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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Mybe something was lost in translation of what I read. Are you saying that the french work for this can also be positive or good? If that is the case, then no, I don't think I've ever seen the word used in that way.
I seen it such as:
That person is troubled over the selection of which reader to select. (worried)
She has a troubled past. (has had problems, bad experiences, etc)
That girl is troubled. (not right in the head)
BOb
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yes ! exactly.
the meanings you have given in english are the ones i know as well, and they are not at all what i mean when i say "je suis troublée."
as for "perturbé" in french, for me it means rather crazy... so maybe another set of "faux frères" (false brothers : we use this to mean words in different languages which look alike so you expect them to have the same meaning, but they don't. like "troubled" and "troublé".) (hey, a bonus untranslateable word for you...
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ouf ! that was exhausting.