Eu posso dizer "She is well-built"?

"She looks like well-built" doesn't make sense, only if you ditch the "like". She/He is well-built is okay though and it often refers to a person who has a good looking physique.

It's not that it doesn't make sense in the sense that someone would never say it in a specific situation when the context calls for it, it's just that it's not correctly structured as far as grammar. Just like you would say "you look tired" and not "you look like tired".

PPAULO escreveu: 27 Abr 2020, 20:46 Well, welcome to the Reddit world and smell the perfume. There are guys out there that use 'man' to communicate with each other and one another. And post things like "Rhea works out with herselves", not that I am justifying anything, just explaining. I wouldn´t use such grammar, unless by mistake (it happens...), but I deal with all kinds of grammar, slangs, all that jazz, so I try to answer the learner beyond my own grammar judgment and tastes.
Speaking of tastes, the other day I naively let some musical judgment/taste go in the way and had to explain myself further. As if I was taking sides or something.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RheaRipley/com ... wa/bicep/ Man, she looks like well built Justin bieber and that’s fire my guy. [bieber - small caps, and btw, it seems like the 'herself' was out of sarcasm or irony.]

With music, poetry, and the lingo of the streets we have to be ready to those grammar slips (sometimes they are even intentional ones).

Honestly I'm having a bit of a hard time figuring out what your point was with this one, sometimes your line of thought is way too ambiguous and I have trouble connecting it with the subject at hand, (i.e " There are guys out there that use 'man' to communicate with each other and one another.",) not that it's a bad thing or anything, maybe I'm not smart enough, who knows. Also, what NeyF said.

She looks like well built Justin bieber. (Ela parece com o Justin bieber fortão/Justin bieber em sua versão cheia de músculo) é diferente de She looks like well built.

Yes, it could be "she looks like well-built" - athletic, strong, pumped up (with a pumped-up body - albeit sometimes it can be slang for "on steroids" - bombado/bombada).
To me "well-built" sounds a bit 60-70-80-ish, I don´t know, but "strong/toned" would come first to my mind. Some guys would say "hot". Ha ha, just kidding around here.

I concur, normally is that so, and the reasoning is good, on grammar grounds.

To my thinking, though, in some colloquial way two athletes seeing a picture could say that. Because one would be making an assessment and a prospective question rolled into one.
Bbut the other could have his/her own opinion, the picture could not represent reality, etc. So, stating that would add a degree of incertainty (or precision).
But then, it´s me here. Others may think differently, of course, and I could reconsider my interpretation afterwards.

Well, welcome to the Reddit world and smell the perfume. There are guys out there that use 'man' to communicate with each other and one another. And post things like "Rhea works out with herselves", not that I am justifying anything, just explaining. I wouldn´t use such grammar, unless by mistake (it happens...), but I deal with all kinds of grammar, slangs, all that jazz, so I try to answer the learner beyond my own grammar judgment and tastes.
Speaking of tastes, the other day I naively let some musical judgment/taste go in the way and had to explain myself further. As if I was taking sides or something.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RheaRipley/com ... wa/bicep/ Man, she looks like well built Justin bieber and that’s fire my guy. [bieber - small caps, and btw, it seems like the 'herself' was out of sarcasm or irony.]

With music, poetry, and the lingo of the streets we have to be ready to those grammar slips (sometimes they are even intentional ones).

It´s clarified, NeyF got it right. Thank you Ney and Leonard, for your helpful comments and eventually pointing out in the right direction.