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Hope in Other Languages Trivia Quiz

There's still hope! Identify the word for hope in these Indo-European languages, and everything will be okay.

A multiple-choice quiz by lingophilia. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
lingophilia

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
348,835

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
5 / 10

Plays
463

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Question 1 of 10

1. We're looking for a way to reassure our Irish friends. How do you say "hope" in Irish? Hint

gobaith

govenek

doghys

d�chas

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Question 2 of 10

2. The Indo-Iranian family is quite large, so let's just calm the Iranian group first. How do you say "hope" in Farsi, also known as New Persian? Hint

hila

esperanza

h�wa

arzoo

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Question 3 of 10

3. Many people in India are multilingual, but Hindi and Urdu, two common Indian languages, are mutually intelligible. So can you figure out how to say "hope" in Urdu? Hint

asa

ashe

umeed

ash

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Question 4 of 10

4. We also need to inspire the Balto-Slavic group. Can you give them "hope" in Polish? Hint

spadzyavatztza

cerība

nada

nadzieja

5. Another language family in need of encouragement is the Italic languages. Most of these languages (like Umbrian, Sicel, and Latin) are dead, but all the modern Romance languages are descended from Latin. Romance languages are pretty well known, so I don't want to make this one to easy. Can you give me some "hope" in Catalan? Hint

esperan�a

esperanza

esp�rance

speranţă

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Question 6 of 10

6. Extinct languages need more hope than others. Though they don't belong to the same family, let's cheer up the dead languages by spreading some "hope" in ancient Greek. What word would you use?
Hint

elpis

tikvah

spes

azvasa

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Question 7 of 10

7. As English speakers, we mustn't forget our immediate Germanic family. Although we already learned about "hope" in Icelandic, what is the Swedish word? Hint

hoppas

h�b

hoop

hofenung

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Question 8 of 10

8. Here's another set which obviously don't all come from the same family. Linguists consider Armenian to be its own branch of Indo-European. They must be awfully lonely! Let's give them some "hope". Hint

nadezhda

speranzsa

shpres�

howys

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Question 9 of 10

9. In what country with four official languages could you give people hope with these three words: "Hoffnung", "Esp�rance", and "Speranza"?

Answer: (One Word)

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Question 10 of 10

10. Before we can bask in our success, we need to make sure to include everyone in our "hope" campaign, so here are a few languages that are less well-known. Can you pick out which one is the word 'hope' in Walloon (a Romance language spoken in northern France and Belgium)? Hint

n�dzeja

hope

v�n

espwer

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. We're looking for a way to reassure our Irish friends. How do you say "hope" in Irish?

Answer: d�chas

"Gobaith" is Welsh, "govenek" is Cornish, "doghys" is Manx. The resemblance between the Welsh and Cornish, as well as between Manx and Irish is due to the fact that they belong to the same language families: Brythonic and Goidelic respectively.

2. The Indo-Iranian family is quite large, so let's just calm the Iranian group first. How do you say "hope" in Farsi, also known as New Persian?

Answer: arzoo

"Hila" is Pashto, "h�wa" is Kurdish, and "esperanza" is Spanish (not a member of the Indo-Iranian family). Only Spanish actually uses the Latin alphabet; the others are transliterated.

3. Many people in India are multilingual, but Hindi and Urdu, two common Indian languages, are mutually intelligible. So can you figure out how to say "hope" in Urdu?

Answer: umeed

"Ashe" is Bengali, "ash" is Nepali, and "asa" (or more correctly "āśā", with the correct diacritics) is Hindi. Clearly, not all the words in Hindi and Urdu are mutually intelligible. The words above are transliterated, the languages all use a different alphabet.

4. We also need to inspire the Balto-Slavic group. Can you give them "hope" in Polish?

Answer: nadzieja

"Spadzyavatztza" is Belarusian, "nada" is Croatian, and "cerība" is Latvian. Belarusian uses the Cyrillic alphabet instead of the Latin one.

Answer: esperan�a

Hope is also "esperan�a" in Portuguese. "Esp�rance" is French, "esperanza" is Spanish and Galician, and "speranţă" is Romanian.

6. Extinct languages need more hope than others. Though they don't belong to the same family, let's cheer up the dead languages by spreading some "hope" in ancient Greek. What word would you use?

Answer: elpis

"Spes" is Latin, "tikvah" is Hebrew, and "azvasa" is Sanskrit. Sanskrit is not technically dead, but like Hebrew it is not the same language today as it was when it was used to write famous literature such as the Vedas, the Sutras, and the Ramayana. In the Bible, Tikvah is a boy's name, but today it is most frequently used as a girl's name.

7. As English speakers, we mustn't forget our immediate Germanic family. Although we already learned about "hope" in Icelandic, what is the Swedish word?

Answer: hoppas

"Hoop" is Dutch, "h�b" is Danish, and "hofenung" is Yiddish (derived from the German "Hoffnung").

Answer: howys

"Nadezhda" is Russian, "speranzsa" is Venetian (a Romance language spoken in parts of Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Brazil, and Mexico), and "shpres�" is Albanian (another independent branch of Indo-European).

9. In what country with four official languages could you give people hope with these three words: "Hoffnung", "Esp�rance", and "Speranza"?

Answer: Switzerland

"Hoffnung" is German, "esp�rance" is French, and "speranza" is both Italian and Romansh.

Answer: espwer

"N�dzeja" is Kashubian (which is sometimes classified as a dialect of Polish, and is spoken in Poland and Germany), "v�n" is Faroese (an isolated language spoken in the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean between Scotland and Iceland), and "hope" is, of course, English.

Source: Author lingophilia

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