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Language challenge?!

WITHOUT LOOKING IT UP, Your job is to figure out which language each sentence is and translate what you think it is!

1. Das Wasser ist gefroren.

2. Estoy casada con la reina.

3. Vedere è credere.

4. Fisken kommer från Tyskland.

5. Dieu le veut.

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DDonde · 31-35, M

The water is something. Frozen?
I am wedded to the queen?
Seeing is believing? (Seeing and believing?)
Fish come from Tyskland (lol I have no idea)
I don't know.

SW-User

Which number sentence is in which language? What are the languages for each sentence? @DDonde

DDonde · 31-35, M

@SW-User
1. German
2. Spanish
3. Either Portuguese or Italian, maybe
4. Some Scandinavian language (not Finnish)
5. French, I think.

SW-User

Explain how you figured out sentence #1? @DDonde

DDonde · 31-35, M

@SW-User I know a bit of German. The only word I didn't know was "gefroren", but given that we're talking about water, and that it looks like "frozen", I guessed frozen.

SW-User

How did you figure #2?
@DDonde

DDonde · 31-35, M

@SW-User I just knew the Spanish. It took me a moment to remember what casada meant though.

SW-User

You’re right about #3 and it’s Italian, how did you figure that one? @DDonde

DDonde · 31-35, M

@SW-User I dunno, it just looks Italian? 🤔
If you say it with an Italian accent, it sounds like it would fit?
The words Vedere sounds like spanish "Ver", and Credere looks like the Spanish "creer"

SW-User

4 is Swedish and means “the fish is from Germany” how did you figure it out sort of? @DDonde

DDonde · 31-35, M

@SW-User Fish from Fisken was just a guess. "kommer" is almost identical with German kommen, fran kinda sounds like the German "von" or the English "from".

SW-User

The final one is French, what do think it means? @DDonde

DDonde · 31-35, M

@SW-User I don't know. Dieu sounds like "Adieu", and I know le veut is "the something", but I don't know what veut is.

SW-User

It actually means “god wills it” the “le” is the word “the” in French “it goes before the verb so word for word it means “god it wills” but it means “god wills it” it was a battle cry during the crusades! @DDonde

DDonde · 31-35, M

@SW-User Oh, so it's synonymous with Deus Vult

SW-User

That’s Latin? I think that just would mean “god wills” I dont think that phrase has a word there for “it” or does it?

@DDonde

DDonde · 31-35, M

@SW-User I was familiar with that Latin version. There may be a version of the phrase with "it".

SW-User

Just did another! Go check it out! Good luck! @DDonde