LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5769 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian
| Message 1609 of 2491 18 December 2010 at 7:44pm | IP Logged |
sauter- to jump, French.
Extra vaguely related expressions
un saut - a jump
to jump the queue - passer devant tout le monde
to jump the lights - passer au feu rouge
to be a step ahead of someone - avoir une longueur d'avance sur qqn.
Jack
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Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5570 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian
| Message 1610 of 2491 18 December 2010 at 8:00pm | IP Logged |
跳 tiào
'to jump' - Mandarin
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formiko Nonaglot Senior Member United States Joined 6214 days ago 848 posts - 855 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Esperanto, Indonesian, Yoruba, Cherokee, Russian, German, French Studies: Mandarin, Ancient Greek
| Message 1611 of 2491 19 December 2010 at 8:10am | IP Logged |
jik'ein
to jump Tlingit
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Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5570 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian
| Message 1612 of 2491 19 December 2010 at 9:51pm | IP Logged |
جهیدن (jahidan)
'to jump' - Persian
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ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6145 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian
| Message 1613 of 2491 19 December 2010 at 11:55pm | IP Logged |
ادبيات (adabiyât)
'literature' - Persian
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Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5570 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian
| Message 1614 of 2491 20 December 2010 at 3:54am | IP Logged |
kaunokirjallisuus
'literature' - Finnish
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mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5927 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
| Message 1615 of 2491 20 December 2010 at 8:48am | IP Logged |
letterkunde
literature - Afrikaans
I think this may be an older word that isn't commonly used anymore, but I have encountered it occasionally in reading. There is also the word "literatuur".
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clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5181 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi
| Message 1616 of 2491 20 December 2010 at 10:43am | IP Logged |
văn học - literature (Vietnamese);chu nom: 文學
Edited by clumsy on 20 December 2010 at 10:44am
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