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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

by 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.