Onomatopoeias: Lithuanian vs. English

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Lithuania Explained

Lithuania Explained

Жыл бұрын

In today’s video I wanted to look at the entertaining world of Lithuanian onomatopoeias. If you’re younger and aren’t familiar with this word, then, well, an onomatopoeia is defined as a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.
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@norbertasc9126
@norbertasc9126 Жыл бұрын
Ms. lithuania explained has a nice voice tho
@kristinyt
@kristinyt Жыл бұрын
Lithuanians love their onomatopoeias :D While listening to English version I was already thinking what Lithuanian could be and your wife almost always surprised me. Of course, I believe that this is a regional thing and your wife said what she is familiar with. For example, „Din dilin“ for me is associated only with the literal bell (like christmas decoration or church bells). For a door bell I would say "dzin" or 'dzin dzilin". Also "dzir" in my region (highlands) is for when you use a saw and cut some wood - then your saw makes a sound "dzir". For horse I'd say „yhaha“, but „igaga“ sounds similar even though I've never saw someone writing it like this. Pigs, I suppose, should say „kvy kvy“. It's just a different sound that they make and English "oink" is what I translate "kvy" to. Although I don't know any other pig sounds in English. So maybe we have 2 different sounds (kvy and kriu) while in English there is only one? The same with ducks - "kva kva" was my guess, but "kre kre" is also popular. Fun fact - in Lithuanian language you can make a word of a sound up if you want. For example, if you open a door and it makes noise, you simply use a sound that you hear and turn it into a verb that is how girgžt, slyst, virst can become girgždėti, slystelėti, virstelti. Those are pretty standart words, BUT the fun part is that you can totally make the words up and they will be grammatically correct, like if you say you hear "grunkt", you can make a verb "grunktelėti". You won't find it in any vocabulary (I hope, lol) but this word is 100 % legit. As a linguistic student I find this amazing. Me and my fellow students used to make words up in the exams (while writing essays) and the professors had to accept our answers as long as we can proof that we made that verb from an onomatopoeia.
@Tar1ff
@Tar1ff Жыл бұрын
Cool, this is the first video on Lithuanian onomatopoeias I ever seen, well done!
@raistherais
@raistherais Жыл бұрын
Mrs. Lithuania Explained's voice is so cute
@travelvideos
@travelvideos Жыл бұрын
In other languages, Japanese is very rich in onomatopoeias. Especially to describe rain intensity, because it can rain a lot! In Chinese, onomatopoeia 滴滴 didi (sound of car horn) is the name of transportation company Didi Taxi.
@pineappleproductions1696
@pineappleproductions1696 Жыл бұрын
One Anomatopea you missed is sound that a crow makes, I don't know what's the English sound for it but in Lithuanian it's "Kar kar"
@LithuaniaExplained
@LithuaniaExplained Жыл бұрын
I think it’s “caw caw” in English
@Stiflex
@Stiflex Жыл бұрын
@@LithuaniaExplained Recently found out that three crows is called a murder of crows. Perhaps would be an interesting topic for a video on the Lithuanian version of this.
@miyani6
@miyani6 Жыл бұрын
Your wife's voice is so cute kajskafk
@seanshepard2000
@seanshepard2000 Жыл бұрын
wow - I love at 3:08, Kernave! Very cool place! ... lots of hills :)
@vaidotast
@vaidotast Жыл бұрын
So cute! I giggled watching this :) but you missed the most important question: ką sako drambliukas?
@xEroxSennin
@xEroxSennin Жыл бұрын
what does a fox say
@proxboxgamer69
@proxboxgamer69 Жыл бұрын
Tu debilas :trolle:
@hkrohn
@hkrohn Жыл бұрын
One of the most interesting ones in Norwegian I think is the sound pigs make: nøff nøff! It's pronounced like the number 9 in French ("neuf").
@LithuaniaExplained
@LithuaniaExplained Жыл бұрын
😆 🐷
@Monte80
@Monte80 Жыл бұрын
Still learning how to say ono..., onomato...
@LithuaniaExplained
@LithuaniaExplained Жыл бұрын
Maybe it’s easier to say it in Lithuanian? 😂🙃
@beandrag9019
@beandrag9019 Жыл бұрын
As monika liu said: tuk tuk 💖🇱🇹
@sikoyakoy2376
@sikoyakoy2376 Жыл бұрын
I’m actually at the level (high-intermediate) of Lithuanian where I need onomatopoeia to fill in my knowledge to make my speech more interesting :) I wonder if you could make another video of any other onomatopoeias you missed here.
@xEroxSennin
@xEroxSennin Жыл бұрын
A lot of people in the comments suddenly use this onomatopoeias thingy huh. Well, I will be first to say - had no idea of this words existence. More of onomo...whatever: slap-pliaukšt, oink-kvy (kriu is more like a snork), nebeprisikiškiakopūsteliaudamasis-dumb lithuanian noises.
@JH-pv6rd
@JH-pv6rd Жыл бұрын
Kriu is definitely more commonly used when kvy.
@kristinyt
@kristinyt Жыл бұрын
@@JH-pv6rd yeah, "kriu" is more common but it is not "oink". "Oink" is "kvy", and "kriu" in English?.. I do not know this one but it is a different sound than "oink".
@xcbiker2
@xcbiker2 Жыл бұрын
In Portuguese, coins is moedas and in Lithuanian coins is monetų You in Portuguese is Tu and in Lithuanian is also Tu
@SirAdamUK
@SirAdamUK Жыл бұрын
Great little video 🙂 I'm sure you both had fun with this; stifled laughter with 'tuk tuk' 🤭
@LithuaniaExplained
@LithuaniaExplained Жыл бұрын
Thanks! Yes it was a fun one to make!
@Catapillah
@Catapillah Жыл бұрын
What does the fox say in Lithuanian? ;)
@LithuaniaExplained
@LithuaniaExplained Жыл бұрын
No idea- what? 🦊
@Catapillah
@Catapillah Жыл бұрын
@@LithuaniaExplained Nooooooo idea :)) That was a reference to a song by a Norwegian band that went viral almost a decade ago :)))
@LithuaniaExplained
@LithuaniaExplained Жыл бұрын
@@Catapillah 😆 ok, that went totally over my head! :D I've never heard of the song unfortunately!
@Catapillah
@Catapillah Жыл бұрын
@@LithuaniaExplained Yeah, that was never gonna land successfully :D I've just checked them, over a billion views already lol
@gabija2401
@gabija2401 Жыл бұрын
nesuprato a ne? 😂
@ALIXZW
@ALIXZW Жыл бұрын
Thank you for the video clip
@matikramer9648
@matikramer9648 2 ай бұрын
Very funny and fun topic Thanks
@littlejimmy5060
@littlejimmy5060 Жыл бұрын
similar to slavic languages like slovak
@fidenemini111
@fidenemini111 Жыл бұрын
I think many of them are influenced by Russian, so no wonder.
@littlejimmy5060
@littlejimmy5060 Жыл бұрын
@@fidenemini111 its not like they are influenced by russian. Its just that they stem from the same root of languages which is slavic. Whenever I speak slovak people think it's russian and I don't blame them russian is the largest slavic language.
@thenormalgamer7944
@thenormalgamer7944 Жыл бұрын
bro made up a new word
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