As you may recall, I used to collect ways to say two beers. Over the
course of nanowrimo I asked other writers to submit ways in their languages.
Here is the result:
French – deux bières
Spanish – dos cervezas
Polish – dwa piwa
Czech – dve piva
Romanian – doua bere
Afrikaans – Twee Biere
Redneck: Cheap date!
German: Zwei Bier
Italian: Due birre
Russian: dva piva
Serbian: dva piva
Malay – “Dua bir”, or “dua gelas bir” although that’s rather clunky.
Mandarin Chinese: Liang ping pijiu (“lee-yang ping pee-jee-you”)
Danish – to øl
Swedish – Två öl
Latin: Duo cerevisiae
Finnish: Kaksi olutta
Portuguese: dois cervejas
Pig Latin: ootay eersbay
Canadian: 1/12th of a two-four.
Dutch: Twee bier
Flemish: Twee pintjes
Irish: Dha Beoir
Japanese: Ni-hai biiru
Esperanto: du bier
Swahili: pombe mbili
Turkish: Iki bira (ee-kee bee-rah)
Just thought you might want to know.
You got russian written in the Czech Spot. Czech is “dve piva.” Pozor!
Serbian: dva piva (like the russian, but not the Czech)
Marianna points out that it’s written in azbuca (russian) and cirilica (serbian), i don’t know how to make the keyboard do that.
Updated based on previous comment. I’ll have to figure out the weird alphabets later.
Turkish: Iki bira (ee-kee bee-rah)
I’ve printed this out, and stuck it inside the ol’ passport! Not scared to leave the house now!