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It doesn't mean anything. - 
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| #3 (permalink) Fri Nov 13, 2009 22:41 pm How to say "it mean nothing"? |
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| Tanya_88 wrote: |
Sentence "it mean nothing" - it is meaning(It means) that some thing(something) have not significance.(It Is not significant)
But how can I say to somebody about meaning of word "nothing". It has meaning nothing(It has no meaning) or it signify nothing. How correctly to say it?(How can I say that correctly) |
1-It means nothing to me=I am not familiar with it.
2-Time means nothing to me =It is not important to me=I don't care
3-your concern means a lot to me= your concern is important to me, I appreciate it
4-It makes sense=It's clear to understand, It's acceptable , It's reasonable and correct
5-example:Can you make any sense of his sentences?= are you able to understand them?
5-I suppose that you are looking for:
It doesn't make sense.
This sentence/word doesn't make sense to me.
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| #5 (permalink) Sat Nov 14, 2009 16:22 pm How to say "it mean nothing"? |
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Hi tanya 88
You wrote:
"Sentence "it mean nothing" - it is meaning that some thing have not significance.
But how can I say to somebody about meaning of word "nothing". It has meaning nothing or it signify nothing. How correctly to say it?"
Can I just write down my version of your question? I will put comments in ():
Sentence "it means nothing" (third person>"s" at the end of the word) - it means that something has no significance (or not any). But how can I tell someone something about the meaning of the word "nothing"? It has the meaning of nothing or it signifies nothing. How can I say it correctly? (When it comes to the position of words in an english sentence, I have to admit, that's not something that I'm really good at, sorry! Maybe you could also say: How can I correctly say it? 
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| #6 (permalink) Sat Nov 14, 2009 17:00 pm How to say "it mean nothing"? |
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Milanya
Я хотела спросить как сказать "это значит ничего"
It does't make sense - я так думаю это правильный ответ. Или можно сказать как то по другому?
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| #7 (permalink) Sun Nov 15, 2009 1:46 am How to say "it mean nothing"? |
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| Tanya_88 wrote: |
Или можно сказать как то по другому?
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Without context your question does not have any meaning. Would you kindly provide the contex?
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| #8 (permalink) Sun Nov 15, 2009 9:07 am How to say "it mean nothing"? |
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Hi Tanya,
I think I understand your question. The matter is in different mentality of Russian and English speaking people. If translate "It means nothing" into English directly it will sound like this "Это значит НИчего". To the Russian mind it sounds awkward and the right translation is "Это НЕ значит НИчего". Very often when we translate from English into Russian we should change the order of the words in the sentence.So, the translation "Это НИчего НЕ значит" is the best one.
In the last Russian sentense we have a double negation "двойное отрицание" which is almost never used in English. Such words as "nothing", "never", "nobody" and others have the negation (отрицание) in themselves, that's why English people say "I do nothing", "I never do it", "Nobody does it" and the sentences with double negation "I don't do nothing", "I don't never do it" and so on don't exist in English language.
The sentence "Это значит ничего" will be possible in Russian if you compose it like this: "Это значит "ничего"" and the best way to translate it "It means "nothing"". You should put the words "ничего" and "nothing" into quotation marks.
Good luck,
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| #9 (permalink) Tue Nov 17, 2009 20:11 pm How to say "it mean nothing"? |
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| Thanks for help |
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