beautiful
→
very
3 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
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Comment
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | English | |
| Lexeme | pretty | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | Maria looks much prettier with her hair cut short. |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | very | Dinner at Luigi’s sounds pretty good to me. |
| Reference | LDOCE | |
| Comment | The two meanings of the English word are actually less "intense" than the semantic labels, since pretty 1 can also mean 'fairly' and pretty 2 means more 'visually pleasant' than 'beautiful'. | |
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Hungarian | |
| Lexeme | szépen | |
| Meaning 1 | beautiful | Szépen énekel, mosolyog Sings, smiles beautifully |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | very | Szépen keres. Köszönöm szépen! Earns a lot. Thank you very much! |
| Reference | MEK 1978 | |
| Comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | Polysemy | |
| Language | Serbian | |
| Lexeme | лепо (lepo) | |
| Meaning 1 | beautifully | лепо изгледати to look beautiful |
| Direction | → | |
| Meaning 2 | very | Nema pitanja, hvala lepo što ste došli. No questions, thank you very much for coming. |
| Reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 636 CLARIN.SI | |
| Comment | ||