Can someone tell me what "Elle est pas belle la vie" means?
2007-01-07 08:59:49 · 13 answers · asked by iltamusiikki 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
I know that "La vie n'est pas belle" is "life is not beautiful" and "la vie est belle" is "life is beautiful." So would "Elle est pas belle la vie" mean "Isn't life beautiful?"
2007-01-07 09:42:24 · update #1
Hello,
you will never see it written like that. It needs a question tag to be complete : "Elle est pas belle, la vie?". We say that when we are relaxed, just happy to live. It's not a question asking for an answer, it's just an expression.
Just imagine a french guy, with some friends, drinking wine outside with a sunny weather. He will just look up and say to his friends "Elle est pas belle, la vie?". They will just agree silently, smiling.
PS : funny to see all these so called 'fluent' people wrong. :)
2007-01-09 03:59:58 · answer #1 · answered by Guzz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could say "La vie est belle, nest-ce pas" meaning, "Life's beautiful, isn't it?"
2007-01-07 11:54:12 · answer #2 · answered by Emunatishleima! 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it practically means the same as 'La vie n'est pas belle' (life is not beautiful, more precisely as CURIOUS has written) but 1) it is colloquial: 'pas' instead of the longer 'n'est pas' and 2) it is emotionally coloured, more expressive, by means of inversion: 'la vie' in the end repeated and it's pronoun substitute 'elle' ('she' as 'la vie' is feminine) at the beginning.
It's much similar to things like 'Moi, je ne sais pas' (or, more colloquial, 'moi, je sais pas'), [moi=me, je=I) which means 'I don't know', but you stress that this means only you, basically what you express is 'Personally, I don't know'.
2007-01-07 14:47:16 · answer #3 · answered by hekki 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Sounds interested
2016-08-08 23:24:09 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means Life is not beautiful.
2007-01-07 09:32:00 · answer #5 · answered by sweetiegirl_mx_99 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Life is not beautiful
Literally: Its not beautiful, life
2007-01-07 10:35:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It literally means, Life, she is not beautiful.
2007-01-07 10:36:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It simply means "Is not life beautiful?!"
2007-01-08 03:28:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
as you wrote, it means "isn't life beautiful?"
you can use it to show that you're happy to see that everything is doing fine (to understand as "isn't that wonderful or great?"
2007-01-08 01:39:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
literally it means "she is not beautiful the life"
2007-01-08 06:16:10 · answer #10 · answered by Girl 4 God 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋