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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 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Hebrew also has roots, yup, and the root of 'hear' are the letters ש-מ-ע (shin, mem, ayin). I translated 'listen' as a word derived from the root ק-ש-ב (kuf, shin, bet), but I suppose I could also have used "shma", since you can't actually command someone to hear something, but to listen. Or you can, but what you mean is listen, just like in English, I guess: you're saying, hear my words, listen to my words.

I know what you mean about patterns; we call them "buildings", and there are seven main ones, that each change the meaning of the root.

I'm not sure what you mean about the "verbal noun", but it's very likely we have something equivalent; I just suck at knowing the names of things in grammar, sentence structure, etc, especially in English.