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How can we say extensa for a language.
Context: You perfect one language you have to work hard a language is very wide? |
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For extenso you can use extensive or wide for a vocabulary
Spanish has an extensive vocabulary He travelled around Spain for years and gained an extensive vocabulary |
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and in the sense of ample, a language is very big, very ............ I don´t find the word
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¿Cómo es la frase en español?
amplio (= completo) Si hablas de "un estudio, un tratado" sería: extensive Si son "conocimientos, vocabulario" diríamos "extensive, wide"... English is a language with a very wide range of nuances... My Spanish vocabulary is wider than my Catalonian one...
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We use 'extensive', not wide, when referring to vocabulary. 'Large' is also used.
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Is "wide" not used much for this sense?
Or is it simply "less" used? I find a wide range of examples of usage of "wide vocabulary" in the net... Like this one... In short, a wide vocabulary is fundamental to master the language. http://www.theenglishvocabulary.com/index.php
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I would never say that.
The site you linked to also reads "Do you have problems to express your ideas in English?" Using a full infinitive after "have problems" sounds extremely strange to me. I would use the gerund, expressing, instead. Do you have problems expressing your ideas in English? In short, a large vocabulary ... In short, an extensive vocabulary ... You'll find many more hits on the internet (which we hear is not a good meter) using 'large vocabulary', 'extensive vocabulary' and 'problems expressing your ideas'. In fact, almost all hits on 'problems to express your ideas' come from the same author. Perhaps this is regional usage, but the site you linked to is precisely the region where I lived for 12 years and I know I never heard anyone use these odd locutions. |
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Wow!
Thank you, Rusty. Is it, perhaps, a British usage?
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We can wait for our English cousins to awaken.
Any other American English speakers can chime in, too. Some of us are still awake. |
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Ok, thanks, Rusty.
What's your take on this? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...3151154AAGNLRp (One of the answerers clearly goes for "extensive"... while the others don't even mention the point...)
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