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pretty keen

Portuguese translation: maneiro/bacana


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English term or phrase:pretty keen
Portuguese translation:maneiro/bacana
Entered by: Erik Bry
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15:47 Nov 9, 2009
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English term or phrase: pretty keen
Contexto de uma HQ americana.

Um rapaz está ensinando o Hulk a saltar. Ele diz:

"That's it pard! Now down, now up again! Pretty keen having the strongest legs on earth, huh?"
Alexandre Reis
Brazil
Local time: 22:27
maneiro/bacana
Explanation:
HTH :)
Selected response from:

Erik Bry
Local time: 17:27
Grading comment
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +2maneiro/bacana
Erik Bry
4 +2é muito legal
Carla Lopes
5é chique ..é uma coisa muito chique..é chique demais
airmailrpl
4Não é fantástico ter...?
Madalena TH
4é ou não é excitante ter as pernas....?Leonor Machado
4incrível
Ana Carolina Falasca
4bastante motivado(a)
Paul Dixon


  

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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
é muito legal


Explanation:
sug.

Carla Lopes
Portugal
Local time: 00:27
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 28

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Maria Ivo: Legal mesmo... se fosse português de Portugal seria FIXE
1 hr
  -> Pois!! Obrigada!

agree  Bruna Schutz
9 hrs
  -> obrigada!
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22 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
é ou não é excitante ter as pernas....?


Explanation:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/keen

Leonor Machado
Local time: 00:27
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 20
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
bastante motivado(a)


Explanation:
Um sugestão. "Keen" é uma das palavras mais ecléticas do idioma, podendo ser "a fim" (He's keen on poetry), ávido (a keen footballer), intenso ("a keen contest"), motivado (como aqui), e até mesmo frio ou cortante, como nas célebres palavras de Robert Burns em seu "Ode to a Fieldmouse": "An' bleak December's winds ensuin' / Baith snell an' keen!" (baith = both, em dialeto escocês; snell = sharp)

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Note added at 1 hr (2009-11-09 17:01:02 GMT)
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Vi um typo - o certo é "uma sugestão" e não "um". O meu teclado está com problemas e às vezes o "a" não sai.

Paul Dixon
Local time: 22:27
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 12
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
é chique ..é uma coisa muito chique..é chique demais


Explanation:
pretty keen => é chique ..é uma coisa muito chique..é chique demais

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 22:27
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 68
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
incrível


Explanation:
Algo como:

Você não acha incrível ter as pernas... ?

ou

Não é incrível ter as pernas... ?

Ana Carolina Falasca
Brazil
Local time: 21:27
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 4
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
maneiro/bacana


Explanation:
HTH :)

Erik Bry
Local time: 17:27
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Adriana Maciel
3 hrs

agree  Fernando Okabe Biazibeti
4 hrs
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16 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Não é fantástico ter...?


Explanation:
Eu dira assim.

Madalena TH
Portugal
Local time: 00:27
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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Changes made by editors
Nov 11, 2009 - Changes made by Erik Bry:
Edited KOG entryAlexandre Reis's old entry - "pretty keen" => "maneiro/bacana"


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