LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5720 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian
| Message 1033 of 2529 12 October 2009 at 3:37pm | IP Logged |
vernichten - to obliterate, German
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Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5521 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian
| Message 1034 of 2529 13 October 2009 at 12:49am | IP Logged |
der Wahlkampf
'political campaign', lit. 'election-struggle'
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gobbledigook Diglot Groupie Mexico Joined 5922 days ago 80 posts - 83 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Italian, Portuguese, French
| Message 1035 of 2529 13 October 2009 at 11:33pm | IP Logged |
Xícara - Cup, Portuguese
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LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5720 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian
| Message 1036 of 2529 14 October 2009 at 12:00am | IP Logged |
Яблоня - apple tree, Russian
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Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5521 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian
| Message 1037 of 2529 14 October 2009 at 3:54am | IP Logged |
怎么样 (zěnmeyàng)
"how about ___?", "what do you think of ___?" (placed after the thing you are asking
about), Mandarin.
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Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6657 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map
| Message 1038 of 2529 14 October 2009 at 10:22am | IP Logged |
I think we missed Y .. so
Yergo (or irgo) - 1. person singular in the present tense of the Spanish verb "erguir" (=erect)
Now that LanguageSponge has mentioned the final letter of the Russian alphabet: the funny thing is that the equivalent of the English z is з, which is put somewhere in the middle of the Cyrillic alphabet. And there is not really an y. But there are letters for sh, tsch, shtsh and ja, ju. Maybe we could also have a Cyrillic alphabet game where non-Cyrillic words were introduced on the basis of the basis of the correspondent letter in the Cyrillic alphabet - in one of its many forms. I'll start the thread and then we'll see whether it can survive.
Edited by Iversen on 14 October 2009 at 10:32am
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tricycle Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 5617 days ago 99 posts - 107 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French
| Message 1039 of 2529 14 October 2009 at 10:27am | IP Logged |
азбука - azbuka
Bulgarian, alphabet
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Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6657 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map
| Message 1040 of 2529 14 October 2009 at 3:19pm | IP Logged |
Базука = Bazooka (Russian)
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