Apr. 13th, 2009 09:12 pm
WotD: sweeten
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Now here's a puzzle I can actually solve! I'm forever running out of words whenever I speak a foreign language (including English, now that I think about it). So I have to improvise. Sometimes this involves modifying a word from a closely-related language and hoping for the best. (Results have been decidedly mixed.) Other times, deriving one on the spot using the native resources of the language. (Also dodgy.)
For instance, planning a chat in Spanish today, I realised I didn't know the proper word for "sweetened", so I assembled one based on the word for "sugar". To test myself, I decided to do this in my other languages as well. Below you have what I came up and, behind a cut so you all can test yourselves as well, the correct term(s).
For instance, planning a chat in Spanish today, I realised I didn't know the proper word for "sweetened", so I assembled one based on the word for "sugar". To test myself, I decided to do this in my other languages as well. Below you have what I came up and, behind a cut so you all can test yourselves as well, the correct term(s).
- versüßen (figurative; in the literal sense, only süßen)
- verzoeten (ver)zoeten (same as above)
- azucarar (in the narrower meaning of "to sugar"; general term endulzar)
- sucrar endolcir, edulcorar, ensucrar (in the sense of "to sugar")
- sucrer [idem], édulcorer
- siwcrio melysu, siwgro
- milsigh [idem]
- 다기다 달게 하다
- 甜化 tiánhuà 變甜 biàntián (but 甜化 attested online)
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