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    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.

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    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

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    Well, it was useful

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    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!

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

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    Quote 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!

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    Re: I very like it!

    Quote 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.
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    radical
    totally
    most excellent
    far out
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    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."

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    Quote 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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mike
    I very like it. - wrong
    I like it very much. - right
    Quote 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.

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    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.
    Вот это да, я так люблю себя. И сегодня я люблю себя, ещё больше чем вчера, а завтра я буду любить себя to ещё больше чем сегодня. Тем что происходит,я вполне доволен!

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    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.
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    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.
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    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".


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    Try these

    Quote 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.

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    yyyyyyyyeeeeeeeehhhhhhhh.... you best not say good golly...dont sauy tubular either.
    Agnus Dei, quitol lis pecata mundi. Miserere nobis.

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    reminds me

    Quote 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

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

    "It's a house without a flaw."

    Bostonian: "What do you walk on?"

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    Re: reminds me

    Quote Originally Posted by igorfa100
    Quote 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!"

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