Moving to Slovenia

Friday night and I'm staying in.... nevertheless celebrating the weekend with a cool beer and a bit of music: sounds soooo Eurovision!   (I think I spotted a key change...) I'll try and translate the lyrics asap..... but I know that:    Ljubi   --->   love (male person) and srce   ---> heart Rekel je poet da bo, fant, ki je prepeval le o dobrih ljudeh, lepih re?eh. Bil ljubezni je glasnik, nosil sre?o je ljudem in zanje živel, zanje je pel. Ljubi, ljubi, ljubi ljubi vse ljudi, slej ko prej boš ljubljen tudi ti, ljubi, ljubi, ljubi, glej, kako gori tvoje srce. Ljubi, ljubi, ljubi, ogen plameni, slej ko prej zajel bo vse ljudi, ljubi, ljubi, ljubi, glej kako je lep zdaj ta naš svet. Rekel je, vojak da bo, nekdo, ki njegovih pesmi ni razumel, ni jih hotel. On pa bil je le poet, zdaj ga ni vendar njegova pesem živi, pojmo jo vsi. Ljubi, ljubi, ljubi, ljubi vse ljudi, slej ko prej boš ljubljen tudi ti, ljubi, ljubi, lju...

From the clever grammar book: The expression "want to" is be expressed as in other Slavic languages with hoteti + INF, but the habitual sense is conveyed with the construction rad (rada, -i) + finite verb " like to"  rad jem            --->     I like eating rad govorim    --->     I like to talk (talking) te imam rad     --->     I like you      -->  Mistake!      CORRECTION thanks to anonymous: never start with te imam te rad     ---->     I like you  often it is followed by the conditional:  rad bi govoril s tabo  (instumental)    --->    I like to talk to you (I would like to talk to you)  Rad bi šel na   Ptuj (lokative)                --->     I would like to go to Ptuj   (Gern würde gehen)   ...

A bit of accusative (pronouns in singular: me, te, ga, jo, ga) and anatomy on the menu today. kaj je narobe?            --->        What's wrong? Slabo mi je                --->         I feel sick    (schlecht mir ist)      Dative Boli me uho             --->     my ear aches   Accusative or: Uho me boli Zelo me boli X         --->     my X hurts(aches) much Glava me boli          --->      my head aches (  vergleiche deutscher Akkusativ: der Kopf plagt   mich ) Zob te boli             --->       your tooth aches Želodec me boli       --->     my stomach aches Grlo ga boli         ...

imeti kaj    --->    to have something (possess) imeti  (to have) sing 1. imam 2. imaš 3. ima dual 1. imava 2. imata 3. imata plural 1. imamo 2. imate 3. imajo imam avto   --->    I have a car ima X let     --->    he/she/it is (has) X years old imam počitnice  --->  to be on holiday  (Ferien haben) .

EJ, HEJ HEY, HEY Ej, hej: dežuje na sive ljubljanske hiše, Da se zagrinjajo v sivo zaveso pred soncem. Hey, hey: it's raining on the grey houses of Ljubljana, and they curtain themselves in grey against the sun. V Trstu nam požigajo Edinost. They are burning down our Edinost in Trieste. Krist je prisel v Društvo narodov. Christ went to the League of Nations. Ne, to ni tisti dobri, tisti lepi, z glorijo ljubezni obzarjeni. No, not the good and handsome one glowing in a halo of love. Psevdokrist je v Ženevi. There is a Pseudochrist in Geneva. Kako, ali tudi v Ženevi dežuje? You say it's raining in Geneva, too? Krist je prisel med rjave puntarje, tam na sivi ulici stoji in izganja pismarje in farizeje. Christ went among the brown rebels, there he stands in the grey street banishing scribes and ...

The concept “to like something (to fancy something)” requires the construction of: biti + všeč where the experiencer is assigned the dative and the admired object the nominative case. Tip: if translated with the German:   X ist mir lieb ( X is dear to me ), the cases make perfect sense.  Mačka mi je všeč → Die Katze ist mir lieb (die Katze mir ist lieb), I like the cat Slika mi je  všeč  →  I like the picture, (das Bild ist mir lieb, )  Gorazd (ti) si mi všeč → Gorazd (Du) bist mir lieb   kikiriki mi je všeč  →   I like peanuts PS: Kikiriki, so far the funniest word I've come across. Beats even the French cacahuète .