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GlennR Apr 2016 12:04pm, 14 Apr 2016 18,632 posts	GlennR In Spanish 'summery' is veraniego. Summer as in 'summer day' is estival. And from my Spanish dictionary I learn that the word aestival exists in English. I suggest we start using it asap.
GregP Apr 2016 12:11pm, 14 Apr 2016 81,344 posts	GregP Vereniaga in relation to a bicycle, but yes. So is it "Bicicleta veraniega', which I opted for, or 'Bicicleta verano' which feels 'righter'? Or are we actually saying it is 'bicicleta estival', in which case I'm going to throw my toys out of the pram and give up.
GregP Apr 2016 12:12pm, 14 Apr 2016 81,345 posts	GregP And in English are we in Summer Summer Festival Festival territory?
GlennR Apr 2016 12:25pm, 14 Apr 2016 18,633 posts	GlennR For SR, from said higher authority: I’m afraid in Russian you can only say ‘letnii den’, which is closer to ‘summery day’, but because the structure ‘summer day’ in Russian is rather clumsy -‘den’ leta’-, it is also translated into English as ‘summer day’ - letnii den’ So essentially Russian has the same problem as we do.
Ceratonia Apr 2016 12:54pm, 14 Apr 2016 3,513 posts	Ceratonia The Americans have 'estival' rather than 'aestival'. I suppose Hibernal for "of winter" is similarly derived to aestival. Classic crossword clue answer.
Silent Runner Apr 2016 10:29pm, 14 Apr 2016 156 posts	Silent Runner Jumping is not allowed here.
GlennR Apr 2016 11:00pm, 14 Apr 2016 18,649 posts	GlennR Quite right too. How do they suggest constructing that, given the absence of the gerund in Russian?
Silent Runner Apr 2016 11:59pm, 14 Apr 2016 157 posts	Silent Runner They use 'нельзя' ('prohibited', 'forbidden') with the infinitive, Glenn: "Здесь прыгать нельзя" - "Here to jump [is] forbidden". The order of the last two words seems to be fairly flexible judging by other examples.
GlennR Apr 2016 8:02am, 15 Apr 2016 18,650 posts	GlennR Yes, they would be interchangeable. Madame reckons that in practice it would simply be не прыгайте
GlennR Apr 2016 8:04am, 15 Apr 2016 18,651 posts	GlennR (for the rest of you, that's a straightforward imperative 'do not jump)