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23 May
- Spanish (Colombia)
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English (US)
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French (France)
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Which one is correct ? singlehood or singleness, and if both of them are correct, What the differences there are between each other ?
Which one is correct ? singlehood or singleness, and if both of them are correct, What the differences there are between each other ?
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- English (US)
I think neither of them are correct! Where did you hear them?
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- English (US)
Singleness is probably a word, but it sounds really unnatural
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- Spanish (Colombia)
@tabeh0udai well, I was talking (practicing my english) and I was trying to traslate this word and it occurs to me to traslate it like "singlehood or singleness" and that's why I had the question.
- English (US)
@juanpadillameza that’s great!! To be honest, we don’t really have a word for that in English :)
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- Spanish (Colombia)
@tabeh0udai And don't you a word that can serve as a noun of the word "single" ?, Coz I need it for writting a text
- English (US)
@juanpadillameza could you share the paragraph or a couple sentences? Maybe I can think of something
@juanpadillameza could you share the paragraph or a couple sentences? Maybe I can think of something
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- Spanish (Colombia)
@tabeh0udai But the word that I'm trying to figure out is in spanish: La solteria is something wonderful as you can do watherver you want. (this is a small statment)
- English (US)
We would just say “being single is _______”
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