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A little variant of Word Association I thought of. It might be a little difficult to play, but I think its an interesting challenge that also allows to know more words from other languages.

For instance, a word in a foreign language - preferably, a language different from English - is put up.

Like this:

Computador (which is Portuguese for Computer)

And the next person can say in other languages - of course, he chooses only one.

For instance, French to it:

Ordinateur, I believe

So, whos' up for it? =D

I'll go ahead and give out the computer example:

Computador


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Wakarimasen - (Japanese: don't understand... I think. It's been a while since I took Japanese :p )



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Verschtae?(sp) _ Understand- German
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Rozumieć - (Polish: undestand)
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The spelleing would be "verstehen".

Ruckzuck - Now that one is difficult to translate literally but it would mean something like "in no time" / "in a jiffy". The term is German (am I within game rules if I come up with German terms? German is not a foreign language to me same as English is not for most of you.


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Well, it is  a foreign language to the rest of us..
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Quote from: Malte279,Feb 26 2009 on  04:13 PM
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Verschtae?(sp) _ Understand- German
The spelleing would be "verstehen".

Ruckzuck - Now that one is difficult to translate literally but it would mean something like "in no time" / "in a jiffy". The term is German (am I within game rules if I come up with German terms? German is not a foreign language to me same as English is not for most of you.
Yup, don't see a problem. Eheh, I also used portuguese, so.

Veloz - (Which is portuguese for fast, and other synonimes)


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Verlust - (German for loss or in the respective context casualty).


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gestorben- to die or pass away- German
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sterben would be the infinitive (to die), gestorben would be a past tense form (died).

Scherben - German for fragments.


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brennen- burn,to burn?
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