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Veedivilst and fohng uhn fin uhnfong are my favorites.
Someone once told me he thought far-fetched was a yiddish word. “Farfetched.” I like it.
Whenever we were about to start a gemora my sixth grade rebbe would always say, “I’m sure you all know the old Chinese proverb, fohng uhn fin uhnfong!” I love the word farblunget.
BSD, what do those mean?
Can you please translate these words???
“Fargin” is the perfect Yiddish word. It expresses such an essential position of yahadus.
Voosi-what’s it
Veedivilst means wherever you want. Fohng uhn fin uhnfong is begin at the beginning.
chnyock.
famisht.
Okay, I’ll try to translate:
Veedivilst: Wherever you want
fohng uhn fin uhnfong: Start from the beginning
Fargin: Don’t know how to explain this one. Let’s say your neighbor gets a new car and you mutter something like, “Oh look, so and so got a new car” and then another car crashes into it. So your neighbor would say, “Someone didn’t fargin me.” I think that’s right. Someone correct me if I’m wrong. Another example. “My father’s eating a delicious piece of chocolate cake. It splats down on his shirt. He’d say “someone didn’t fargin me” Or something like that. Not fargin means you’re not happy for the person, so fargin means you are I guess.
Yiddish phrase I like: It’s not really Yiddish, but when my grandmother says, “Choochum” (Chacham in Hebrew),I always crack up.
My faves:
Chap
Areinkativen
Oisgeshpruchen
chichken
Hak nisht in tchainik.
Literal translation: Don’t bang in the kettle
Figurative: Gimme a break!
Farfalin means lost or hopeless.
Opgrunt is an abyss.
Fahrblungit means to go astray.
Ahnshpurin means to lean or to incline towards.
I know kapusta as the word for cabbage and dishes made from cabbage such as stuffed cabbage and sauerkraut. I think that it is a Slavic word used by Yiddish speakers.
kichel mit branfen…what could be better?
OMG!! I go 2 a ashkenaz skool and my teacher (the one im OB with) is chassidish..LOL so as immature as we are she said a word very funny and kids were laughing..She was like why u laughing? cuz i pronounced something funny?? Twas funny..she was like Yiddish is a very nice language…LOL
Kapusta is Hungarian. Uhnshparin is leaning. Ainshpurin is save.
BSD- Can’t tell if you’re serious. TIA is short for ‘thanks in advance’.
A moirehdikker deher
Pinkt fakert
takke azoi
oise geveintlach
a nechtigan tug
in gantsen nisht
fester shtickel
sharfer raid
a hoiker
kupdraynish
One of my rabbeim used to put his head in his hands while teaching us, and say “nochomel”. I, knowing almost no Yiddish, thought for the longest time he was saying “nebach”. I thought he thought we were abysmal students.
I LOVE the word ‘cholpchis’. It means…… CABBAGE!!!
You sure that means cabbage? I always knew it as “croit” ?????
A guy I know received a parking ticket from a traffic officer despite arguing with him to be let off. “You’re a complete shmoiger” he finally tells the officer as he handed him the ticket. “That’s a new one to me” said the officer, “I’m normally called a mamzer”!
The English word for “fargin” is to begrudge
So wonderful, the amazing resources of the coffeeroom has managed to establish a translation for fargin as not to begrudge.
So lets up the level. Who can help me out with a translation of, or equivalant word to, ‘grada’?
????? ??????? ??????? ?’??? ???? ??? ??????
Yiddish words how Google translates them into English:
Egg yesterday = ????? ??????
Empty egg = ?????? ?????
I packed you by the story = ?????? ??? ?? ????
Its doing itself on tables & on benches = ???? ??? ???? ???? ???
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I whistle u on how big you are = ?’???? ???? ??? ??? ????? ?? ????
Its holidays in the weekend = ?’??? ??”? ???????????
I have u in attic = ?’??? ??? ??? ??????
I’m laughing myself out = ?’??? ??? ????
I’m driving on Mondroe = ?’??? ???? ?????
If u want to remember, piggy it over = ???? ?? ????? ??????? ??? ?????
I’m gonna put u over! = ?’???? ??? ??????????
Stop being such an empty walker = ??? ???? ???? ??? ??????????
Ripped off animal = ?????????? ???
Chopping a life = ???? ? ?????
Its me good = ?’??? ???
Its worth a slap in the ground = ????? ? ??? ??? ?? ????
A date and a radish = ? ???? ??? ?????
Its not risen and not flew = ???? ???????? ??? ???? ????????
Talking to the thing = ???? ?? ??? ???
Ur twirled well = ???? ??? ???????
Its turning itself a world = ?’????? ??? ? ?????
LOL shticky! Those are awesome!
Thanx. Good to have you here so often!
shticky- i think the best would be “as an aside”
i thought to save was ratevven?
Cabbage=?????
Stuffed cabbage=????????, ??????? ?????
i like the word tzufloigen. not really sure what it means but it sounds so… yiddish lol
How come “S’vert mir lichtig” and “S’vert mir shvartz far di oigen” means the exact same thing…?
Ibergebliben
One reason that “greeners” were able to pick up English reletively easily (albeit brokenly) is that there is great similarity between English and Yiddish, both being Germanic laguages. Don’t think so? Okay,as an exercise, translate the following sentence into English:
“Mein brudder zogt, effenen de tir und badank em farn fisch.”
Fargin in English is forgo.
Gewaldig (fantabulous)
moi aussi…
You wrote –
“Hak (mir) nisht in tchainik.
Literal translation: Don’t bang in the kettle
Figurative: Gimme a break!”
Your literal translation is right, but the figurative translation is, more accurately, “Don’t bother me” or “Don’t drive me crazy”.
BTW – MY personal favorite is “Azoi”. Not sure how I would translate that.
farfetzed
Yentingyenta I suppose tzufloigen is translated as absent minded
mytake lol there’s others like that but cant think of them right now
Mods, you deleted my Yiddish post “fardrai nisht kein kop”. You don’t know “vie ein und vie aus”.
ken, Thursday i was w/ a friend and she called herself tzufloigen so i asked her what she meant. she described it as a lost mind, spaced, out of whack etc. i just saw ur post no though. Thanx
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