Native Spanish speakers: can you help me on this?

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by Terra Nullius

Que??

What are you basing that on?

I'm basing it on what I was told by a professor of English philology.

[Victor Galis]

How is that not correct?

[noun] is [adjective].

[Thorgal]

Originally posted by Brachy-Pride
It is impossibly to translate that perfect into spanish, implying both that jesus resurrected (in the past) and is still alive resurrected ( and in heaven) which is risen implies.

To translate that in spanish you would need a rather long sentence, because Ha resucitado only means (he resurrected)

You are South American. Arent you?

[civman2000]

Originally posted by Victor Galis
How is that not correct?

[noun] is [adjective].

Because "risen" is not an adjective; it's a verb form (past participle). It is true that it is very common for past participles of verbs to also be adjectives, but such cases are the exception, not the rule, especially for intransitive verbs (and "rise" is intransitive). I'm not arguing about any supposed rules of "proper" grammar, I'm talking about the way English is actually spoken. Any native English speaker* will agree that something sounds wrong with "The bread is risen".

*At least any speaker of a standard dialect of English.

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by GePap


Then your teachers were awful, cause as Thorgal stated, that isn't Spanish.

Are you suggesting Sloww knows less Spanish than you? What qualifications do you have to make this assertion!?

[Terra Nullius]

Originally posted by Last Conformist
I'm basing it on what I was told by a professor of English philology.

Well there's your mistake right there. Never trust an intellectual.

Any native English speaker* will agree that something sounds wrong with "The bread is risen".

Bullsh1t.

For example:
Customer: Does that bread have currants or sultanas in it?
Baker: Neither. This bread is risen.