>>4070785
...Must you make a new thread each time?

>>4070785

You realize the point of the latin/german/french threads was to show terms in languages that game designers steal ALL THE TIME, right?

>>4070794
I am an entirely different person.

Unfortunately, despite being a stylish European traveller, I don't know very much about Slovenian. Could you provide a pronunciation guide as well?
I know some Russian, if that helps.

>>4070801
The rest show terms in languages that SHOULD BE STOLEN more often, or that's what I think.

>>4070803
My point stands. We have a ton of threads for these already. You could have picked any one of them.

>Kamen = Stone (duh)

In Slovenia...Kamen Rider is a DWARF!

>>4070806
I've tried to write them vaguely phonetically, what with all the y's and stuff. Slovenian doesn't have Y, W or Q, and what we write as j we pronounce the way English folk pronounce y. If we want to pronounce something the way you pronounce j, we write "dj".

Also, pretty much all the vowels should technically be written with an h afterwards if you really want to make an american pronounce them vaguely correctly. So kovina would probably be more phonetically spelled kohvihnah.

/tg/ - Travel Guides

Someone should collate the useful bits of all the language threads, and make a .doc of it or something. It could prove a handy resource.

>>4070844
Oh, another pronunciation tip occurs to me. If a word ends with a c, that doesn't mean you should pronounce it as a k. So lovec is not made out of sweet gentle love and a "k", because the c is prounced as what you usually render as ts.

>>4070842
Man, something in my brain always autocorrects "kamen rider" to "kekko kamen rider".

I should probably get that fixed.

you have no history, culture, or reason to be a country

even the parody of better slav languages you'd like to call your language is shit

>>4070878

no.

>>4070887
Well, at least you can buy alcohol really cheap there.

>>4070887
We have a long history of being oppressed by fucking Germans. Well, fucking Austrians to be more specific. And we have a long standing culture of getting drunk and having our first books written in our language burned by the Catholic Church. The reason we're a country is because we were the first to notice Yugoslavia was falling apart and we got the fuck out while the getting was good, which meant that we managed to beat off the army that tried to stop us in ten days of war. We were lucky - the next bit of yugoslavia that tried to make itself independent was fought for much harder.
I've seen interviews of the soldiers our side captured. The grunts of the Yugoslav National Army had been told they were coming to defend us from a NATO invasion so they had no idea WTF was going on when the Slovenian forces started shooting at them.
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Also, I noticed the German has more words up, so here you go!

Eagle = Orel
Falcon/Hawk = Sokol
Bear = Medved
Lion = Lev
Wolf = Volk
Fox = Lisica (lee-sitsa)
Cat = Matchka, or Matchek if it's a boy-cat
Mouse = Mish, or Mishka if it's small
Rat = Podgana
Marten = ??? I have no idea what this word means.
Ermine = I think this is some sort of rodent.
Weasel = Podlasica
Rhino = Nosorog. (lit. nose-horn)
Unicorn = Samorog (lit. solitary-horn)
Faery = Vila (veela, such as the ones in Harry Potter)
Dragon = Zmay
Wyrm/Drake = No equivalent word exists
Demon = Demon
Devil = Huditch, Hudi Duh (lit. The Bad Spirit) Peklenschek (someone from, or made of Hell)

Also, in a lot of these words, you might find a lot of letters missing vowels. This is because Slovenian is a great fan of the invisible half-vowel you get when you pronounce the "u" in DURRRRRR HURRR. Or the e in DERP. So you just stick a short version of that sound into words like SMRT (death, if you recall)

I don't see you on this picture.

Therefore, you don't exist.

>>4071119
According to that picture Canada doesn't exist either. Or Brazil. Stupid fucking Japan.

>>4071119
That's because we got kicked over by the Nazis almost immediately and spent the whole war hiding in the woods, taking pot shots at troop carriers.

Well, actually we were also occupied by Italy, whose incompetence was the only reason our partisan guerillas ever got their hands on serious weaponry, since you could steal from the Italians to fight the Germans. After italy kicked it and only the Germans remained, shit was less fun.

Actually, only half of Slovenia fought the Nazis, the other half signed on with the Catholic church into Homeguard units which fought alongside the Nazis to prevent this area from falling under Soviet influence.

>>4071163
Your church was doing it wrong.

>>4071119
In the upper right, is that supposed to be an Albanian, who is also an albino?

>>4071199
Oh, that's an old Prussian flag...

>>4070785

How about some of your crazy grammar up in this motherfucker?

>>4071199

Prussia, everybody hates Prussia, that's why they're alone. Originaly even the Germans hated Prussia.

>>4070785
A lot of these words hold the same meaning in pretty much every slavic language. Interesting.

Statistically, no one speaks Wichita. There is one extant fluent speaker, and she's been alive since 1927.

>>4070785
NOW I understand that phrase they use in Chechnya. Svobodna ili smert I think?

>>4071293
Maybe "Svoboda ili smert"? It's "Liberty or death!"

>>4071242
Well, let's see. There are lots of ways you modify words. For an example, bear ("medved") has these options

1. Medved (bear)
2. Medveda (of the bear)
3. Medvedu (to the bear, in the sense of giving the bear something)
4. Medveda (to the bear, in the sense of doing something to the bear)
5. pri Medvedu (by the bear, in the vicinity)
6. z Medvedom (with the bear)

And that was singular.

Then, two bears.

1. Dva Medveda( two bears)
2. Dveh Medvedov (of two bears)
3. Dvema Medvedoma (giving something to two bears)
4. Dva Medveda (doing something to two bears)
5. pri Dveh Medvedih (next to two bears)
6. z Dvema Medvedoma (with two bears)

and now three bears!

1. Triye Medvedi (three bears)
2. Treh Medvedov (of three bears)
3. Trem Medvedom (giving shit to three bears)
4. Tri Medvede (doing shit to three bears)
5. pri Treh Medvedih (next to three bears)
6. z Tremi Medvedi (with three bears)

>>4071355
Oh. Now i see the difference.

- Rusfag

>>4071355

Wow, you people are crazy. In an awesome way. Am I correct in the assumption that multiple bears, starting with three, use the same case, or have you gone far enough to get the poor beasts different declinations for four, five, six, seven, etc?

>>4071355
Also, words have genders. Medved is a masculine word, so it gets the masculine shape of adjective. The adjective depends on the gender, the number of the noun and what you're using the noun for.

Dva Medveda is different from Dve Medvedki (two female bears) in most of the 18 forms the pair of words can take.

>>4071355
Is that -ov suffix indicative of possession in last names too? Like Kuznetsov meaning he belongs to a specific region/tribe/whatever?
I think the -ovich suffix is to describe someone's patrilineal heritage, right?

>>4071407
... Holy fucking shit.

>>4071407

Alright, as a Germanfag, I can get behind that gender thing.
But that extra case for two of a thing is unsettling.

>>4071394
Yes, we're sane after three.

>>4071417
-ov is a generic suffix denoting belonging. It doesn't need to mean a group. If something has the adjective "medvedov", it means it belongs to bear.

-ovich is generally considered a surname that belongs to more southern people, such as Croatians and Serbs. In Slovenia, we have the more western tradition of having surnames based on jobs, such as "John Smith" being "Janez Kovach". Also, a lot of the time it's not -ovich anymore, just -ich.

>-ovich is generally considered a surname that belongs to more southern people, such as Croatians and Serbs.

Croatia here. We reject you and the other slavs. Especially serbs.

>>4071639
Hah, as Slovenians, our entire culture is based on the vague feeling of slight superiority we feel over everyone who lives south of us. Of course Croatians aren't as bad as Serbs, because while you're a bit south, you're not as south.

>>4071686

Europe...is awesome.

>>4071355
As a Russian speaker I find this interesting.

>>4071639
That's okay, guys. You just do that and we'll pretend our dads didn't bang yo mommas.

Language test of manliness! Slavturn!
Translate these names please:

Stonebeard Fiststone
Fistbeard Beardaxe
Beardfist Stonefist
Stonebeard Beardstone
Axefist Beardaxe
Axebeard Beardstone
Buff McManly
Rock Hardcheese

You can change the names if you see this act as necessary.

>>4071769
They were too busy stacking TVs on tractors and running.

>>4071781
Slovenian is actually very weak when it comes to composing new words. It really doesn't handle just sticking words together. As such, science fiction in particular, when written or translated into Slovenian, sounds laughable.

But I'll try anyway.

Stonebeard Fiststone - Pestkamna Kamenabrada
Fistbeard Beardaxe - Pestbrade Bradatasekira
Beardfist Stonefist - Bradatapest Kamenapest
Stonebeard Beardstone - Kamenabrada Bradakamna
Axefist Beardaxe - Sekirepest Bradatasekira
Axebeard Beardstone - Sekirebrada Kamenabrada
Buff McManly Nabiti Mozshakovich
Rock Hardcheese Skala Trdisir.

Mind you, you could reasonably use one of those two joint words, such as Stonebeard, by saying it as Kamenobradi, which makes it into an adjective meaning "he of the stone beard". Like calling somene Charles the Great, you'd be calling the dwarf Dorf The Stone-Bearded.

>>4071781
A bit of serbian:
Kamenobradi Pesnicokamen
Pesnicobradi Bradosekira
Bradopesnica Kamenpesnica
Kamenbrada Bradokamen
Sekirpesnica Bradosekira
Sekirobradi Bradokamen
Krupni MekMuzhevni
Kamen Tvrdosirni
There can be some more variation but I don't feel like it.

Not Slovenian but way too similar for me to make a new thread. Plus I don't feel like it.

>>4071861
>>4071862
Thanks a lot, guys. Slavdorfs sound good.

wow that chick is hot and i'd hit it. I'm no longer interested in the three dimensional world as i explained yesterday. carry on.

>>4071964
Just thought that "Kamen Tvrdosirni" might sound better as "Kamen Tvrdosir", which is also valid, and much more awesome-sounding. You're welcome.

Gromgora is a very dorfy name, to be perfectly honest.

>>4071983
The three words generally associated with storms are Grom, Blisk and Tresk.
Grom being the sound of the thunder, Blisk being the flash of lightning and Tresk being the sound of lightning falling.

A storm is a Nevihta, incidentially. An archaic term would be Huda Ura, or "Bad Hour".

There was surely SOMETHING that your country did during WW2, was it ?

I AM SO S-M-R-T

Also, accuratecommissar.jpeg.

Archived because this language thread manages to be worthwhile. More dwarf names and Slovenian grammar!

>>4072012
>Grom being the sound of the thunder,

FUCK YEAH YOU ARE THE BEST LANGUAGE EVER

>>4072057
Thunder is "Grom" in all slavic languages

>>4072015
Like I said, we got kicked over by the Nazis when we were still The Kingdom of Serbs, Croatians and Slovenes (actual name!) which had previously been known as the Republic of Slovenes, Croatians and Serbs. Half of Slovenia joined the partisans and killed Nazis for the proletariat, and half joined the Homeguard, were sworn in to serve Hitler on a soccer field and fought the partisans. Then the partisans won and we killed the fuck out of the Homeguard, Nazi christfags that they were.
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Now let's watch the various forms of the verb "to mine" (rudariti) (KEEP IN MIND THE J IS PRONOUNCED Y)

Jaz rudarim (I mine)
Ti rudarish (you mine)
On/ona rudari (he/she mines)

Midva/Midve rudariva (We two males/females mine)
Vidva/vidve rudarita (You two males/females mine)
Onadva/onidve rudarita (Those two males/females mine)

Mi Rudarimo (We mine)
Vi Rudarite (You mine plural)
Oni/One Rudarijo (They mine)

Groups including at least one male are considered to be male. Thus, a thousand women mining would be "one rudarijo", but if you add a single man to the group, it is treated as if it is a group of men and becomes oni rudarijo.

What are your words for Son and Daugter? And how can they be incorporated in the names?

>>4072125
A son is "sin" and a daughter is, oh god, I have no idea how I'm going to type this out, a daughter is "hcherkha".

Typically, if you were going to include descent, you'd just use -ov and -ova depending on gender to denote "whose" the person in question is. I mean, you don't need to specify if Tanya is her father's daughter or son, most people can guess.

Can you maybe use the same motherfucking thread for this shit?

>>4072149

Wikipedia just claimed you have... 48 different dialects on a speaker base of 2,5 million or so...
... how come?

Also, words that /tg/ might be interested in have occured to me.

For the Imperium (of Man) - Za Imperiy (Chloveshtva)!
For the Greater Good - Za Vechye Dobro!
Blood for the Blood God - Kree za Boga Krvee!
Skulls for the Skull Throne - Lobanye za Prestol Lobany
Love can Bloom - Lyubezen lahko Zoree
METAL BOXES - KOVINSKE SCHKATLE!!!
Steel Rain - Yekleni Dezsch
Holy Flame - Sveti Plamen
Blasphemy - Bogokletye (lit. God-cursing)
HERESY - Hereziya, Kriva Vera (lit. Bent Faith)
Heretic - Krivoverec, a female heretic is a krivoverka

>>4072176
Hilly country and most people didn't travel. If you traveled, chances were you had an education, and if you had an education, chances were you'd learned German and spoke German to other people.

>>4072248

I see, thanks.

Over 9 minutes in Paint.

Slovenian is not a language, don't believe the propaganda. It's a dialect of Russian - look, they don't even have a flag of their own./

>>4072475
Yes they do. It's the Russian flag with their little seal on it.

let's see now:

Smrt = Death (Mrtev = dead) (also, Death is traditionally considered to be female, because Morena (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marzanna) was female) - zomg it's the same!!! (no surprise, really)
Kámen = Stone (duh)
Železo = Iron
Ocel = Steel
Veliký = Great, huge
Bolest = Pain
Pařát = Claw
Jed = Poison, toxic
Prokletí = Curse
Hrob = crypt, grave
Hrobka = tomb
Pohřebiště = Burial ground
Hřbitov = Graveyard
Rytíř = Knight
Križák = Crusader (Kříž = Cross)
Čaroděj = Wizard
Mág = Mage/Magican
Lovec = Hunter
Duch = Ghost
Rukojmí = Hostage
Noc = Night
Mrtvola = Corpse
Hrom = Thunder
Oheň = Fire (duh)
Hora = Mountain
Pevnost = Fortress
Hrad = Castle
Nemoc = Disease, illness etc.
Nebe a Peklo = Heaven and Hell
Čepel = Blade
Meč = Sword
Ďábel = The Devil

>>4072533
You know, when we declared independence from Yugoslavia, I as a kid was dismayed at having to draw so complex a flag. I much prefered the Yugoslavian version with the red star in the center.

Parte deux
Eagle = Orel
Falcon/Hawk = Sokol
Bear = Medvěd
Lion = Lev
Wolf = Vlk
Fox = Liška
Cat = Kočka (kocour for male)
Mouse = Myš
Rat = Krysa
Weasel = Sysel
Rhino = Nosorožec (lit. nose-horn)
Unicorn = Jednorožec (lit. one-horn)
Faery = Víla
Dragon = Drak
Wyrm/Drake = What is the difference between these and Dragon again? We have a word "Saň", which is usually used to mean multi-headed dragon.
Demon = Démon
Devil (the) = Ďábel
Devil (denizen of Hell) = Pekelník

>>4072685
>I much prefered the Yugoslavian version with the red star in the center.
WILL NO ONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?

For the Imperium (of Man) - Za Impérium (Lidstva)!
For the Greater Good - Za Větší Dobro! (sentence sounds at least 50% more gay in Czech than in English)
Blood for the Blood God - Krev pro boha krve!
Skulls for the Skull Throne - Lebky pro trůn (z) lebek
Love can Bloom - Láska může kvést
METAL BOXES - ŽELEZNÉ KRABICE!!! (the last E pronounced long if raging)
Steel Rain - Ocelobý Déšť
Holy Flame - Svatý Plamen
Blasphemy - Rouhání
HERESY - Rouhačství
Heretic - Heretik / Rouhač

>>4071781
There's a bunch of possible translations
Stonebeard Fiststone - Kamenobrad Pěstokámen
Fistbeard Beardaxe - Pěsťobrad Bradosekera
Beardfist Stonefist - Bradopěst Kamenopěst
Stonebeard Beardstone - Kamenobrad Bradokámen
Axefist Beardaxe - Sekeropěst Bradosekera
Axebeard Beardstone - Sekerobrad Bradokámen
Buff McManly - Silák McMužný (Mc has no equivalent in Czech and does not appear in Czech names)
Rock Hardcheese - Kámen Tvrdosýr

>>4072697
How else can a five year old draw a pentagram in red crayon without arousing suspicion?

>>4072622
Fuck, made a mistake during the C&P
Crypt = Krypta (definitely not hrob)