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swewende, swerwende musiek


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08:31 Jul 29, 2009
Afrikaans to English translations [Non-PRO]
Music
Afrikaans term or phrase: swewende, swerwende musiek
swewende, swerwende musiek
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1floating, meandering music
anitadp
5gliding, wandering music
Samuel Murray
5Spiritual, Music of a nomadic (gypsy) natureMckellar
4soaring, wandering musiclexispro


  

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gliding, wandering music


Explanation:
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Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 22:55
Native speaker of: Native in AfrikaansAfrikaans
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soaring, wandering music


Explanation:
Music that moves and speaks to the senses, sweeping the listener along. If you are looking for some kind of sound harmony or rhythmic repetition, "soaring, roaming music" is an alternative.

lexispro
Local time: 23:55
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in AfrikaansAfrikaans
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floating, meandering music


Explanation:
It lifts you up like a cloud floating in the sky and sets your mind to wander off , hence the "meandering" into different pathways.

anitadp
South Africa
Local time: 23:55
Native speaker of: Native in AfrikaansAfrikaans

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agree  Eugene Seegers
57 days
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Spiritual, Music of a nomadic (gypsy) nature


Explanation:
Three words is not really enough to enable an accurate contextual translation, thus the previous entries strictly speaking is not wrong, but allowing me some room for deductive reasoning, I conclude that; SWERWENDE MUSIC, reveres to a nomadic music (gypsy) as a gypsy will lead a 'swerwende leefstyl' -nomadic lifestyle- added to that is SWEWENDE that is floating or gliding or with poetic licence used to indicate spirituality.

Mckellar
South Africa
Local time: 23:55
Native speaker of: Native in AfrikaansAfrikaans, Native in EnglishEnglish
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