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verdome

English translation: swearword

10:12 Jan 17, 2007
Flemish to English translations [Non-PRO]
General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / expresion
Flemish term or phrase: verdome
only word that belgian lady said when i brought her car booked via internet ;). i just want to know if she was happy..
marta swinarska
English translation:swearword
Explanation:
It is very hard to say what she meant, but 'verdomme' (with double 'm'; with one 'm' the word does not exist) is a swearword meaning 'damn(ed)'

We sometimes use it in dialect to emphasise what we are saying, and in that case it can be positive ('verdomme, dat is lekker'); but most of the time, it is negative.

Hope you understand more or less what it means now, but you will have to derive the positive/negative meaning from the context.

Gert
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Gert Vercauteren
Belgium
Local time: 23:40
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4swearword
Gert Vercauteren
4 +1damn it
Björn Houben


  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
damn it


Explanation:
should be 'verdomme'

guess she wasn't :-)

Björn Houben
Belgium
Local time: 23:40
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FlemishFlemish, Native in DutchDutch
PRO pts in category: 8

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agree  Paul Peeraerts
9 mins
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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
swearword


Explanation:
It is very hard to say what she meant, but 'verdomme' (with double 'm'; with one 'm' the word does not exist) is a swearword meaning 'damn(ed)'

We sometimes use it in dialect to emphasise what we are saying, and in that case it can be positive ('verdomme, dat is lekker'); but most of the time, it is negative.

Hope you understand more or less what it means now, but you will have to derive the positive/negative meaning from the context.

Gert

Gert Vercauteren
Belgium
Local time: 23:40
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Paul Peeraerts
5 mins
  -> Bedankt!
agree  Henk Peelen: Probably, it has no meaning at all. Some people like to use a possibility to write something, although not having an idea what to write.
50 mins
  -> Could very well be the case here!
agree  writeaway: same ambivalent meaning in English-something can be damn good or damn bad. and Damn! can express disgust or pleasure. of course the expression means something. we just don't know how she meant it.
1 hr
  -> Exactly!
agree  jarry (X): If that is what the lady said when you bought her car, the chances are she meant: Well, I'll be damned!
7 hrs
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