sorry if there is another post about this!!!!!

But could people tell me what "best friend" is in as many languages as possible!!!!

Thanks!!!

 

In Russian: лучший друг (male); лучшая подруга (female).

 

The best friend :En iyi arkadaş

 

German

Best friend: Bester Freund
The best friend: Der beste Freund

 

In Portuguese:

masculine: melhor amigo
feminine: melhor amiga

 

Norwegian: bestevenn (can be used for both male and female), bestevenninne (female only).

 

Catalan: Millor amic (m); Millor amiga (f)
Castillian: Mejor amigo (m); Mejor amiga (f)

 

In Swedish we say "bästis" for both guys and girls. The more formal way would be "min bäste vän" or "min bästa väninna".

In Romanian it's "prietenul/amicul cel mai bun" and "prietena/amica cea mai buna".

robbie

 

thanks!!!

Any other languages would be greatly appreciated, does anyone know what it is in Greek, or spanish?

 

In Indonesian: "sahabat"

Regards

 

Migliore amico (italian)
Meilleur ami (french)

 

Castillian is Spanish

 

Ukrainian: найлучша подруга (I think!!)

 

so it is !!!!

 

In Irish it's:

mo rogha chara which literally means my friend of choice

Cat

 

I don't know any Ukranian, but isn't that a feminine form (which means that the masculine form is missing)?

 

Yes, you're right! Thank you very much for noticing - I did forget to include the masculine form.. silly me.
Masculine: найлучший друг
(they are nearly the same as the words for friend in Russian.)

 

Spanish: Mi mejor amigo - My best friend ( malish)
Mi mejor amiga - My best friend (female)

El mejor amigo (a) - The best Friend

Hindi: Im not sure if it´s the best but a very good friend would be " Ek bohot achcha dost" " ek badi Dost" , any further comment on this one is highly appreciated

Om Shanti

 

Polish:
najlepszy przyjaciel (talking about a man)
najlepsza przyjaciółka (talking about a woman)

 

Finnish:
paras ystävä

 

In mandarin:
good friend - 好朋友
best friend (although I'm not sure if it's commonly used) - 最好朋友

 

Isn't the Ukrainian word for friend "друже"? aaaand, наилучший sounds suspiciously Russian to me! There surely is some own, better fitting word - something like наикраший or наилiпший maybe?

 

fem.:
Beste Freundin
Die beste Freundin

neu.:
Bestes Freunding
Das baste Freunding
forget it

 

Baaahhh! I give up! I really don't know what made me write that! Okay, I confess; I can't speak Ukrainian to save my life. I mean, forgeiners who haven't pronounced a word in it ever before, make me feel ashamed with their knowlegde.
Найкращий is definately better... But, I think we say 'друг'. 'Друже' is the nomative case!

 

Russian:

лучший друг

Arabic:

الصديق الأفضل.

Chinese:

最好的朋友

~Elizabeth

 

I don't know squat about Ukrainian, but Друже sounds like vocative to me.

 

is this one phrase or 2 different ways of saying best friend???

 

this is great, thanks!!!

does anyone know what it is in greek???

 

In Czech it is:

nejlepší přítel

 

In Russian, it is. But it sounds very, very old-fashionable now, and is used only on informal contexts, most usually humorously.

 

In GREEK it is:
masc: ο καλύτερός (μου) φίλος /o kalíterós mu fílos/
fem: η καλύτερή (μου)φίλη /i kalíterí mu fíli/

NB: I've included the possessive pronoun "μου/my" in brackets so that you see where it would be positioned in the noun phrase.

 

Like you said "ek bahut achChaa dost" means "a very good friend" - We're looking for "best friend" here . That would be:

सब से अच्छा दोस्त
Sab se achChaa dost

Gujarati:

બદ્ધા કરતા સારો દોસ્ત
baddhaa kartaa saaro dost

French:

meilleur(e) ami(e)

(add "-e"s if feminine)

 

In Arabic:
Best friend:
صديق حميم (sadeeq 7ameem)- male
صديقة حميمة (sadeeqa 7ameema)- female

 

In Dutch:
Beste vriend (m)/vriendin (f)

 

thanks everyone, this is a great help!!!

 

Røverspråk (N) (language of thieves) bobesostotevovenonon

 

eh???

 

In Serbian:

najbolji drug (m.) / najbolja drugarica (f.)
(Cyrillic: најбољи друг / најбоља другарица)

najbolji prijatelj (m.) / najbolja prijateljica (f.)
(најбољи пријатељ / најбоља пријатељица)

 

Estonian: parim sõber
or südamesõber

 

Ukrainian: найкраща подруга, найліпша подруга
по́се́стра = дуже близька подруга (very close girlfriend)

 

Colloquially «ο κολλητός, η κολλητή» [ɔ kɔ.liˈtɔs] (masc.), [i kɔ.liˈti] (fem.) --> the clinger (but without the negative connotation the word has in English) < «κόλλα» [ˈkɔ.la] (fem.) --> glue.