Thread: I very like it!

I need some help. I noticed that I don't know how to express an impression. For example, I listened to a song and I want to say that I very like it. But sentense "I very like it" looks too bored. Maybe there are some conversational English expressions that can show my impression more brightly? Thanks.

How about, "This is great/cool/awesome?"

Oh, you can't say "I very like it" in English.

I very like it. - wrong
I like it very much. - right

Well, it was useful

Or if you like it more than "I like it very much."...

"I really like it!"

"I love it!"


And you could say (a bit awkwardly):

"I very much like it!"

but "I like it very much!" is better.



Don't use "very" to modify a verb, "very" only modifies adjectives and adverbs. Use "really" instead. You'll sound like a Valley Girl if you use it too much, but it'll be totally intelligible.

Like totally!

Really? OMG!

How about more strong expressions? For example, if I want to create sense like "it makes me crazy" Is there any wide-spread phrases?

Originally Posted by Tu-160

How about more strong expressions? For example, if I want to create sense like "it makes me crazy" Is there any wide-spread phrases?

It drives me wild!

I loooove it!

It's awesome!

It's sweet!

It's magnificent!

It's fabulous!


Note that with the last 4, we often drop the "it's"...

Awesome!

Sweet!

Magnificent!

Fabulous!

Cool!

Stupendous!

Unbelievable!

Originally Posted by Tu-160

I need some help. I noticed that I don't know how to express an impression. For example, I listened to a song and I want to say that I very like it. But sentense "I very like it" looks too bored. Maybe there are some conversational English expressions that can show my impression more brightly? Thanks.

Sugoi!
Suborashi!

Every English-speaking otaku should understand you .

radical
totally
most excellent
far out
knarly

I must stop now before I either become a Hippy, or somebody from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures that says nowt but "Dude."

Does anyone still talk like that, sjharcus? I thought those words went out of style twice already. Once when the 60s surfing fad died, and then again when Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles went off the air. And I think it's gnarly. Oh, and you forgot "totally tubular."

Originally Posted by mike

Does anyone still talk like that, sjharcus? I thought those words went out of style twice already. Once when the 60s surfing fad died, and then again when Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles went off the air. And I think it's gnarly. Oh, and you forgot "totally tubular."

You forgot the short-lived "Bill and Ted" resurgence, dude.

Originally Posted by mike

I very like it. - wrong
I like it very much. - right

Originally Posted by Aaa

Don't use "very" to modify a verb, "very" only modifies adjectives and adverbs

This mistake comes from Russian. In Russian word "очень" (very) can modify some verbs. I was thinking about it and it seems that mainly verbs of feeling. For example, these sentenses are correct:

очень любить, очень радоваться, очень хотеть, очень скучать, очень мешать (disturb). Maybe there are more such words.

if you want to say i very like, why don't you just replace very with really... "i really like it" makes perfect sense, and is used alot. alot more than cowabunga and radical.

Dogboy - depends on where you're from. I hear people say "far out" all the time. But, knarly/gnarly however you spell it does sound pretty stupid.

I think we need some australian input here:-

Bloody fantastic
Bloody good
You rippa
You Beuty


Of course only idiots that try and catch crocodials use that kinda speach.

There's a road near my house (in America) called "Diley", after a family that lived there.

I tell everyone that it's named after an Australian word that means "every day".

Originally Posted by Tu-160

How about more strong expressions? For example, if I want to create sense like "it makes me crazy" Is there any wide-spread phrases?

You can also say:

Good golly, miss Molly, that just makes me want to plain old stand up and shout, "Hallelujah!"

But that's not commonly spoken.

yyyyyyyyeeeeeeeehhhhhhhh.... you best not say good golly...dont sauy tubular either.

Originally Posted by Aaa

There's a road near my house (in America) called "Diley", after a family that lived there.

I tell everyone that it's named after an Australian word that means "every day".

an aussie at a US hotel registration
do you have a reservation sir
No I just cime here tody

Ohioan talking to Bostonian about the dream house he's buying.

"It's a house without a flaw."

Bostonian: "What do you walk on?"

Originally Posted by igorfa100

Originally Posted by Aaa

There's a road near my house (in America) called "Diley", after a family that lived there.

I tell everyone that it's named after an Australian word that means "every day".

an aussie at a US hotel registration
do you have a reservation sir
No I just cime here tody

Igor, I think you're trying to repeat the following joke:

An Australian on vacation to the U.S. goes to Las Vegas. In the hotel, he gets lost, and accidentally ends up in a conference room where a bunch of end-stage cancer patients are meeting, having planned one last trip to Vegas before they're too weak.

He goes in, gets a drink at the buffet, and is standing around, not realizing where he is. A kindly woman, thin and pale, walks up to him.

"Did you come here to die?"

The Australian says, "No, I kime here yesterdie!"