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One hour walk or one hour´s walk
what is the difference in meaning? Thanks in advance.
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I suspect there is no real difference between them. If I were forced to find a difference, I would say that a 'one hour walk' is a specific planned route for a walker, say in a woodland with paths for walking. 'One hour's walk' is more general, so you might say to a lazy teenager 'no, you can't take the car, it's only an hour's walk'
But this might just be me. |
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A one-hour walk (notice that it takes a hyphen) and an hour's walk are synonymous terms, in my opinion.
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nice definition, Perikles.
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I would say that a one-hour walk is a walk lasting one hour, and one hour's walk is its length. I can't offhand think of a sentence in which you can't substitute "5 kilometres" for "one hour's walk", but it doesn't make sense to say "After dinner we went for a 5 kilometres".
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another nice "fine line". the two phrases are certainly synonymous, as
Rusty pointed out. the nuances in language study! in spanish, i would say (for both) "...paseo de una hora" or "vuelta de una hora". ¿hay otras frases más precisas en Español? gracias, hermit
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I thought there was a difference. Sorry.
Could it be : One hour´s walk = occurring at a specific time one-hour walk= things that occur regularly Last edited by AngelicaDeAlquezar; November 16, 2009 at 07:31 PM. Reason: Merged back-to-back posts |
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Edit: One hour's walk: la distancia que se puede caminar en una hora One-hour walk: un paseo que dura una hora |
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I got it now, thank you P.
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Estuve paseando durante una hora. He hecho un paseo de una hora. De mi casa a la tuya hay una hora de distancia. De mi casa al trabajo tengo una hora en coche. |
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