Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5565 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian
| Message 905 of 2529 27 September 2009 at 9:39pm | IP Logged |
家庭 (jiātíng)
'family/household', Mandarin
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Johannes Diglot Groupie Germany adfc-nrw.de/ Joined 5641 days ago 76 posts - 79 votes Speaks: German*, Latin Studies: Turkish
| Message 906 of 2529 27 September 2009 at 10:09pm | IP Logged |
Turkish
gelir = income
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formiko Nonaglot Senior Member United States Joined 6209 days ago 848 posts - 855 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Esperanto, Indonesian, Yoruba, Cherokee, Russian, German, French Studies: Mandarin, Ancient Greek
| Message 907 of 2529 28 September 2009 at 4:48am | IP Logged |
matahari
"sun"
Indonesian
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Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5565 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian
| Message 908 of 2529 28 September 2009 at 4:53am | IP Logged |
Umm...we are playing the alphabet game, right?
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LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5764 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian
| Message 909 of 2529 28 September 2009 at 4:55am | IP Logged |
Yeah, I thought that, too, I was fairly confused.
Let's start from before we all got confused, at K, after your last post in Mandarin, Levi.
die Kerze - a candle, German
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Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5565 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian
| Message 910 of 2529 28 September 2009 at 5:02am | IP Logged |
Sounds good.
llorar
'to cry', Spanish
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LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5764 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian
| Message 911 of 2529 28 September 2009 at 5:44am | IP Logged |
In Spanish, is the "ll" sound considered a separate letter from "l", since it occurs so frequently?
die Macht - power, German
an die Macht kommen - to come to power (political)
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Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5565 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian
| Message 912 of 2529 28 September 2009 at 6:12am | IP Logged |
нравиться (nravit'sya)
'to please' (used with dative pronouns to mean 'to like', like Spanish 'gustar'), Russian
LanguageSponge wrote:
In Spanish, is the "ll" sound considered a separate letter from
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It used to be a separate letter, but in 1994 the Association of Spanish Language
Academies changed the rules so the letters "ch", "ll" and "rr" are now treated as
sequences of two letters.
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