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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4914 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 2 of 10 15 September 2013 at 2:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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According to french.about.com coincé(e) can mean "hung up, anal, inhibited", so the sentence would mean "You are really as anal as nana".
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| akkadboy Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5413 days ago 264 posts - 497 votes Speaks: French*, English, Yiddish Studies: Latin, Ancient Egyptian, Welsh | Message 4 of 10 15 September 2013 at 3:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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It means "As a gal, you're really uptight". I don't think I can render the pattern "être vraiment xyz comme abc" in idiomatic English but it's a very common one and worth remembering. Here "comme" isn't used for comparison, which can be confusing.
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| Michel1020 Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5022 days ago 365 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish, Dutch | Message 5 of 10 15 September 2013 at 3:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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Comme nana means as a girl or as a woman - you who are a girl - you who are a woman.
tu es vraiment coincée could means the one who is talking think either she is too hermetic to fun or she could be better with a more open mind, or it is quite difficult to get a smile or a laugh from you. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| akkadboy Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5413 days ago 264 posts - 497 votes Speaks: French*, English, Yiddish Studies: Latin, Ancient Egyptian, Welsh | Message 7 of 10 15 September 2013 at 4:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, exactly.
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| Tsopivo Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4476 days ago 258 posts - 411 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Esperanto | Message 8 of 10 15 September 2013 at 7:10pm | IP Logged | ||
No, as pointed out in a previous post, it is an idiomatic expression and there is no comparison here. It means "you're an uptight girl" or "you're the uptight kind of girl". 1 person has voted this message useful |
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