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Keep Hoping Machine Running ([personal profile] thefourthvine) wrote2008-03-22 12:36 pm

Help, friends list?

I need translations (in any language - I will totally welcome things like Elvish and Klingon, too) for the following five words:

Welcome

Read

Listen

Create

Explore

Any bilingual/multilingual people out there who like to help me out? You'll get - okay. You'll just get thanks. But they will be very sincere thanks.

[identity profile] roga.livejournal.com 2008-03-22 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, those might be some of the hardest words to translate to Hebrew...

Welcome - baruch haba/brucha haba'ah (single male/single female, ברוכה הבאה/ברוך הבא). This is welcome as in "Welcome, sir". There isn't a verb (let alone imperative) for welcoming, other than tagid/i shalom - "say shalom".

Read - tikra/tikre'i (single male/single female, תקראי/תקרא ). Technically this is future tense, not imperative, but it works better. Otherwise it's kra/kre'i (קראי/קרא).

Listen - takshiv/takshivi (single male/single female, תקשיבי/תקשיב). Again, this is future tense, not imperative, which works better. Otherwise it's hakshev/hakshivi (הקשיבי/הקשב).

Create - titzor/titzri (תצרי/תיצור), same disclaimer as the previous two, otherwise it's tzor/tzri (צרי/צור). (There's also bra/bre'i, but that's create as in "God created", so I'm thinking that's a no.)

Explore - no exact translation. Closest words are:
tilmad/tilmedi (=learn, תלמדי/תלמד)
galeh/gali (discover, גלי/גלה)
chakor/chikri (=research, study, חקרי/חקור)

...and again, all of these are single, and either imperative or future. Which are weird in Hebrew. I could be more exact with context.