My hovercraft is full of eels.

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Re: My hovercraft is full of eels.

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:con: Rozwi

Zyušlan inu ye dmoztnunnitin voθič.
hover.ship 1SG.GEN be<PRS>3SG eel<COLL>GEN full

dmoztnunniti veθčueš zyušlana inu.
eel<COLL>NOM fill<PRS>3PL hover.ship-ACC.SG 1SG.GEN

I already had a word for "hovercraft" (in Kankonian, at least, not in any of my other languages) before I saw this translation challenge.

Would you believe that one of my first 100 words in Rozwi was 'hovercraft'?
These are reasons why:
Spoiler:
Hovercraft racing (all bouncy bouncy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h18FOjnv6YY

Aero-X (U kno U want one!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akA-B64RACU

my personal fave (noisy tho it be)

Moller 300X
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY85eExk7Zo

W00T!
Hah! Now there's a spin on a Swadesh List: list your first 200 words you made up in your conlang.
I can easily do it for Rozwi; I still have the loose-leaf pages of my first meanderings.

But for Chetara and Sadraas, no dice: I had gotten a computer by then, an Aquarius "el crappo 500" toy and a then a Tandy 1000 ( 5¼ floppy drive~!), and it was simply dictionary-making from the git-go.

XXXVII wrote: What age group is he in?
Male child unit completed a dozen revolutions bestrid upon the Earth around the Sun.
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Lambuzhao wrote:Hah! Now there's a spin on a Swadesh List: list your first 200 words you made up in your conlang.
That needs to be a thread... Yesterday!
Male child unit completed a dozen revolutions bestrid upon the Earth around the Sun.
Perfect amount of child unit upgrade cycles to begin that manner of "education."
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:con: Azen:

Mēnīn erobak subkicēdīd balsǣ.
1SG.GEN hovercraft eel-PL full.of
My hovercraft is full of eels.

Balsǣ is a postposition here. Azen has a thing for adpositions.
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Re: My hovercraft is full of eels.

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:got:

Mein fliutaskip ist full ele.
[mi:n ˈfliṷtɑˌskip ist ful: ˈe:le:]
my floatship be.3SG-PRS full eel.PL-GEN
My hovercraft is full of eels.

:got: :con: Gothlandic

Mít fljútaskip ist full af élum.
[mi:t ˈflju:taˌskɪp ɪst fʏˀl af ˈje:lʏm]
my floatship be.3SG-PRS full of eel.PL-DAT
My hovercraft is full of eels.

:got: :con: Nidrosian

Mit flydeskib ist full af ele.
[mi:t ˈfly:ðəˌskip ist fuˀl ɑf ˈe:lə]
my floatship be.3SG-PRS full eel.PL
My hovercraft is full of eels.
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Re: My hovercraft is full of eels.

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Google Translate wrote: :hun: Magyar nyelv
Saját légpárnás tele van angolna .
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Re: My hovercraft is full of eels.

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I think Bing gets you closer, though it drops the "van" which I'm keeping in.

:hun: A légpárnás hajóm tele van angolnával.
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Feels great to construct such a sentence in my conlang without looking at the dictionary. And guess what, my conworld features a fictional anti-gravitational liquid, which is fairly common. It doesn't feature any eels, though! The word "hovercraft" is something natural, but there are no words for "eels"!

:con: Ahtialan Ayllawai

Ірвар аsібар хат ӧм ю іљы.
[ˈir.wär ˈäsi.ˌbär hät ɔi̯m ju ˈiʎ͡ʑɨ]
GEN-1SG hovercraft is full of eel-PL
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:con: Leopardish

Pewipewi loungu ta pakkupale o mai.
pewi~pewi loungu ta pakku-pale o mai
PL-fill eel SG boat-hover GEN 1s
[pʲeɨˈpʲeːɨ lou̯ŋ ta pʲakuˈpʲaːle oː mʲai̯]

:con: Nizhmel

cè miezhluòsal giemshìm shiòyen
cè miezh-luò-sal giem-shìm shiò-yen
1s hover-power-vehicle eel-fish shiò-yen
[t͡sʰɛː ↗mʲeʐlu̯osal kʲemɕim↘ ɕøːen↗]
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Re: My hovercraft is full of eels.

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A jokelang:

zh'qrwuoĝ'yḛhȑẓn ee
1s to_have_one's_hovercraft_full_of_eels
[ʐːqˈχʷʌːǂi̯æ̃ɲɻːɳ eː]
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Re: My hovercraft is full of eels.

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Lao Kou wrote:I think Bing gets you closer, though it drops the "van" which I'm keeping in.

:hun: A légpárnás hajóm tele van angolnával.

Van egy teljesen angolai légpárnás hajó.


google translate gave me that for this-
I have a completely Angolan hovercraft
[xP]
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Re: My hovercraft is full of eels.

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Lambuzhao wrote:
Google Translate wrote:
Spoiler:
I have a completely Angolan hovercraft
Well, of course you do.
Angola is where all the best ground-effect fishing vehicles are made.



Bing translator says
Spoiler:
Angola is a hovercraft
.



Google Translate told me "We have a full English hovercraft.".
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eldin raigmore wrote:Angola is a hovercraft.
Rhythm is a dancer.
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Re: My hovercraft is full of eels.

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Lao Kou wrote:
eldin raigmore wrote:Angola is a hovercraft.
Rhythm is a dancer.
It's a soul's companion.
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:con: Lonmai Luna

romanization: inhumepeman-se ala aspot gekes ep ler.
interlinear: hovercraft-1.SG PASSIVE fill eel ADV be.full
English translation: My hovercraft is full of eels.
Note: inhumepeman "hovercraft" is a compound of inhu "air" + mep "mat, cushion" + eman "vehicle"
I prefer to not be referred to with masculine pronouns and nouns such as “he/him/his”.
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Re: My hovercraft is full of eels.

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I borrowed the words for hovercraft and eel from English with maybe a sound change or two. This construction is a little uncommon, to say the least. It most accurately translated to "Eels are my-hovercraft-contained in" or something like that.

hiɣin hyvokrafṭaiheẓym yilu

This one makes more sense, although the first is also correct.

iḍenin ťraxa yili ṭai hyvokrafty


It translates as "my hovercraft has many eels"
I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing.
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:con: Urban Basanawa:

我い浮艇ゐるだと満る゚どみど鰻す
我い 浮艇 ゐるだと 満る゚ど みど 鰻す(spaced text)
/maɪ 'fli:t.ʃɪp wɪrdət fɪɫt mɪt a:ls/
my fleetship wirdet filled mid aals(romanization)
1.SG.POSS hovercraft become.3.SG.PRES with eel-PL(interlinear)
My hovercraft is full of eels.
I prefer to not be referred to with masculine pronouns and nouns such as “he/him/his”.
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ráin drètʲ-gīrb-šʙōn̥a gròf m̥oŋʲ nʀæ̀fʲ
rá-in drètʲ-gīrb-šʙōn̥-a gròf m̥oŋʲ nʀæ̀fʲ
I-GEN ground-fly-boat-ABS be.full with eel
"My hovercraft is full of eels", alternatively, "My hovercraft is pregnant with an eel".

(gròf m̥oŋʲ = be.full with = full of, also used as an euphemism for pregnancy. The only real way to get around this woul be to replace m̥oŋʲ ‘with’ with læn̥ ‘from’, but that would lead to one's hovercraft having been impregnated by an eel.)
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:con: Mīrna

Nāya vīlkūcti mī pakkaranna nayin.
nāy-a vīlkūcti mī pakkar-anna nayin
1-GEN hovercraft have fill-ACTIVE.PCTPL eel
[naːʝɔ viːlkʊstɪ miː pɐkːɐrɐnːɔ nɐʝɪn]
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Frislandian

spaaskuhinakurtianum ta loilimmenet lyykukken
[ˈs̪paːs̪.ˌku.hi.n̪a.ˌkʊr.t̪i.a.n̪ʊm ta ˈl̪o̞.i.ˌl̪ɪ.mːe̞.n̪ɛt̚ ˈl̪ɨː.kʊ.kːɛn̪]
air-cushion-wagon-1.POSS TOP eel-PL-ERG fill.DEF.3-3.PL.ERG
My hovercraft is full of eels

Note that "to fill" is a transitive verb. Also note the word for "hovercraft", which is both structurally equivalent to the German "Luftkissenfahrzeug" and contains not one but two Basque loanwords ("kuhina" and "kurtia").
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:fra: French
Mon aéroglisseur est plein d'anguilles.
/mɔ̃.n‿a.e.ʁo.gli.sœʁ ɛ plɛ̃ dɑ̃.gij/
1SG.POSS.M.SG hovercraft be.PRS.IND.3SG full.M of=eel{PL}

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Miev aerodichiglaür ét plen d'anguilas.
[ˈmiː.v‿a(.ə).ɾɔ.dɪ.kɪ.ʎaˈoː.ɾ‿ɪ ˈplãː dõˈgo̯eː.la]
1SG.POSS.M.SG hovercraft.NOM-SG be.PRS.IND.3SG full.NOM.M.SG of=eel-NOM{PL}

Image Romanglic
Anguilliforms occupy ego's entire air cushion vehicle.

My hovercraft is full of eels.
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