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Maypal
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Newbie
Russian Federation
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Speaks: Russian*, Icelandic, English, Danish, Faroese
Studies: Greenlandic, Scottish Gaelic

Message 49 of 52

13 February 2011 at 5:10pm | IP Logged

Miiyii wrote:

In Danish..

lide = like
lide = suffer

.. it's actually one of the confusing parts in Danish. Many words are written in the
same way, while having
different meanings.
Guess you have it in Norwegian too? :PP

Historically it was the same word, which meant 'to suffer, experience'. So the
expression "jeg kan godt lide det" would mean something like "I can quite tolerate
this" and "kan ikke lide det" - "I can't tolerate this". In the course of time it gave
"I like" and "I don't like" respectively.
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oz-hestekræfte
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Australia
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Speaks: English*
Studies: Danish

Message 50 of 52

27 February 2011 at 9:38am | IP Logged

Maypal wrote:

This is exactly how I learnt the word "lide": As though it is the same word.
Suffer is used like this in English too. I thought to this saying when learning the Danish word. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffer_fools_gladly

While we're talking about the word "lide" though, I do have a question. Is it ever pronounced "lide" or is it categorically alway "li'"

Edited by oz-hestekræfte on 27 February 2011 at 9:39am
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Miiyii
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Greenland
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Message 51 of 52

28 February 2011 at 7:47pm | IP Logged

oz-hestekræfte wrote:

While we're talking about the word "lide" though, I do have a question. Is it ever pronounced "lide" or is it
categorically alway "li'"

When it's "to like", it's mostly "li'".

When it's "to suffer", it's always the whole word, "lide".

:)
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Jaynie
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Denmark
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Speaks: English*
Studies: Danish, Latin

Message 52 of 52

01 March 2011 at 8:20pm | IP Logged

In Danish, I would like to say goodbye to my friends. I am moving away from them and I want to say the type of goodbye that implies "So long until the next time we get together! We will meet again!" I don't want to say goodbye as in "This is it! And we may never see each other again!"

Which would be the best choice:

Farvel
Farvel så længe
På gensyn

Or some other word/phrase?

Thanks.

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