Posts: 43 Joined: 27 Feb 04
From: College Park, GA
Basic armenian phrases
Barev! Inch anun's tisha e (hello! my name is tisha). Inchbes ek (how are you [pl.])?
There are two types of languages to learn in armenian Eastern and Western. Western is like Lebanese armenian and Eastern is like armenian armenian ( from armenia). They differ from pronunciation and all that. Sometimes the words are different. Think about american dialects or spanish. I will give some of the basics in Eastern armenian.
Here are the basics:
Hello-Barev (Informal)
Hello-barev dzez (formal)
What's up-inch ka chga
how are you- inchbes es [sing.]
how are you-inchbes ek [pl.]
very well, thank you-shat lav, sh'norhakal em
Good morning-bari luis
good evening-bari yereko
goodbye-ts'tesutyun
good night-bari gisher
good night (response)-luis bari (response)
please-kh'ntrem
thank you-sh'norhakal em
you're welcome-charzhe
pardon/excuse me-k' nerek
congratulations-sh'norhavor lini
cheers-kenats't
what is your name?-anun't inch e?
my name is ...-anun's ... e
where are you from?-vorteghits es?
do you speak ...?-khosum es ...?
i speak ...-khosumem ...
i understand-haskanum em
i don't understand-chem haskanum
what does this mean?-inch e sa n'shanakum?
i want an interpreter-tarkmanich em uzum
i like ...-sirum em
i don't like ...-chem sirum
yes-ayo (informal)/ha (formal)
no-voch
no problem-problem chika
i am sick-hivand em
do you have ... ?-unek ... ?
The verb to have:
i have- unum em/unem
you have-unum es/unes
he/she/it has-unum e/une
we have-unum enk/unenk
you have-unum ek/unek
they have-unum en/unen
iam- yes em
u are-du es
he/she/it is-na e
we are-menk enk
you are-duk ek
they are-nrank,irents en
i love-sirum em
you love-sirum es
he/she loves-sirum e
we love- sirum enk
you love-sirum ek
they love-sirum en
ex. I love you-yes sirum em kez/yes kez sirum em (in eastern armenian)
in western its yes k'sirem kezi
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Posts: 1364 Joined: 6 Sep 04
From: Melbourne, Victoria
Thank you Pyros_amante
I never had the chance to see armenian words written for the phrases I use with our Armenian community in Hollywood.
I am exposed more to Western Armenian, being that everyone seems to be Lebanese-Armenians in my area.
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I am comming from already having heard the language but it seems to be pronounced very closely to how it is spelled.
But just for an example:
If I were to spell this phrase
What's up-inch ka chga
using an American-English ear I would have guessed based upon how I hear it said that it would been spelled
inch ga chiga
So its rather close. Of course, with Lebanese Armenian's we switch between Arabic, Armenian, and French quite a bit due in part to the history of Lebanon itself as a country.
Enjoy the language, without a direct relation you should find it shares closest similarity with Greek, although it has a lot of borrowed words from Persian.
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i thought in western you said barev and in eastern you said parev thats how i was tought. but i could be wrong. also when u say i dont know its chem kedem or chem kedes?
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