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Soup: After Dark (lemmy.world)

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[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 31 points 2 months ago

Fun fact: same languages (including swedish) have different words for day as in 24h and day as in not night

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

That makes sense to have. Little things like that are the coolest part about learning a new language.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

I wish we could just make a language that combines all the best bits of different languages. Like a modded Esperanto or something

[-] desconectado@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

In Spanish "morning" and "tomorrow" are the same word "mañana"... It can be confusing.

[-] Alxe@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

At some point you learn to cope. "esta mañana", "el día de mañana", "mañana por la mañana"...

[-] Alxe@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Spanish has two: de día roughly "by daytime" and un dia exactly "a day".

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Korean has like four! 날 / 낮 / 하루 / 일

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Wow! What do they mean?

[-] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Day, day, day, and day

/j, I don't actually know what they mean

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

I think you made a mistake. I put it in a translator and the output was: 날 / 일 / 낮 / 하루

Could it be that you mixed up the order? Thanks anyway for trying! I appreciate what you did for me!

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

날 / 일 both mean "day" but the first is native Korean word and second is Sino-Korean (inherited from Chinese). 날 has broader use but 일 is also used for document type stuff like dates and calendars. 일 also means Sun (the sun could also be called 태양 or 해).

낮 is daylight hours, sunrise to sunset.

하루 is a 24 hour day. For example, to say "every day" you'd say 하루마다 and "day-by-day" 하루 하루.

And then there's also 오늘 which means "today."

There's also plenty of words for X days later/ago. 어제 / 그저께 yesterday, day before. 내일 / 내일 모래 tomorrow, day after. I can't remember the three or four count words...

[-] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

So which one is used for soup du jour

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

Asking the real questions

Both google translate and deepl.com translate both the English "soup of the day", the French "soup du jour" and German "Tagessuppe" as "dagens soppa" which is the "not night" day. So it still implies a nattens soppa.

[-] synapse1278@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I would argue that in French "soup du jour" is the correct meaning, as in "today's soup". And it would otherwise be "soup de jour" as in "day soup", which doesn't exist.