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"Vacuum Cleaner" in other languages |
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Post# 117269   12/6/2010 at 13:13 (4,888 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)   |   | |
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Over the years, I have come to learn the translations of "vacuum cleaner" in other languages in order to find more entries on eBay, or to find more clips on YouTube. Because of the North American Free Trade Agreement, most of us in Canada, the U.S.A. and Mexico know "vacuum cleaner" in English, French and Spanish because all the boxes, instruction manuals and disposable bag packages show all three languages. Here is what I have learnt so far:
French = aspirateur (knew this as a young kid growing up in Montreal) Spanish = aspiradora German = staubsauger Swedish = dammsugare Hebrew = sho'ev avak Hungarian = porsivo Jump right into this thread if you have any other translations to share with the gang! |
Post# 117272 , Reply# 1   12/6/2010 at 14:35 (4,888 days old) by Turbo500 (West Yorkshire, UK)   |   | |
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Post# 117275 , Reply# 2   12/6/2010 at 14:48 (4,888 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 117613 , Reply# 3   12/9/2010 at 12:02 (4,885 days old) by collector2 (Moose Jaw, Sk)   |   | |
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Post# 117621 , Reply# 4   12/9/2010 at 13:15 (4,885 days old) by kirbylux77 (London, Ontario, Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 117637 , Reply# 6   12/9/2010 at 14:59 (4,885 days old) by portable (Corvallis, OR)   |   | |
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Wow, Joe, that was quite a lesson. I had German friends in the 70's who laughed at my collection and said that Germans would NEVER collect vacuum cleaners (though they never explained WHY)....
Italian: (noun) aspirazione (but it might me a vacuum, as in a void); there's also vuoto Anybody out there speak Italian? Tommy?? |
Post# 117852 , Reply# 9   12/11/2010 at 23:23 (4,883 days old) by szymonrules (Philadelphia, PA )   |   | |
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Post# 117896 , Reply# 10   12/12/2010 at 15:45 (4,882 days old) by HenryDreyfuss (Ohio)   |   | |
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Post# 117898 , Reply# 11   12/12/2010 at 15:58 (4,882 days old) by HenryDreyfuss (Ohio)   |   | |
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In mandarin Chinese, vacuum cleaner is pronounced "zhenkong xichenqi."
spelled phonetically it comes out to "jen-kong shi-chen-chee." But make sure your tones are correct or you may say something completely different! "Zhege Zhongguo zhenkong xichenqi shi mamahuhu." This Chinese vacuum cleaner is so-so. |
Post# 117903 , Reply# 12   12/12/2010 at 18:06 (4,882 days old) by eurekaprince (Montreal, Canada)   |   | |
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Love the Japanese version...denkisojiki!!!! Gotta use that one of these days...."I need some dust bags for my Hoover denkisojiki!!!!!
The Danish Nilfisk website uses the word "stovsugere".... The Philips website teaches us how to write the word in Dutch: stofzuiger! see link below... Now we need Greek, Russian and some other languages like Portuguese and Tagalag..... CLICK HERE TO GO TO eurekaprince's LINK |