How to Say "Cheers" in Every Language!
Foreign Language and Culture for Hospitality
This thread is for how to say "cheers" in every language. Post the ones you know and we'll see how far we can get.
Format:
- English: Cheers
- Japanese: kampai (乾杯 -- I think those are the characters)
- Portuguese: saúde
- Turkish: şerefe
I'll just post those few to start -- post more below... :)
- Comments
13 years
Egeszsegedre - Hungarian
Prost - German/Dutch
Skol - Swedish/Danish/Norwegian
Huraas - Esperanto
(all spelled without fancy accents/characters)
13 years
This confused me for a moment, until I realised that, in British English, Cheers has two meanings. I first thought of the other one: It's short for 'cheerio' which means an informal 'goodbye' in the sense of 'auf wiedersehen', 'au revoir'. In the context, I don't think there is ever any confusion!
P.S.: There's yet a third meaning, as in: "He cheers for his team -- hurrah!". And that's where the Esperanto word quoted comes from! hura = hurrah, so hura/i = to cheer, so hura/as = present tense eg 'he cheers' !
From my dictionary, the esperanto for 'Cheers!' is 'Je via sano' (to your health).
13 years
Huraas - Esperanto
Nice -- I didn't know that one, despite drinking a bit at the Esperanto course. (or maybe because of...?) :very_drunk:
13 years
Here in Tunisia its either the Arabic "Saha!" "!صحة"(with an aspirated H, almost like taking a breath) or French Santé!
13 years
in the Philippines (manila & tagalog region), we say "tungga" or "mabuhay" in tossing drinks.
In other regions of the Philippines, there are many dialects to express "cheers".
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