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I don't know russian, but in croatian which is somewhat similar adding pre to infront of the word makes it stronger, does not change meaning. Like too beautiful

I don't know russian, but in croatian which is somewhat similar adding pre to infront of the word makes it stronger, does not change meaning. Like too beautiful or as beautiful as it could get. Though in russian it could be different. (edit or even more beautiful than it is allowed/expected/needed)

uzoodoo 10y ago
Well, if you remove "pre" from "прекрасно", you get "red-colored", so it doesn't quite work here. (Actually, it would make the first part of the sentence a bit too literal.)
- c-smile 10y ago
  "прекрасно" consists of two parts : "пре" ("very" here) and "краса" ("beauty") in Russian so it is pretty close etymologically to English beautiful. Slightly different connotation in this particular case but still close enough.
  - uzoodoo 10y ago
    You have to jump through some mental hoops to somehow get "краса" out of "прекрасно". It's literally "пре" + "красный", where "красный" in modern Russian means "red". I'm not disputing that it originated from a word meaning "beautiful" (which happened to also mean red, as in the archaic "красная девица", which does not actually mean "red girl" as google translate might think). But saying that you could simply split up the word and get "краса" out of it is disingenuous.