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"Excuse me, I can not eat..." and the 6 words below

Icelandic translation: Fyrirgefðu, en ég get ekki borðað...

12:02 Jun 29, 2002
English to Icelandic translations [Non-PRO]
Food & Drink / food
English term or phrase: "Excuse me, I can not eat..." and the 6 words below
Hi, thank you for your kind translation help :)

I need just the phrase "Excuse me, I can not eat..."
and the following 6 words

1. Meat
2. Pork
3. Poultry
4. Fish
5. Eggs
6. Thank you!
David Ginsburg
Icelandic translation:Fyrirgefðu, en ég get ekki borðað...
Explanation:
I do not know the context, but I presume that the meaning is "I am sorry, but...". Therefore my suggestion is based on that. Since you have "can not" instead of "do not" I guess the speaker is referring to someone's advise.
Excuse me = Fyrirgefðu. "Afsakaðu" is another option.
en = addition, meaning "but"
The six words:
1. Meat = kjöt (this would most likely refer to lamb or veal.)
2. Pork = svínakjöt (Icelandic has in fact only one word over the flesh of animals, then we add the name of the animal before the word "kjöt".)
3. Poultry = hænsnakjöt (since the word is "poultry" we are not talking about "chicken" which would be "kjúklingakjöt" or "kjúkling(ur)" in Icelandic.)
4. Fish = fisk (as all the other words, this is in the accusative. The nominative for fish is "fiskur".)
5. Eggs = egg
6. Thank you! = þakka þér! (it depends where in the sentence this is. If the sentence starts with it, then you have to capitalise the first letter "Þakka þér!")
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Johann Kristjansson
Iceland
Local time: 18:15
Grading comment
Thank you so much Steingeit for the detailed translation. It's very kind of you. :)
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Fyrirgefðu, en ég get ekki borðað...


Explanation:
I do not know the context, but I presume that the meaning is "I am sorry, but...". Therefore my suggestion is based on that. Since you have "can not" instead of "do not" I guess the speaker is referring to someone's advise.
Excuse me = Fyrirgefðu. "Afsakaðu" is another option.
en = addition, meaning "but"
The six words:
1. Meat = kjöt (this would most likely refer to lamb or veal.)
2. Pork = svínakjöt (Icelandic has in fact only one word over the flesh of animals, then we add the name of the animal before the word "kjöt".)
3. Poultry = hænsnakjöt (since the word is "poultry" we are not talking about "chicken" which would be "kjúklingakjöt" or "kjúkling(ur)" in Icelandic.)
4. Fish = fisk (as all the other words, this is in the accusative. The nominative for fish is "fiskur".)
5. Eggs = egg
6. Thank you! = þakka þér! (it depends where in the sentence this is. If the sentence starts with it, then you have to capitalise the first letter "Þakka þér!")

Johann Kristjansson
Iceland
Local time: 18:15
Native speaker of: Native in IcelandicIcelandic
Grading comment
Thank you so much Steingeit for the detailed translation. It's very kind of you. :)
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