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lyonsden5

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German Translation Needed
« on: August 04, 2009, 04:47:45 AM »
I've been listening to Last.Fm recently while working. It has good music and uses almost no resources as it's playing (unlike WMP). One of my favorite radio stations is the Michael Buble station. I frequently hear songs on that station from a German artist named Roger Cicero.

Mr. Cicero is phenomenal I should add. Almost makes me want to learn German just to know what he's singing about.  :laugh: There is one song that I would like to know what the name of it is. It is called "Frauen regier'n die Welt"

Google translates that as "Women regier'n the world" Babelfish gives me "Mrs. regier' n the world". I'm guessing the "regier' n" is some sort of slang possibly? Or just a word that doesn't translate?

Can one of my German speaking compadres help me out with a translation that makes sense? 
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Re: German Translation Needed
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2009, 04:56:11 AM »
regier'n = regieren = to rule/govern/reign
Frauen regieren die Welt = Women rule the world
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Re: German Translation Needed
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2009, 08:12:01 AM »
As goodguy pointed out, we use the apostroph in much the same way you do - to leave characters out.

So when you don't find it, simply leave the apostroph out and hope that the dictionary will point you to the right word. ;)

http://dict.leo.org/ende?lang=en&lp=ende&search=regiern
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Re: German Translation Needed
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2009, 03:16:57 PM »
Thanks to both of you  :cheers:

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Re: German Translation Needed
« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2010, 05:41:43 AM »
It's not for me and it's certainly NFBSK since it's about the film Bat Pussy.

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Re: German Translation Needed
« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2010, 06:40:06 AM »
It's not for me and it's certainly NFBSK since it's about the film Bat Pussy.

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Re: German Translation Needed
« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2010, 06:53:08 AM »
:thanks: