Psion WordPro (c)1997 PROTRONICS@compuserve.com * Foreign Greetings * EXPRESSIONS FOR "GOOD DAY" (GREET) Australian G'day mate Chinese Ho Yat (Cantonese) Nee Hau (Mandarin) Guao Za (Taiwanese) Dutch Goeden dag! (pronounced 'goo-dun-dag', Scottish 'g') Hoi Hallo (like 'Hello') Finnish Hyvaa paivaa ('a' letters have two dots above them) French Bonjour German Guten Tag Hebrew Shalom mah Shlomcha Indian Shubh Dhin (Hindi) Meri le lo (Hindi) Namaste (Hindi; accent on the e) Italian Buon giorno Japanese Ohayoo gozaimasu (Good morning!) before 10-11 A.M. Konnichi wa (Good day!) after 10 - 11 A.M. Konban wa (Good evening!) after ~5 P.M. Oyasumi nasai (Good night!) when going to bed Latin Salve! (singular) Salvete! (plural) Malaysian Selamat Sejahtera Selamat Pagi (Good morning) Selamat Petang (Good afternoon) Polish Dzien dobry Portugese Bom dia Russian Dobryi Den Pryviet Spanish Buenos dias Welsh Dydd da! (translated literally) Bore da! (Good morning!) Pnawn da! (Good afternoon!) Noswaith dda! (Good evening!) Nos da! (Good night!) EXPRESSIONS FOR "GOOD BYE" Afrikaan Totsiens Arabic Ma'assalama. British Later, old chap. Here's mud in your face. Canadian Catch ya on the flipside! Take off, eh Chinese Dzai Jyan (Mandarin) Czech Na shledanou Sbohem Danish Farvel (farewell) Hej ("Hi" or "So long", depending on context) Dutch Dooooooooi! (pronounced DEWEY) Daag English Good bye See yaa! Later! Get the fuck outta here! (East Los Angeles) Finnish Nakemiin Hyvasti French A bientot Au revoir Adieu German Auf Wiedersehen (more formal) Tschuess (more casual) Bis denn (see ya) Greek Yasou Hebrew Shalom Indonesian Selamat Tinggal (Bahasa Indonesia) Irish Slan leat Slan abhaile Slan go foill Italian Addio Arrivederci Japanese Sayonara Jaa nee Jaa mata Bai bai Latin addedee-addedee Vale! (singular) Valete! (plural) Malay Selamat Tinggal. Jumpa Lagi Selamat Sejahtera Norwegian Ha det bra Adjoe Philippine Paalam Russian Dasvidania Slovak Do videnia Sbohom Spanish Adios Hasta la vista, baby (Schwartzeneggerian) Swahili Kwaheri ya kuonana Swedish Hej da Synes Adjo Turkish Gule gule gidin Welsh Hwyl fawr EXPRESSIONS FOR "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" Afrikaans Geluk Met Jou Verjaarsdag Amharic Enquan Lelidetih Adereseh Arabic Eed Milad Sa`id Australian Appy birthday, mate! Canadian Happy Berthday, eh Bonne Fete Catalan Bon Cop De Fals Chinese sheng ri k'uai lo sung yut fi lok (Cantonese) Danish Til Lykke Paa Fodselsdagen Dutch Gelukkige verjaardag Hartelijk Gefeliciteerd Esperanto Felic^an Naskig^daton Finnish Hyvaa Syntymapaivaa French Bonne Anniversaire! German Alles Gute Zum Geburtstag Greek Chronia Polla Hawaiian Hau'oli la hanau Hebrew Yom Huledet Sameach Yom Huledet Sameach, Ad Me'ah Ve'esrim Shana (may you live to 120) Hungarian Boldog Szuletesnapot Indian Janmadin Mubarak (Hindi & Urdu) Indonesian Selamat Ulang Tahun Italian Buon Compleanno Japanese Otanjoobi omedetoo Kannada Janmadinada Vandanegalu Malayalam Janmadina aashamsakal Malaysian selamat hari jadi Marathi Shubh Vadhdivas Norwegian Gratulerer med dagen Polish Wszystkiego Naylepshego Z Okazyi Urodzin Romanian La Multi Ani Russian Pozdravlayem Z Dnyem Rozdyenya Spanish Feliz Cumpleanos! Suthunn Happy buthday, y'all Swedish Grattis pa fodelsedagen! Tagalog Maligayang Bati Tamil Poranda Naal Valthukal Telugu Janmadina Subhaa Kaankshalu Thai Suk-san Wan-gerd Urdu Saal Girra Mubarak Ho Vietnamese Chu'c Mu+`ng Sinh Nha^.t Welsh Pen-blwydd Hapus EXPRESSIONS FOR "I LOVE YOU" Afrikaans Ek is lief vir jou Ek het jou liefe Albanian Ti je zemra ime Amharic Afekrishalehou Arabic Ana Behibak (to a male) Ana Behibek (to a female) Basc Nere Maitea Bavarian I mog di narrisch gern Bengali Ami tomAy bhAlobAshi Berber Lakh tirikh Bicol Namumutan ta ka Braille :..:| ..:| |..-.. .::":.., :.:; Bulgarian Obicham te Cambodian kh_nhaum soro_lahn nhee_ah Bon sro lanh oon Catalan T'estim (mallorcan) T'estime (valencian) T'estimo (catalonian) T'estim molt (I love you a lot) Chinese Wo ai ni (Mandarin) Ngo oi ney (Cantonese) Croatian LJUBim te Czech miluji te Danish Jeg elsker dig Dutch Ik houd van jou Estonian Mina armastan sind Esperanto Mi amas vin Farsi Tora dust midaram Finnish Mina rakastan sinua Flemish Ik zie oe geerne French Je t'aime Je vous aime Friesian Ik hou fan dei (sp?) Gaelic Ta gra agam ort German Ich liebe dich Greek S' ayapo Hausa Ina sonki Hebrew aNEE oHEIVET oTKHA (female to male) aNEE oHEIV otAKH (male to female) Ani ohev at (man to woman) Ani ohevet atah (woman to man) Hindi Mae tumko peyar kia Hokkien Wa ai lu Hopi Nu' umi unangwa'ta Hungarian Szeretlek te'ged Icelandic eg elska thig (pronounced "yeg l-ska thig") Indian Nenu Ninnu Premisthunnanu (Telugu) My Tumse Pyaar Kartha Hun (Hindi) Indonesian Saya cinta padamu Saya Cinta Kamu Aku tjinta padamu Saja kasih saudari Italian Ti amo Irish taim i' ngra leat Japanese Kimi o ai shiteiru (anata ga) Aishiteiru Kiswahili Nakupenda Korean Tangsinul sarang ha yo Kurdish Ez te hezdikhem (?) Latin Te amo Amo te Vos amo Lao Khoi huk chau Lingala Nalingi yo Luo Aheri Madrid lingo Me molas, tronca Malaysian Sayah Chantikan Awah Aku sayang enkow Malay Aku sayang padamu Aku cinta padamu Engkaulah permata hatiku Mohawk Konoronhkwa Navaho Ayor anosh'ni Ndebele Niyakutanda Norwegian Jeg elsker deg (Bokmaal) Eg elskar deg (Nynorsk) Pakistani Muje se mu habbat hai Persian Tora dost daram Philippine Mahal Kita Iniibig Kita Polish Kocham Cie Yacha kocham Portuguese Eu te amo Romanian Te iu besc Russian Ya lyublyu tebya Ya vas lyublyu Scot Gaelic Tha gra\dh agam ort Serbian LUBim te. Serbocroatian volim te Shona Ndinokuda Sioux Techihhila Slovak lubim ta Slovene ljubim te Spanish Te amo Te quiero Swahili Nakupenda Swedish Jag a"lskar dig Swiss-German Ch'ha di ga"rn Tagalog Mahal kita Tamil Nan Unnai Kathalikaren Thai Phom Rak Khun Ch'an Rak Khun Tunisian Ha eh bak Turkish Seni seviyurum Urdu Mujge tumae mahabbat hai Vietnamese Anh ye^u em (man to woman) Em ye^u anh (woman to man) Toi yeu em Vlaams Ik hue van ye Welsh 'Rwy'n dy garu di. Yr wyf i yn dy garu di (chwi) Yiddish Ikh hob dikh lib Yugoslavian Ya te volim Zazi Ezhele hezdege (sp?) Zuni Tom ho' ichema