This was a joke! / Cétait une blague

[foryoureyesonly]

In Hindi, there are two ways of saying it:

yé to ék chootkoola tha

yé to ék husun tha
(the 'hu' in husun is actually midway between 'hu' and 'ha')

[Guest]

Latvian: Tas bijis joks

Hi PLeXuZ,

Thanks a lot! Do you know anything about the pronunciation?

Yes. It is basically read what you see.

T like T in TOM
A like U in BUS
S like S in BUS

BI like BE
J like Y in YES
I like E in BE
S like S in BUS

J like Y in YES
O is a diphthong UO, like in Latin word QUO but with shorter U. If difficult, can be pronounced as a simple O.
K like K in JOKE
S like S in BUS

[Pontus]

Finnish: Se oli vitsi!
North Sámi: Dat lei viske!

Polish: To był żart!

Swedish: Det var ett spöke!
Norwegian: Det var en spøk!
Danish: Det var en spøg!

Hei Didine!

Wow, thanks a lot for all the phrases! Do you speak Sámi!?? I always thought it was a language very closely related to Finnish, but that phrase looks more Germanic (to my mind... )

Concerning that Swedish phrase.... Isn't spöke just used in the meaning of ghost in Swedish in contrast to the Danish and Norwegian way of use? In Swedish I'd say Det var ett skämt (eller är jag ute och cyklar??? )

Terveisin

I asked my boyfriend about the Swedish phrase - he's Finnish, and all the Finns learn Swedish at school. He confirmed that "Det var ett spöke" is correct. However, finlandssvenska differs in some points from rikssvenska, so this could be the case here...

Perhaps it's this finlandsvenska that's messing things up, but I didn't know that spöke could be used as joke, even in finlandsvenska. In deed spöke means ghost in Swedish. The Norwegian and Danish way of using spøk/spøg seems right though.

[didine]

Couldn't tell you, I don't know much about finlandssvenska myself... But several Finns told me it does mean joke. I have a finlandssvensk friend in Helsinki, I'll have to ask him.

[Guest]

io sono triste , come avete dimenticato la traduzione araba ?

i am unhappy , how did you forgot the arabic translation ?

i think also i have not seen the german one


in arabic : لقد كانت مزحة ( lakad kanat mozha )
or

انها نكته ( innha nokta )

[j u d i t h]

io sono triste , come avete dimenticato la traduzione araba ?

i am unhappy , how did you forgot the arabic translation ?

i think also i have not seen the german one


in arabic : لقد كانت مزحة ( lakad kanat mozha )
or

انها نكته ( innha nokta )

Thanks for this Arabic translation!
I think there's no German translation because everybody supposes I speak German as I'm living in Germany - and they're right!

Anyway - here's the German version:

Das war ein Witz!

[Gilen]

In Basque : txantxa izan zen

In Vietnamese : là câu nói đùa

In Hebrew : זאות בדיחה (zot bedih'a)

[Nephilim]

czech = to byl žert
slovak = to bol žart
romanian = iera / a fost o glumã

need the pronounciation too?

[Cãlin]

Romanian: Era o glumă. / A fost o glumă.
or: Era în glumă. / A fost în glumă.

Beside what Didine wrote, you can also say in Swedish:
"Det var på skoj". This is more like the Romanian "Era în glumă".

[leelou]

romany pheras avilo (ph is pronounced p-h, you say the 2 letters separated)

[grzespelc]

Silesian: To był wic

[vallisoletano]

le sujet déterré de nulle part

en portugais:

si c'est dans le sens "je racontais une blague"
=> era uma piada

si c'est dans le sens "c'était pour rire" (passé + ou - lointain, ms pas l'instant qui vient de s'écouler)
=> era uma brincadeira

si c'est dans le sens "c'est bon, je rigole"
=> estou a gozar / tou a gozar
=> estou na brincadeira / tou na brincadeira

[hayat]

en berbere c'est:ghir atssarr

[Guest]

Et voila le Turc ... here is the turkish version. Hier kommt der Türkisch

Şaka oldu

pron : chaka oldou (FR) shaakaa oldu (EN) schaka oldu (DE)