One of my friends is doing a project for our video production class about diversity amongst cultures. In the piece, she wants to have the phrase "Open your eyes" stated/written a number of times in a variety of languages. I offered my assistance in finding some answers for her.

Long and the short of it, my question is how do you say "Open your eyes" in your language (and how would it be pronounced phonetically)?

Thanks for the assistance!!!

Im from Germanys so does this still counts?

"Öffnen Sie Ihre Augen"

Our country has a lot of dialects aside from our National language.

In Tagalog, our national language, it's:
"Buksan mo ang iyong mga mata."

In Cebuano, the dialect of my area, it's:
"Ablihi (or Bukha) ang imong mga mata."

Hope this helps.

Angela

Afrikaans:

"Maak oop jou oë"

Phonetically: "Mah-c ooh-p yo ooh-e"

Hello my friend,

In Greece, we say:

" 'Ανοιξε τα μάτια σου"

Phonetically: A - ni - kse ta ma-tia sou

Cheers from Greece,

Nick

in Turkish: Gozlerini ac [note that there will be 2 dots over o (ö) and a tail below c (ç)]... please PM if i can help more.
Best regards

In Dutch/Flemisch

"Open je ogen"

In Spanish - 'Abrir tus ojos' - that's Spanish, Spanish. In South-American Spanish it would be more formal:
'Abrir SUS ojos' ..Jim

In France we would say "Ouvrez vos yeux ". But I'm unable to give you a phonetic transcription

Frenchy

In Romanian; "casca-ti ochii!"

In Polish: otwórz oczy
Have no idea how it could be phoneticaly Maybe something like: otvoorz oczy, 'rz' sounds like 'ge' in word garage

Cheers,
Piotr

OO-vri (r is rolled and the"I" has the same sound as the "I" in "it"

Vo (with the sound of "oo" in "wool" the "S" is carried to the next word

Zey ou (with the sound of "ou" in "journal"

In Redneck, it would be "Y'all lookee heyah!"

In mandarin, its : Zhen kai ni de yan jing

Dari/Farsi
Cheshem Waz-konen

Russian : открой глаза (a-tkroy glaza)

In Californian it's:
"Open yer freek'n eyes...dude"

Couldn't resist,
Cheers
C.

In the East end of London its keep yer mincers peeled.

In South Western Scotland it would be Gonny open yer Eyes ya &**$$^%^ (expletive of choice)

In Denmark it is "Åben dine øjne"

In Swedish I think it's "Öpna dina ögon"

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! :-) :-) :-) :-)

I was imagining this and said it in the Scottish accent. It was so funny that I fell off my chair.

Let me fix myself for a while. :-) :-) :-)

Angela

In Bahasa Malaysia = bukalah mata mu
and in most of the times, we will say, "buka mata engkau"

What... no Gaelic? hehe

Nice topic.

Jim

In southern

Y'all Open yer eyeballs :-)

Well and in Portuguese:

"Abre os teus olhos" or simply "Abre os olhos"

and it is spelled more or less like this:
Abre - A (á like in Alaska) + bre
os - uus
teus - tehuus
olhos - ollos (the double L or LH like in the spanish calle)

Hope this helps

Skipper

This is indeed a nice topic... Now I`m even able to tell the foreign people I work with how they have to open their eyes. You`ll never know when that will be usefull.

Ok I have another pair since Ronny already gave the Dutch way of saying open your eyes which is Open je Ogen. I have some in Dutch Dialects of which I am now imagining it would be extremely funny to hear them out of the mouth of people that don`t speak Dutch.
Ok Here goes

Doe die oogkleppen weg!!!
Luiken open!!!!
Ut worre nou toch toid da`je goa koiken!!!

I`m not really sure if even the rest of Holland is able to speak that last one :-) :-)