Nov 26, 2010 · Are you busy? Not really. (Meaning that you're not doing anything important, but you're not doing nothing, either.) Furthermore, when your friends says that she's doing "nothing, really," she …

Sep 13, 2005 · When filling in forms I have seen that english persons write NA or N/A if they for example have to fill in their mobile telephonenumber. What does it stand for? My guess is "Not Any", but I …

Sep 9, 2024 · Hello, everyone. Is the sentence "Do you think what it is?" idiomatic to you? My textbook says we have to say "What do you think it is?" to mean this idea, but "Do you think what it is?" …

Feb 2, 2025 · The adverb suddenly means "quickly and unexpectedly." When paired with the progressive (-ing) form, suddenly marks the beginning of an event. As a result, it is typically placed …

Aug 24, 2017 · The context calls for an "unmarked" (unstressed, not emphasized) filler (啊). To sum up, we may roughly treat post-vocalic 呀 as a "marked" form of 啊. The marked form is a rhetorical …

Apr 29, 2011 · Hi all, may you help me with the 2nd person singular, thou? I know it is an obsolete pronoun in most places, but I wanted some clarification, for I'm trying to read Spenser and Milton. I …

Dec 6, 2005 · Of course we don't always leave out the My mother-in-law is currently in hospital. My wife has just come back from the hospital - she was visiting her mother. (Feeble attempt at justification …

Mar 14, 2012 · send us an email once finish VS send us an email once finished? does both sounds fine to you?

Oct 14, 2005 · Moderator note: multiple threads merged to create this one I'm trying to choose between: décider de + infinitive or se décider à + infinitive It seems like this is a totally optional thing, that both …

Sep 23, 2023 · Hola foreros, Secondhand embarrassment refiere al hecho de avergonzarse por lo que debe avergonzar a alguien demás. Por ejemplo, si en una serie alguien hizo algo bastante tonto …