How is the word 'friend' said in your native country?
By xXSnowFoxXx
@xXSnowFoxXx (458)
Philippines
11 responses
@xXSnowFoxXx (458)
• Philippines
2 Jul 08
Oh, you know the dialects? You're good... Thanks for sharing!
@baebieDARNA30 (788)
• Philippines
29 Jun 08
in Visayan, it's "amigo" just like spanish i think..
in Ilonngo, it's "miga" for girls then "migo" for boys..
@xXSnowFoxXx (458)
• Philippines
30 Jun 08
Oh. So I assume that you're fro the Philippines, too? And, thank you for posting!
@Kofficup (150)
• Philippines
2 Jul 08
I am a translator. Vernacular dictionaries are composite. UP have developed a comprehensive vocabulary that tells us about the root/beginning of the words we use in each day. We translate Rice as Palay(rice as plant itself) Bigas (rice that is dried grain from the rice plant) Kanin (steamed rice or cooked rice grain that is embryoed and peeled). But in English no matter how much different uses or terminologies the Filipino calls it, the rice's purposes for, the word that fits for rice is RICE.
Since Cebuano language is the majority tongue spoken by people from the Visayas and Mindanao, people seemed to have forgotten and confused of the real terms for specific words that are suppose to be used right.
Example: Amigo (Spanish/Portuguese) HIGALA (Cebuano, Sugbuhanon) Ah- Mih - go : borrowed from the Spanish word, Amigo meaning "friend".
Literally, Filipino's Tagalog language is complicated because the influences of how it has been derived from.
@jpso138 (7851)
• Philippines
23 Jul 08
Well I am also from the Philippines but I am from Cebu. Obviously we used the Cebuano dialect. Here we say Amigo for a male friend and amiga for a female friend. From what I pressume you are from Luzon since you are using the Tagalog word for a friend. Best to you!
@xXSnowFoxXx (458)
• Philippines
26 Jul 08
Yep. I'm clearly from Luzon; and NCR to be precise. I've been there in Cebu but I forgot which town. It's a very wonderful destination to go if you want sight-seeing. It's a very nice place and the people there are very friendly. The guitars there are wonderful, too! So, amiga and amigo are used there... Okay, thanks for sharing and have a nice day!
@blandz0416 (99)
• Philippines
8 Jul 08
here is some translation not in my country but from different languages of my friends...
arabic sadeek
dutch vriend
french ami for male and amie for female
germanfreund
@xXSnowFoxXx (458)
• Philippines
8 Jul 08
Oh, you have a large 'variety' of friends. Thanks for sharing!
@xXSnowFoxXx (458)
• Philippines
20 Jul 08
In what country is that language used? Just curious. Thanks for sharing and have a nice day!
@jhake1984 (270)
• Philippines
1 Jul 08
Yeah..It's "kaibigan"..
Pwede ko ba kayo maging kaibigan?
For non-filipino users, how would you translate that in English? :-)
@xXSnowFoxXx (458)
• Philippines
2 Jul 08
Oh, looks like we're in the same country. Thanks for the post!
@leateagee (3667)
• China
30 Jun 08
We have the same..."friend = kaibigan."
In Bicolano, its "amiga--girls"..."amigo--biys".
happy mylotting kabayan! Take care =)
@setroc (853)
• Philippines
5 Jul 08
realy in your country you its kaibigan? im from that country too but we said it diferently, tagalogs, their country, tsk, here in this part of the philippines we say it amigo if you are using it to mean all of your frends, male or female, same word to use if you are refering to male frends, when it comes to female frends its amiga, i know its not realy a filipino word its spanish, i guess our native word for it got replaced and by that spanish word and its now forgotten
@xXSnowFoxXx (458)
• Philippines
6 Jul 08
But I guess it only makes our language a rich one. Most Tagalog words are derived from Spanish, and it makes our language a language full of different cultures. Thanks for sharing! Have a nice day!
@magojordan (3252)
• Philippines
1 Jul 08
In France it's ami or amie if it's a girl
In Spanish it's amigo or amiga
In German it's Freund or Freundin (carfeul with freund though that could also mean boyfriend)
In Japanese it's Tomodachi or tomo for short.
