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English Audio Request

Laurasouza
English / Sentence: We don't only want to negotiate but also to take decisions
by Laurasouza on April 27, 2020
11 Words / 1 Recordings / 4 Comments
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Note to recorder:

American accent, please.

We don't only want to negotiate but also to take decisions.

Recordings

  • Sentence: We don't only want to negotiate but also to take decisions ( recorded by kevnnn ), American English - New York City

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Comments

thisisbgm
thisisbgm
April 29, 2020

This sentence doesn't quite make sense in English.

Maybe one of these?
"We don't want to only negotiate, we also want to make decisions"
"We don't want to negotiate, we want to decide."

Laurasouza
Laurasouza
April 29, 2020

I felt something was wrong when I first saw it because if you translate into Portuguese sounds weird as well.
Thank you for the tip, sentences from dictionaries can be grammatically correct, but sometimes no one would say something like that in real life.

Laurasouza
Laurasouza
April 29, 2020

I've found this sentence here > https://www.thefreedictionary.com/but

thisisbgm
thisisbgm
April 29, 2020

Ah, I see. "but also" is being used correctly to communicate "we want to do the first thing [negotiate] and also the second thing [take decisions]," it's just that I can't think of a time where you would ever say "take decisions" in English