demás y hace las cosas a su manera.
Es muy suyo, le gusta hacer comentarios provocadores aunque sepa que no lleva razón.
Es muy suyo, se enfada con cualquier broma.
Es muy suyo, siempre cuida hasta el más mínimo detalle.

Creo que "peculiar" puede ser una buena traducción.
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Sí, en el caso de esa frase se ve que es una persona reservada. Pero "muy suyo" no tiene que referirse necesariamente a "reservado".

Es muy suyo, nunca escucha a los demás y hace las cosas a su manera.
Es muy suyo, le gusta hacer comentarios provocadores aunque sepa que no lleva razón.
Es muy suyo, se enfada con cualquier broma.
Es muy suyo, siempre cuida hasta el más mínimo detalle.

Creo que "peculiar" puede ser una buena traducción.
OK, gracias por la explicación.


Peculiar, raro para no decir peculiar, cabezón, porfiado, modosito.
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Overall, I agree with everyone, but depending on the context I'd go with the second option noted by Perikles, as in "typical".

Eso es muy suyo de los franceses.
That is very typical of French people.

For the specific "Los franceses son muy suyos", I'd tend to go with something like, "French people are full of themselves, conceited and peculiar", but I would refrain myself of actually saying so, lest that I get lynched by Asterix and Obelix.

Or perhaps, in a more diplomatic approach, "French people have their own peculiar idiosyncratic traits"
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Overall, I agree with everyone, but depending on the context I'd go with the second option noted by Perikles, as in "typical".

Eso es muy suyo de los franceses.
That is very typical of French people.

For the specific "Los franceses son muy suyos", I'd tend to go with something like, "French people are full of themselves, conceited and peculiar", but I would refrain myself of actually saying so, lest that I get lynched by Asterix and Obelix.

Or perhaps, in a more diplomatic approach, "French people have their own peculiar idiosyncratic traits"
Eso si lo entiendo como tú, pero decir:

"Eso es muy suyo de los franceses" es muy diferente a "Los franceses son muy suyos" que era la pregunta original y que yo no entendía.
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Bueno, muy diferente, no sé, pero sí es diferente.
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