May you always be each others best friend.
Italian translation: Siate sempre il miglior amico l'uno dell'altra
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Possiate restare migliori amici per sempre. Explanation: Literally "May you stay best friends forever". Not an easy sentence to translate, since "amico" is masculine ("amica" is feminine) and here the two people are quite probably of different genders. I think that "Possiate essere il migliore amico l'uno dell'altro" sounds a little too stilted and formal. (Let's see what other suggestions you get... I'm curious.) Floriana |
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5 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1possiate essere sempre il migliore amico l'uno dell'altro Explanation: I agree with Floriana, though. It sounds rather clumsy in Italian. |
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7 hrs confidence:
Che possiate sempre conservare l'amicizia l'uno per l'altro :) Explanation: Dear Jaclyn, another nice way to express this... To make it sound less clumsy in Italian, I have changed it to "May you always KEEP that FRIENDSHIP for each other". Hope it helps, FLavio :) |
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7 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1che la vostra amicizia duri per sempre Explanation: or: amatevi per tutta la vita (it's a little different but it fits the context) or: siate sempre buoni amici Hope it helps Chiara |
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Che il vostro amore viva per sempre Explanation: I would modify the sentence, since I know that in Anglo-Saxon countries you often use a sentence with "best friends" at weddings, but in Italy I have never heard anything like that. I mean, this is supposed to be something conventional, though pleasant and, hopefully, sincere. On the basis of my personal experience, people may wish a newly-married couple to love each other forever (that's what I wrote above), not to be "best friends". Plus keep in mind that family ties and friendship have a different connotation in these two languages. Italians attach a huge importance to marriage and "biological family", more than they do, say, in the US. Friends are important, of course, but generally people believe that a wife or husband is more important than just a friend. therefore your sentence would not be appropriate, in my opinion, in Italian. |
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9 hrs confidence:
che l'amicizia sia sempre presente nel vostro matrimonio Explanation: It's a bit strange in Italian, so I would change the sentence around a bit. |
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10 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +2
peer agreement (net): +2Siate sempre il miglior amico l'uno dell'altra Explanation: E' in forma un po' piu' "da prete", ma suona un po' strana...vedi tu. Anna |
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