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Conjugating the verb Google | ||
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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6151 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 1 of 24 03 July 2008 at 4:55am | IP Logged | ||
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In English, the use of this famous search engine, is now a verb in it's own right. E.g. I was googling it, he googled it.
Is this verb in many other languages, and how is it conjugated in them ? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6894 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 24 03 July 2008 at 5:20am | IP Logged | ||
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There may be other variants than the ones I give here, but
personally I have heard it used, and use it myself in: Spanish: googlear, (pronounced guglear) Swedish: googla Finnish: kuukeloida Apart from using the verb I like to refer to it as asking "auntie Google", which also works well in other languages, except maybe in Spanish. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6151 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 3 of 24 03 July 2008 at 5:46am | IP Logged | ||
Aahh. I couldn't figure out the infinitive in Spanish. The full conjugation is here. E.g. Cuando googleaba con el término <<xyz>> 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6903 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 4 of 24 03 July 2008 at 6:08am | IP Logged | ||
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Polish: googlować (pronounced guglować)
German: googeln / googlen (in DUDEN you'll find the first form only but the second one is in use as well) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Topsiderunner Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6918 days ago 215 posts - 218 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Arabic (Written) | Message 5 of 24 03 July 2008 at 6:49am | IP Logged | ||
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This thread at wordreference has quite a few examples.
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| Kegel Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 6439 days ago 67 posts - 70 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 6 of 24 03 July 2008 at 9:10am | IP Logged | ||
As past participle we say in German "gegoogelt". Ich habe das gegoogelt. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| guilon Pentaglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6192 days ago 226 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Spanish*, PortugueseC2, FrenchC2, Italian, English | Message 7 of 24 03 July 2008 at 2:35pm | IP Logged | ||
There is an expression (relatively old by now) in Spanish for that: Preguntarle a San Google = asking Saint Google 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Aapo Diglot Newbie Finland tarpeet-on.blog Joined 6469 days ago 29 posts - 40 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English Studies: Swedish, Japanese | Message 8 of 24 03 July 2008 at 4:47pm | IP Logged | ||
I'd like to add that though "kuukeloida" has a nice, playful ring to it, it's quite rare and somewhat unobvious. The ones you see in common use are "googlettaa" and "googlata". Edited by Aapo on 03 July 2008 at 4:52pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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