Language Help
By KarenO52
@KarenO52 (2950)
United States
July 26, 2008 11:56am CST
I'm helping take care of an elderly lady who keeps saying "yoy, ishtanem", and "dobrayati". Does anyone know what this means? She has no idea, and doesn't even know what language it is, but thinks it may be Hungarian. I promised I'd help her find out. I couldn't find useful information by googling it, or wikipedia.
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@KarenO52 (2950)
• United States
16 May 09
She passed on in December, just a week after her 80th birthday. She had been very ill for a long time. I think that those things she used to say were just some sort of exclamation, and she had fun saying them, and got a kick out of me saying them too.
@Loen210 (1540)
• United States
17 May 09
Sorry for her passing. Did she ever finf out? I looked up "yoi" spelled like that; seems the most to have come up as a Japanese name or adjective meaning "good, fine, excellent". I have an electronic multi language dictionary too. If Japanese, respelled a bit, it could be, "Yoi ishta neh" meaning something like 'It's good, isn't it?"
Anyway, hope things are well with you.
@Yestheypayme2dothis (7874)
• United States
26 Jul 08
I tried translating the first phrase at all the Hungarian-English translating site. It would not translate. Then I found this woman's myspace page that has it on and she is Hungarian. Here is the link to her page. You could ask her. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=103270494
She could probably tell you what the other word means, too.
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@Yestheypayme2dothis (7874)
• United States
27 Jul 08
I have a feeling it is slang that people use as an expression of joy like rooting for team or like saying...You go girl!!!
