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It would be better/best

Arabic translation: قد يكون أفضل/الأفضل


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English term or phrase:It would be better/best
Arabic translation:قد يكون أفضل/الأفضل
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03:05 Feb 21, 2010
English to Arabic translations [PRO]
Linguistics
English term or phrase: It would be better/best
It would be better for you to do sth
It would be best for you to do sth

how do we distinguish these two expressions in Arabic?

I came up with the following, and what do you think? Do you have any better suggestions?

It would be better for you to do sth
لعل من الأفضل (لك) أن تفعل كذا
It would be best for you to do sth
لعل الأفضل (لك) أن تفعل كذا

For example:
It would be better for you to confirm that with language experts.

لعل من الأفضل (لك) أن تحقق ذلك عند أهل اللغة

It would be best for you to confirm that with language experts
لعل الأفضل (لك) أن تحقق ذلك عند أهل اللغة

thanks in advance!
hc_ha
Local time: 03:33
قد يكون أفضل/الأفضل
Explanation:
قد يكون أفضل لك أن كذا وكذا
قد يكون الأفضل لك أن كذا وكذا
Better=أفضل
Best=الأفضل
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Nadia Ayoub
Egypt
Local time: 21:33
Grading comment
an excellent answer
thanks to everyone
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2سيكون من الأفضل | لعله أو لعل من الأفضل
Ghada Samir
4 +1قد يكون أفضل/الأفضل
Nadia Ayoub


Discussion entries: 5





  

Answers


33 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
it would be better/best
سيكون من الأفضل | لعله أو لعل من الأفضل


Explanation:
I think both are ok, but سيكون من الأفضل is more accurate than لعل أو لعله as it is usually used with Perhaps & maybe.





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Note added at 36 mins (2010-02-21 03:41:42 GMT)
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لعله من الأفضل
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Note added at 38 mins (2010-02-21 03:44:05 GMT)
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سيكون من الأفضل


تيتو فيلانوفا : سيكون من الأفضل هذا العام إعارة هنريكي مثل العام الماضي الرياضة - الرياضيون - الرياضة العربية - الرياضة العالمية - الرياضة الخليجية.
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Note added at 1 hr (2010-02-21 04:45:49 GMT)
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Best & better, are both translated as الأفضل you can distinguish, when "best" is accompanied by "at all", then you'll say: الأفضل على الاطلاق and only then there will be a difference between better & best! Thank you!

Ghada Samir
Egypt
Local time: 21:33
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 12
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks a lot. ghada-trans. please read my comments on the discussion board.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  mohamed elkhateeb
22 mins
  -> صباح الخير! شكراً جزيلاً
agree  Ahmed Alami
9 hrs
  -> شكراً جزيلاً لك
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
it would be better/best
قد يكون أفضل/الأفضل


Explanation:
قد يكون أفضل لك أن كذا وكذا
قد يكون الأفضل لك أن كذا وكذا
Better=أفضل
Best=الأفضل

Nadia Ayoub
Egypt
Local time: 21:33
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic
PRO pts in category: 72
Grading comment
an excellent answer
thanks to everyone
Notes to answerer
Asker: شكرا جزيـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــلا لقد أقنعني جوابك


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Radwan Rahman
1 hr
  -> Many thanks Radwan :)
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