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how do you say "broken wings" in other languages... for a book I'm writing :wink:

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Hmmm

Alas rompidas in Spanish
Rácine rámar in Quenya
I don't really know or remember enough vocab in the other languages though.

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cassé vole - en francais
le ali rotte - italiano
Gebrochene Flügel - german

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gebroken vleugels - dutch
... maksura - (egyptian) arabic, but I don't know what wings are, so that's only the 'broken', and of course it's a transcriptian.

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Lauzti Spárni -- Latvian

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Asas quebradas in Portuguese
сломленные крыла in my broken Russian.

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zlomene kridla -Slovak or
zlomeny kridla - Czech

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Although the literally translation in German would be "gebrochene Flügel" the actual equivalent to 'broken wings' is "flügellahm".

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hahaha 'vleugellam' that sounds like... a beggar with a broken wing Very Happy

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rufio wrote:

Alas rompidas in Spanish

NOOOO!!
The verb "romper" is irregular. "Alas rompidas" is a regular verbal construction, that's how a four year old would phrase it.

The correct wording is: Alas rotas

Ali rotte, in Italian.

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ahh this is great, thanks everyone!! Very Happy

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Oh, that's right. I figured it was probably going to be something like that. Usually I remember those weird ones, but not today I guess.

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in turkish:

kırık kanatlar
KIRIK KANATLAR

if you are going to write it with small letters, then you should make sure that there should be no dot over "I" in the word "KIRIK".

exact spelling : kırık kanatlar (it may seem a little different if your computer doesn't support turkish characters)

(you should better download the turkish character sets for your computer (internet explorer?) to see this text correct.)

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how do you pronounce that 'pointless'-i?

Nice double meaning :wink: Smile

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D1Doris wrote:

how do you pronounce that 'pointless'-i?

Nice double meaning :wink:

Start brushing your teeth. At first, what do you do? You would press your teeth so that they would all press the teeth under/above them. Let your tongue be free, it shall not touch the palate. After that, blow out so that you make a sound. The outcome is the sound of "pointless - i" Smile

So, when you say the word "KIRIK", your mouth would have the shape of a wide cleft.

(the teeth should not necessarally be pressed, I just told it that way so that you would understand the shape of the mouth)

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now that's something to practise on!

Thanks for the explanation. I have kind of an idea of how the sound should be now, but still I'd like to meet a turkish person who could actually show it to me.
There are plenty of Turkish people here, so I guess I'll find someone.
It's interesting, I didn't know they had that sound.

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drÃ²m_et_rÃªve wrote:

Asas quebradas in Portuguese
сломленные крыла in my broken Russian.

Why not just "сломанные крылья" , обломанные крылья, ..
in what sense they're broken ? :-))

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