anyone speak Italian?

shifty_uk · 19 Apr 2007 at 17:38

Or, know of a decent online translator? I've tried a few already(including google translate) but I put the text in, it gives me a translation, then I put the translation in and translate it back to english and it gives me a different translation

I'm trying to find the italian for "wise little king". The translator gives me back "re piccolo saggio", but in English "re piccolo saggio" means "small king test"

Can anyone help?

VonClinkerhofen · 19 Apr 2007 at 17:41

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

shifty_uk · 19 Apr 2007 at 17:43

VonClinkerhofen said:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Tried it, gives the same result

Deiwos · 19 Apr 2007 at 17:44

shifty_uk said:
Or, know of a decent online translator? I've tried a few already(including google translate) but I put the text in, it gives me a translation, then I put the translation in and translate it back to english and it gives me a different translation

I'm trying to find the italian for "wise little king". The translator gives me back "re piccolo saggio", but in English "re piccolo saggio" means "small king test"

Can anyone help?

Not being italian, I can't really comment, but do remember that one word in a foreign language often has multiple translations. If you look, you can clearly see "little" and "small" being translated quite accurately, just not entirely to the word you want.

It made more sense in my head than when I typed that out haha.

Jaap74 · 19 Apr 2007 at 17:44

saggio = sage = wise

surely ??

VonClinkerhofen · 19 Apr 2007 at 17:44

If it's just that phrase you have trouble with then you could spam some italians on MSN or ICQ that have English as a second language

shifty_uk · 19 Apr 2007 at 17:50

Deiwos said:
Not being italian, I can't really comment, but do remember that one word in a foreign language often has multiple translations.

Yep, I was just wanting to see if it was correct.

VonClinkerhofen said:
If it's just that phrase you have trouble with then you could spam some italians on MSN or ICQ that have English as a second language

Don't know any Italians.

Azagoth · 19 Apr 2007 at 18:05

Piccolo Re saggio, at a guess.

Mp4 · 19 Apr 2007 at 18:09

Saggio piccolo re

Wise (Saggio) Little (piccolo) King (re)

Smeg4Brains · 19 Apr 2007 at 18:12

Mp4 said:
Saggio piccolo re

Wise (Saggio) Little (piccolo) King (re)

Or 'Saggio Piccolo Sovrano' Depending how you wish to prounce it.

Mp4 · 19 Apr 2007 at 18:14

Smeg4Brains said:
Or 'Saggio Piccolo Sovrano' Depending how you wish to prounce it.

Yeah or that Sovrano = Ruler

shifty_uk · 19 Apr 2007 at 18:43

Mp4 said:
Saggio piccolo re

Wise (Saggio) Little (piccolo) King (re)

When translating online "Saggio piccolo re" gives me back "Small test king".

Edit:
After looking up these words in an Italian dictionary, they seem to be correct

Would this be the proper way to same them? Saggio piccolo re?

Thanks

Vanilla · 19 Apr 2007 at 18:47

Literal translation would be 'Saggio Piccolo Re' but you wouldn't say it like that in Italian you'd say 'Un Re Piccolo e Saggio'

qwerty · 19 Apr 2007 at 20:02

I speak Italian! You want to say 'wise little king'?

qwerty · 19 Apr 2007 at 20:06

In Italian you can't really string adjectives together so you would say "il re piccolo e saggio".

Kerplunk · 19 Apr 2007 at 20:08

I speaka Italiano! er Mozzarella!

shifty_uk · 19 Apr 2007 at 20:11

qwerty said:
I speak Italian! You want to say 'wise little king'?

I've recently been considering having a small tattoo done, maybe my name or something. Then I remembered reading somewhere that the definition of my name was "wise little king", or "little king". So, I thought that might be quite cool in Italian or something.

Just didn't want to get the translation wrong!

shifty_uk · 19 Apr 2007 at 20:20

qwerty said:
In Italian you can't really string adjectives together so you would say "il re piccolo e saggio".

So, if an Italian read that, he would read "the wise little king" ?

qwerty · 19 Apr 2007 at 20:34

shifty_uk said:
I've recently been considering having a small tattoo done, maybe my name or something. Then I remembered reading somewhere that the definition of my name was "wise little king", or "little king". So, I thought that might be quite cool in Italian or something.

Just didn't want to get the translation wrong!

Oh ****, talk about pressure!!

shifty_uk said:
So, if an Italian read that, he would read "the wise little king" ?

Right. If you just want "the little king" it would be "il piccolo re".
"Il re piccolo e saggio" gives little and wise equal emphasis in the phrase.
"Il piccolo re saggio" means "the wise little king"
"Il re saggio piccolo" means "the little wise king"

Any use?

shifty_uk · 19 Apr 2007 at 21:48

qwerty said:
Right. If you just want "the little king" it would be "il piccolo re".
"Il re piccolo e saggio" gives little and wise equal emphasis in the phrase.
"Il piccolo re saggio" means "the wise little king"
"Il re saggio piccolo" means "the little wise king"

Any use?

That's brilliant, thanks a lot dude