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famózní

English translation: excellent

16:46 Sep 8, 2011
Czech to English translations [PRO]
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Czech term or phrase: famózní
překlad do aj prosím i příklad
breadfly
Local time: 22:48
English translation:excellent
Explanation:
"This is an excellent example of useless question."

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Note added at 13 mins (2011-09-08 17:00:06 GMT)
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or "superb" as another option...
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Zbyněk Táborský
Czech Republic
Local time: 22:48
Grading comment
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2phenomenal
Jana Bedanova
4 +1famous
Scott Evan Andrews
3 +1awesome
Michal Surmař
3 +1excellent
Zbyněk Táborský
4superb
Lenka Mandryszová
4fabulous
jankaisler


Discussion entries: 11





  

Answers


9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
awesome


Explanation:
"Famózní" is an informal and expressive word for "great", "excellent", "awesome" ... But we need more context, definitely!

Michal Surmař
Czech Republic
Local time: 22:48
Native speaker of: Native in CzechCzech

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Gerry Vickers: it's horribly American, but is slowly creeping into regular English usage :)
11 mins
  -> I know it’s American :-) ... Sorry ... Maybe it does not express the meaning at all. I was looking for a special word because "famózní" sounds quite ... informal and expressive to me. I was not happy with "great" :-). Anyway, we’ll see, thanks.
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
excellent


Explanation:
"This is an excellent example of useless question."

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Note added at 13 mins (2011-09-08 17:00:06 GMT)
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or "superb" as another option...

Zbyněk Táborský
Czech Republic
Local time: 22:48
Works in field
Native speaker of: Czech
PRO pts in category: 4
Notes to answerer
Asker: which yyou could plese answer by giving an example of famozní in english


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Gerry Vickers: also agree
17 mins
  -> Thanks, Gerry!
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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
famous


Explanation:
He is a famous movie star.

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Note added at 14 mins (2011-09-08 17:01:00 GMT)
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Je famozni (slavna) filmova hvezda.
This is no false friend (which see), this is a cognate.
"Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin famosus, from fama fame" (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/famous).

Scott Evan Andrews
United States
Local time: 22:48
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
Notes to answerer
Asker: can you translate this sentence back to czech Scott? thanks


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Gerry Vickers
19 mins
agree  Maria Chmelarova
50 mins
disagree  Jana Bedanova: This IS a false friend. Je famózní filmová hvězda means - he is a brilliant film star - but it does not mean "he is famous" as in "slavný"
16 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
superb


Explanation:
Yet another option...

Lenka Mandryszová
Czech Republic
Native speaker of: Native in CzechCzech
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
fabulous


Explanation:
""Absolutely Fabulous", also known as Ab Fab, is a British sitcom created by Jennifer Saunders, based on an original idea by her and Dawn French, and written by Saunders, who plays the leading character. Skvělý krátký tv seriál.


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolutely_Fabulous
jankaisler
Local time: 22:48
Native speaker of: Czech
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16 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
phenomenal


Explanation:
I absolutely disagree with "famous". When we say "famózní" in Czech we rarely mean "famous" in the sense of "slavný", rather it means that something was bloody fantastic! phenomenal! brilliant! excellent! - choose any of those

Jana Bedanova
Czech Republic
Local time: 22:48
Works in field
Native speaker of: Czech

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lenka Mandryszová: No matter what outdated dictionaries say.
3 days 2 hrs
  -> diky
agree  Blanka Pasternak
13 days
  -> diky
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