Non seulement ... mais encore

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Permalink Reply by Frank on December 1, 2009 at 12:23am

There's only one mistake (underlined):

Vous êtes non seulement beau mais a aussi un beau nom.

Go fix it :)

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Permalink Reply by Frank on December 1, 2009 at 12:26am

"non seulement... mais encore" is not very common and can only apply to a limit set of situations. You can safely forget it.

"non seulement... mais aussi" is way more common and more versatile.

An alternative which is more common in an informal context is "non seulement... mais en plus".

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Permalink Reply by Crack1 on December 1, 2009 at 11:28am

Thanks Frank


Vous êtes non seulement beau mais aussi un beau nom.

À mon humble avis Lena est un beau nom.
So the above is fine.
Please tell me.
I just looked at my old dictionary. It seems 'a' is not necessary.

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Permalink Reply by Frank on December 1, 2009 at 11:55am

It is necessary.

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Permalink Reply by Crack1 on December 1, 2009 at 12:12pm

Vous êtes non seulement beau mais à aussi un beau nom.
Is it correct now?
C'est un ami à Frank.
He is a friend of Frank.

C'est à 5 kilomètres/minutes .
It's 5 kilometers/minutes away.

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Permalink Reply by Frank on December 1, 2009 at 2:38pm

Noppe, you need a verb:

Vous êtes non seulement beau mais avez aussi un beau nom

or

Non seulement vous êtes beau mais en plus (vous) avez un joli nom

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Permalink Reply by Pamela Kingfisher on December 1, 2009 at 3:11pm

So A woman can be beau not just belle?? Does this mean beautiful...
beau I thought was handsome, masculine. Belle I thought meant beautiful, feminine. I do know that you say, Une belle femme mais, un bel homme.
So they mean different things....? Hi Frank!!
Pam

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Permalink Reply by Frank on December 1, 2009 at 3:15pm

Hi Pam,

Oh no, a woman can only be "belle" unless it's really ambiguous (who said Lady Gaga out there?).

But I assumed that Crack's first and second sentences were unrelated.

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Permalink Reply by Crack1 on December 1, 2009 at 7:01pm

Thanks Frank
They are related.
This is dating.
Please correct it again if you think that I have made a mistake.

Lena is a beautiful girl.
Lena est une belle fille.

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Permalink Reply by Frank on December 1, 2009 at 7:08pm

It should be Vous êtes non seulement belle mais avez aussi un beau nom
then.

In order to avoid the belle/beau redundancy, feel free to replace one of them by jolie/joli.