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Christian James Meredith And yay! Now I need to find something... Hmmm...
Romanian:
Vrei să pleci dar nu mă iei.
Romanian:
Vrei să pleci dar nu mă iei.
Arief Wibowo I listened to the song, and I guess the "iei" is an interjection like "yay", so:
Want you to move but don't take account me. Yay!
But I think I misunderstood Camelia Stefan's hint about the "nu mă" because it sounded rather weird.
Want you to move but don't take account me. Yay!
But I think I misunderstood Camelia Stefan's hint about the "nu mă" because it sounded rather weird.
Christian James Meredith The numa numa song bit? I don't think that's so much a hint as its name as the official anthem of Awesomestan (pronounced /æʋesome'stæn/).
Note: There are no interjections in this sentence
Also, if I told you that ă is a reduced vowel in this case, if you know any French, what do you think "mă" is, using a French example of a two letter m- word with a reduced vowel?
Note: There are no interjections in this sentence
Also, if I told you that ă is a reduced vowel in this case, if you know any French, what do you think "mă" is, using a French example of a two letter m- word with a reduced vowel?
Arief Wibowo (I am now putting Dragostea Din Tei in repeat, in case I can pick up more subtle meaning out of it)
Christian James Meredith "Want you to move but don't take account me. Yay!"
note the "2nd person", "motion verb" (they don't specify which one), "acc" = accusative (you don't need to worry around this at all, since you've already got "me", which is accusative of "I").
Also note that there is no first person (I/me) in the first bit of the sentence.
note the "2nd person", "motion verb" (they don't specify which one), "acc" = accusative (you don't need to worry around this at all, since you've already got "me", which is accusative of "I").
Also note that there is no first person (I/me) in the first bit of the sentence.
Christian James Meredith And last hint - if "pleci" is 2nd person (you <something to do with moving>), and ends with -i, then what does that say about vrei and iei?
Arief Wibowo Wait.... Is iei the one that means "take"? (since the -i ending seems to denote verb)
"Want you [pleci] but don't take me"
"Want you [pleci] but don't take me"
Arief Wibowo Now let me enumerate possible verbs related to moving:
move
fly (the official video had them dancing on a flight)
come
go
enter
exit
walk
run
move
fly (the official video had them dancing on a flight)
come
go
enter
exit
walk
run
Christian James Meredith yep but if "pleci" is "you pleci" (note: Romanian drops pronouns and has suffixes often in this case), and -i defines that it is "you" doing the action, then what does that mean for "vrei", which we know means "want"? (same thing for iei too - all 3 verbs do this)
The second part also isn't a command.
The second part also isn't a command.
Christian James Meredith Nice, I'll tidy it up a bit here:
"You want (that) you <pleci>, but you don't take me"
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"You want to <pleci>, but you don't/wont take me"
I think you can probably guess the direction of the movement, and if I say it you'll figure it out too quickly, so, I'll tell you another hint: the infinitive used to be "luva", which conveniently sounds like a certain English word with a different vowel
"You want (that) you <pleci>, but you don't take me"
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"You want to <pleci>, but you don't/wont take me"
I think you can probably guess the direction of the movement, and if I say it you'll figure it out too quickly, so, I'll tell you another hint: the infinitive used to be "luva", which conveniently sounds like a certain English word with a different vowel
Christian James Meredith Nice! Arief wins!
Now "numa numa iei" no longer sounds like some sort of music lingo and just means "not me not me take" a lot
Now "numa numa iei" no longer sounds like some sort of music lingo and just means "not me not me take" a lot
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