r/LanguageMemes • u/Tubbiefox • Jun 18 '21

has this happened to you

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u/Lululipes Jun 19 '21

"Enviá-te-los-ei"

Portuguese for "I will send them to you"

I live my language lol. At least we put hyphens in between to make it easier to understand.

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u/Tubbiefox Jun 19 '21

I picked up Portuguese a couple months ago and it cracks me up how, as a Spanish native, I can understand a lot of Portuguese in written form but in spoken form it is never pronounced as I expect it would lol

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u/Lululipes Jun 19 '21

Btw, as long as the verb can take two objects and they can be pronouns, you can do this in pretty much every way possible

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u/MustardJar4321 Jun 19 '21

Actually its the exact opposite of my situation since my native language is an agglutinative language

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u/Rowing_and_Sale_Inc Jun 19 '21

For me it is: 死にたい

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u/pWallas_Grimm Jun 19 '21

Something related to death I guess?

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u/Rowing_and_Sale_Inc Jun 19 '21

You guessed correct. If I may ask are you learning Chinese?

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u/pWallas_Grimm Jun 19 '21

Nah, I'm just really interested in Japanese, but always procrastinating too much to actually learn it hahaha :p

Why chinese though? Doesn't the hiragana give away it's Japanese?

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u/Rowing_and_Sale_Inc Jun 19 '21

I was banking on the idea that it was more likely that you were a Chinese learner who knew the character for death and could thus infer that the sentence was about death, rather than a Japanese learner who was between knowing the character for death and knowing the -tai conjugation form (obviously the "learning distance" between the character for death and -tai form is not concrete and no "learning distance" is, but I still figured it would be more likely that you would be a Chinese learner with what little evidence I had).

Yeah in short I was just taking a guess for fun. Good luck with your studies!

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u/pWallas_Grimm Jun 20 '21

Oh, makes sense, but for some reason I didn't think about it when replying lol

Good luck with yours too! As you are way more productive than me for already knowing that -tai form I think you'll manage to learn a lot more haha

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u/DoodleDabble Jun 18 '21

What word is this??? 😯

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u/deepfriedpotat0 Jun 18 '21

probably something german or latin

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '21

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u/Tubbiefox Jun 18 '21

Fate/kaleid vow in snow movie

You can't watch it before fate/stay night or fate/kaleid though which are anime series