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From the most widely spoken language in the world (Mandarin, Chinese), to the little-known Galego spoken in Galicia, Spain, the following list covers how to say “one more beer please” in 50 different languages.
Try your hand at finding the most sensual-sounding language; this will come in handy when you’re chatting up that gorgeous local! Personally, Latin does it for me.
UPDATE: When this list was first published, readers pointed out enough bad grammar and translation mistakes to keep the State Department busy for a week. Thanks everyone, for chipping in and helping us refine this list! We won’t rest until it’s right, so keep the comments coming.
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| Language | Spelling | Phonetic Pronunciation |
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| Afrikaans | een bier asseblief | een beer assehbleef |
| Albanian | një më birrë kënaq | ne me bi-re kenuk |
| Arabic | Ahad jadid bira min fadlik | Adad jadid bira min fadleck |
| Asturian | ún bias setbeso pias | oon bi-es setbes-so pi-as |
| Bavarian | oans bia gäh san s so guad | o-ans bi-a gah san s-so guad |
| Bosnian | neki ve’ce pivo molim | necke ve-ce piv-o molim |
| Brazilian Portuguese | mais um cerveja por favor | ma-is um cerv-eja per favour |
| Catalan | un més cervesa plau | un me-es cervasa pla-u |
| Chamorro | unu me setbesa | una me setbas-a |
| Chinese | yī gèng pí qí | yi geng pee quee |
| Croatian | neki više pivo ugoditi | nekia vis-e pivo ugoditi |
| Czech | jeden více pivo být příjemný | keden vice pivo bit pre-jem-ni |
| Danish | nok en bajer behage | nok en bajar be-hage |
| Dutch | Eén Bier alsjeblieft! | een beer allshebleeft |
| English | One more beer please | another beer (scooner, pint) please mate |
| Estonian | üks aeglasemalt | ooks eg-lasem-alt |
| Filipino | isa laling marami serbesa masiyahan | isa laling mara-me ser-basa masy-ahan |
| Finnish | Vielä yksi olut | Viela yksi olut |
| French | Une autre biere s’il-vous-plait | Oon o – tra bee yehr see voo play |
| Galego | Un Máis Cervexa | oon maiz cerva-xa |
| German | Noch ein Bier, bitte | noch ein beer, bitte |
| Greek | boro na echo ena beera separakalo | boro na echo en-a beer-a sapa-rakalo |
| Hebrew | ihun uteh nihaiu stihein ana | i-un uttuh ni-haiu sti-hin ana |
| Hindi | eka adhika biyara chahana | eka ad-hicka biara cha-anna |
| Hungarian | kerek szepen megegy sort | ker-ak serpan meggy sort |
| Icelandic | einn fleiri bjór þóknast | inn fl-erri jorr pok-nastt |
| Indonesian | Satu lagi Bir Makasih | satoo lagi beer mack-asi |
| Italian | Una nuova birra per favore | -oona noo-ovah birrah pehr fahv-oh-ray |
| Japanese | mou hitotsu no beeru onegai shimass | mou hit-o-su no bee-ruh ohn-ehgai shim-uss |
| Latin | unus magis beer commodo | unas magis beer comm-odo |
| Latin American Spanish | una cerveza más, por favor | una cerveza mas, por favor |
| Lithuanian | vienas daugiau alus dėkui | vi-enas da-gi-u aloos de-ku |
| Malay | satu lagi senang | satu le-gi se-nang |
| Mongolian | dahiaad neg shar airag | dah-iad neg shar ar-ag |
| Norwegian | nok en øl | nok en ol |
| Polish | po proszę jeszcze jeden piwo | po proh-sheh yesh-teh ye-den pee-vo |
| Portuguese | Mais uma cerveja, por favor | Mais uma cerveja, por favor |
| Romanian | Încă o bere, vă rog” | “Inkha o behre vah rogh |
| Russian | одно больше пива пожалуйста | Ad-na bol shou peeva pajaloosta |
| Serbian | pojedinac briny pivo ugoditi | po-jed-inac brin-y pivo ugo-dite |
| Slovenian | nedoločni zaimek več pivo prosim | ned-olo-ski zeim-ek veck pivo prosinm |
| Somali | kow biirka fadlan | no beerka fadlan |
| Spanish | Dame otra cerveza, por favor. | da-meh ot-rah cervesa por favor |
| Swedish | en mer öl, tack | en mer oll, tack |
| Thai | nèung yîng bia sòt gà-róo-naa | ne-ung ying bea soot gaa-roo-naa |
| Turkish | Bir bira daha lutfen | bir bira daha lutfen |
| Vietnamese | một nhiều hơn rượu cồn mong ông | moot nie hon rouu con mong oong |
| Welsh | hun hychwaneg bîr blesio | hun hish-wa-neg beer bles-io |
| Yoruba | Jõ, fún mi lôtí kan si | jo, fun mi lo-ti kan si | Zulu | nye ningi utshwala | nee nin-gi ut-sch-wala |
So now that you have circled the world, ordered numerous beers, converted countless currencies, and urinated often, you may rest in a satisfied but sober manner!
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The Danish one should really be "En øl til, tak" (een oel til, tack). If you say behage, they'll think you're stuck in some kind of odd 1950's time-warp.
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in polish should be "poproszę jeszcze jedno piwo" I don't know whats about pronunciation, because I'm from poland;)
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this is sooo funny XD the croatian one is totally wrong; the thing they wrote means something like: "some will please more beer" and it sounds a bit retarded. you should say "daj još jednu žuju"; žuja being the best croatian beer.
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the filipino one should go: isang beer pa po.
(eeh-sang beer pah po)
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I could summarize all the comments with just small sentence: All phrases are wrong!
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the hindi translation is terrible! theres no word called 'chahana' the correct translation would be – "ek aur beer chahiye" lol
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Lithuanian "vienas daugiau alus dėkui" hurts my eyes, it's so weird. Dar vieną alaus, prašom would be more appropriate. [Dar viena alous, prashom]. Dėkui is thank you, prashom is please.
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The Russian one is incorrect (no wonder though)> еще пива, пожалуйста [esche piva, pajaloosta]. Looks like the only correct variant is the English one, the rest is translated via google translator or something of that kind.
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The one in Filipino didn’t even make sense.
a rough translation of “isa laling marami serbesa masiyahan” would be:
“one many beer to be happy”
You should say “Isa pa nga pong beer” or “Isang beer pa po”
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If you`ve had to many beers, you can say in French I am drunk:
Feminine: Je suis soulle (Jey swee sool)
Masculine: ????Sorry! I don’t know the masculine version.
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haha, not good…. in estonia “üks aeglasemalt” means “one slowly” Right is: ÜKS ÕLU PALUN -one beer, please!
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The slovenian translation should be: ”Še eno pivo prosim.” (She eno peevo, proseem). In this way, e is pronounced as in ‘best’ and o as in ‘more’.
”nedoločni zaimek več pivo prosim”, which is wrong, would be ”infinitive pronoun more beer, please” in english. And you don’t want to say that.
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really, what else do you need to say?!
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Wow, this is horrifyingly wrong translations..
Danish = En øl til, tak.
Bajer is a sloppy kind of slang. You would never say Behage or Nok. 1950’s timewarp seems appropiate indeed.
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In italian is:
“Un’altra birra per favore”
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In Swedish one says “En öl till, tack” or “En till öl, tack”.
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i love my language look how it is pronounced
bir bira daha lutfen=bir bira daha lutfenslovene is also read almost like its written as far as i know
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Hi !
Thank you for the post. I would like to bring correction to say “one more beer” In russian – it will like that:
Еще одно пиво – eshe odno pivo
Alexey
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Mmm.. Both “spanish” translations should be -Una cerveza más, por favor-
There’s no difference between what you called “Latin American Spanish” and Spanish.. but the Slang =]
So.. the phrases should be the same.. (the one you used in -Spanish is like an interpretation of the phrase on english)↵ -
Hebrew doenst make any sense… it should be – “od bira, bevakasha”.
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the estonian is absolutely incorrect!
“üks aeglasemalt” means “one slower” – what the hell is that, where did you take this sentence?The correct phrase should be:
Spelling “Üks õlu veel, plaun”
Phonetic Pronunciation “Ooks ur-loo vehl, pah-lun”↵ -
spelling mistake:
Spelling “Üks õlu veel, palun”
http://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab=wT#et|en|%C3%9Cks%20%C3%B5lu%20veel%2C%20palun
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I wqas going to write Hindi is all wrong but jay beat me to it by more than a year!
So many wrongs? Maybe this whole piece needs to be re-done! Seems to me an online translator was used; they give up hilarious tarnslations!
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