<p>The Taiwanese youth love to pair 超 up with adjectives to give a more colloquial, dramatic flavor </p>

<pre><code>超好 = awesome
超级 = super 
超累 = dead tired 
超无聊 = completely boring, (but also can mean "so lame")
etc...
</code></pre>

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2012-11-14T20:26:01.960Z
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<p>The prefixes <em>hyper-</em>, <em>super-</em>, and <em>ultra-</em> seems all has meaning 'transcend' or 'upper class' and can all be translated to '超'. But they have a bit difference, e.g. hypergiant is larger than supergiant; hypersonic is faster than supersonic; superhigh frequency is higher than ultrahigh frequency. </p>

<p>So <strong>my question</strong> is what is the precise translation of them?</p>

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How to translate 'hyper-','super-' and 'ultra-' exactly?
# How to translate 'hyper-','super-' and 'ultra-' exactly?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2012-11-13)

The prefixes *hyper-*, *super-*, and *ultra-* seems all has meaning 'transcend' or 'upper class' and can all be translated to '超'. But they have a bit difference, e.g. hypergiant is larger than supergiant; hypersonic is faster than supersonic; superhigh frequency is higher than ultrahigh frequency.

So **my question** is what is the precise translation of them?

**Tags:** meaning, translation


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2012-11-14. Score: 1

The Taiwanese youth love to pair 超 up with adjectives to give a more colloquial, dramatic flavor

```
超好 = awesome
超级 = super 
超累 = dead tired 
超无聊 = completely boring, (but also can mean "so lame")
etc...

```


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