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quelque peu
i have the sentence:
Je souhaite m'attarder quelque peu sur ce point
so here, quelque peu refers to "a few seconds or minutes". are there other times when "quelque peu" is used w/o specifying something when it's obvious what is being referred to?
to me, it's the equivalent of "see u in a few" or "have a good one [day]" which were expressions that were supposed to b cute and caught on (i refused to use them) but largely died out after several years.
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Permalink Reply by Chantal Savignat on -
"quelque peu" means "un peu". Sometimes "quelque peu" means "beaucoup".
But it's not a new or a fun or a cute expression. "quelque peu" exists for centuries. It's used but it's "quelque peu" formal.
it's typically this kind of sentence we hear at high school when there is a teacher who wear a tie and glasses, who listen what he says himself and about who my children say "it's an intellectual....".
It's used but it's not a expression we heard every corner of streets.
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Permalink Reply by alan gould on
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great explanation. so i'm going to disregard it. i would of course say "je souhaite m'attarder un moment/pour un instant/un peu."
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EducatorPermalink Reply by George Hunt on -
I think "quelque petit peu" could also work nicely (an alliteration is it when you repeat the p's like that?)
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Permalink Reply by Chantal Savignat on
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Yes, it's an alliteration.
We don"t say "quelque petit peu". We say "un tout petit peu".
And we can play with that : "il est quelque peu petit" is possible.
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