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Mr. Tom Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

You've lost your worth in my eyes.

Hi

Is this a natural sentence?

You've lost your worth in my eyes.

Thanks,

Tom
  

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Mr. You've lost your worth in my eyes. No.

  • Mr.
  • You've lost your worth in my eyes.
  • No.
  • "Lost your worth" means that your value is zero.
  • Usually is is financial, or the person's ability to contribute to a project.
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Mr. TomIs this a natural sentence?You've lost your worth in my eyes.
No.

"Lost your worth" means that your value is zero. Usually is is financial, or the person's ability to contribute to a project.

Perhaps you mean one of these:
You are worthless to me.
Your credibility has evaporated.
I've lost all trust in you.
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Thanks, AStars.

In fact, this sentence was a literal translation of an expression from my language -- and we do use it figuratively. I wanted to ask if (the way we say) it would sound natural to native ears.

If I am not mistaken, you second example sentence "You are worthless to me." is roughly synonymous to "You have lost your worth to me."; only the latter is unna
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AlpheccaStars"Lost your worth" means that your value is zero. Usually is is financial, or the person's ability to contribute to a project.
So why couldn't the original sentence mean, for example, "In my eyes you no longer have any value to the project"? I am having difficulty seeing why the sentence should be incorrect.
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GPYI am having difficulty seeing why the sentence should be incorrect.
It's not incorrect. It just did not seem very natural to me.
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@GPY

May I ask how you find this sentence? Natural? Only bordering on the natural?

Tom
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Mr. Tom@GPYMay I ask how you find this sentence? Natural? Only bordering on the natural?Tom
It seems completely correct to me, though it's not a sentence that would occur often, especially not in everyday conversation. I suppose if the question is "does this sentence very naturally and frequently trip off the tongues of native speakers?", the answer would have
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AlpheccaStarsIt's not incorrect. It just did not seem very natural to me.
Sorry, I lost track of exactly what the question was, so may have misinterpreted your answer.

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