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David Webbasked for translation 5 years ago
How to translate? (ru-en)

Мне было очень неловко честно говоря

User translations (3)

  1. 1.

    Honestly, I felt really embarassed.

    translation added by Elena Bogomolova
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  2. 2.

    To be honest, I felt uncomfortable

    translation added by grumbler
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  3. 3.

    If I’m honest/to be honest, it was awkward for me/I felt awkward.

    Translator's comment

    Перевод Uly Marrero, США

    translation added by Tatiana Gerasimenko
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Discussion (11)

David Webbadded a comment 5 years ago

огромное спасибо ребята 😉😉😉😉

Alexander Аkimovadded a comment 5 years ago

ULY MARRERO: I felt MYSELF is Russian, not English.

Tatiana Gerasimenkoadded a comment 5 years ago

Вот, что Uly Marrero написал:
Felt MYSELF is Russian, not English

Tatiana Gerasimenkoadded a comment 5 years ago

AWKWARD and UNCOMFORTABLE are fitting translations here. EMBARRASSED is too strong and best translations стыдно in my opinion.

grumbleradded a comment 5 years ago
Felt MYSELF is Russian, not English

I guess this refers to "felt myself uncomfortable"

My example was from Edna Guttmann's book (2014?), who is of Japanese descent, born in Presidente Prudente, Brazil, and came to USA as an immigrant in 1968.

There ara many other examples in books, and other places.

However, https://www.thefreedictionary.com/felt+like does say
Be Careful!
When you use feel to say that someone experiences an emotion or a physical sensation, don't use a reflexive pronoun. Don't say, for example, 'I felt myself uncomfortable'. You say 'I felt uncomfortable'.

Tatiana Gerasimenkoadded a comment 5 years ago

Вот что ответил Улий:
Please respond to Grumbler... Yes, that is definitely immigrant English. A native speaker would only use MYSELF before a verb phrase if he felt a process happening within themself: "As I read his letter, I felt myself hating him more and more with each word." It can also be used in front of a plain verb phrase (not progressive) to express that you did something almost involuntarily: "As I lay in the darkness of my bedroom, I heard the door click and knew it was him. I felt myself reach under my pillow for my gun, pointed it straight in front of me and felt myself pull the trigger... The next sound I heard was the thump of dead weight hitting the floor." But if you're talking about being in a certain state or emotion, you can't use it: I felt awkward/out of place/satisfied/vindicated, etc. Grumbler, quite aside form this, I would like to wish you a very happy, healthy and prosperous New Year from Florida!

grumbleradded a comment 5 years ago

and thank you

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