Best Friends

[Zenity]

Hi there!

Found this forum researching for tranlation of "best friends" male and female in as many languages as possible and stumbled upon this old thread:

http://forum.wordreference.com/threads/best-friend.277960/

However, is singular, no plural and I need plural in masculine and femenine gender if applies.

So far I know only four languages, but I am uncertain about the rest. Yes, I did use a translator, yet I am afraid it could not be as accurate as I need.
Any help would be highly appreciated.

English - Neutral gender : best friends
Spanish - Femenine: mejores amigas - Masculine: mejores amigos
Italian - Femenine: migliore amiche - Masculine: migliori amici
Catalan - Femenine: millors amigues - Masculine: millors amics
Greek
Portuguese
French
German
Indonesian
Arabian
Chineese
Russian
Irish
Etc... including any dialects or not-so-known languages...

Let's see how many languages can we find here!

Thanks!
;-)

 

[810senior]

Hi, Zenity.

French: Feminine - Meilleure amie, Masculine - Meilleur ami
Japanese: Neutral - 親友(shinyuu - close friend), 悪友(akuyuu - bad friend)

 

[Messquito]

In Chinese it is 最好的朋友, literally
The plural form is the same, or we could say there is no such thing as plural in Chinese.
But if you want to emphasize that there are more than 1 friend, you could say 最好的朋友們
Chinese - Neutral: 最好的朋友(們)

There are also bunches of sayings that refer to very close friends:
死黨＝死(death)+黨(party, as in political party) --> being in a party till death -->friends that always support each other
莫逆之交＝莫(no)+逆(betray)+交(connection/relation) --> a friendship of no betrayal -->loyal friends
生死之交＝生(life)+死(death)+交(connection/relation) --> a friend of life and death
Watch this thread for more:
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/朋友

 

[Dymn]

French: Feminine - Meilleure amie, Masculine - Meilleur ami

It would be better to translate it keeping the plural form: meuilleures amies, meuilleurs amis

 

[apmoy70]

Greek:

«Καλύτεροι φίλοι» [kaˈliteɾi ˈfili] (masc.)
«Καλύτερες φίλες» [kaˈliteɾes ˈfiles] (fem.)

 

[810senior]

Sorry I forgot that OP wanted a plural form...

莫逆之交＝莫(no)+逆(betray)+交(connection/relation) --> a friendship of no betrayal -->loyal friends

I guess Japanese and Chinese have some words about this in common.
莫逆の友bakugyaku no tomo: a friend of no betrayal (we don't say 莫逆之交 but 莫逆之友)
竹馬の友chikuba no tomo: a friend of a bamboo horse (it indicates a friend since childhood)
刎頚の友funkei no tomo : a friend of decapitation (it means that a friend who can have his or her neck decapitated for me)
刎頸の交わり(刎頸之交)funkei no majiwari : a friendship of decapitation (same above)
水魚の交わり(水魚之交)suigyo no maziwari: a friendship between water and fish
無二の友人muni no yuujin: a irreplaceable friend (無二 means there is nothing more than two but only one)

 

[ger4]

Estonian (a language without grammatical gender but here it is possible to make a distinction):
parimad sõbrad - masculine (also used if gender doesn't matter)
parimad sõbrannad - feminine

German:
beste Freunde - masculine or masculine + feminine, indefinite
die besten Freunde - masc. or masc. + fem., definite
beste Freundinnen - feminine, indefinite
die besten Freundinnen - fem., definite

 

[AutumnOwl]

Swedish:
Bästa vänner - best friends (masculine or feminine)
Bästisar - pals, best friends (colloquial, usually used by children and teen girls, but also about someone you've been friends with since childhood)
Vi har varit bästisar sedan barnsben - we have been best friends since childhood (e.g. child legs )
Bästa kompisar - best mates/buddies (masculine and feminine)

 

[Armas]

Finnish

parhaat ystävät or parhaat ystävykset (masc./fem.)
(colloquial) parhaat kaverit or parhaat kaverukset (masc./fem.)

Feminine is parhaat ystävättäret, but you should use this only if you want to say that A and B are the best female friends of C (and C too is female).

 

[Liootas]

Lithuanian
M: geriausi draugai
F: geriausios draugės

 

[symposium]

Italian - Femenine: migliore amiche

It's "migliori amiche/ migliori amici".

 

[Welsh_Sion]

Cymraeg/Welsh

Ffrind gorau (for male/female, sing.)
Ffrindiau gorau (for males/females, plur.)
Ffrins gorau (for males/females, plur.)

Cyfaill gorau (for males/females, sing.)
Cyfeilles* orau** (for female, sing.)
Cyfeillion gorau (for males/females, plur.)
Cyfeillesau* gorau (for females, plur.)

* Cyfeilles/Cyfeillesau are rather old-fashioned words, and in fact most in this group bow to 'the ffrind group' in every day, informal speech.
** Orau is not a typo, but a feature of Welsh grammar.

 

[KalAlbè]

Haitian Creole:

Pi bon zanmi

No difference between masculine and feminine.

 

[jazyk]

English - Neutral gender : best friends
Spanish - Feminine: mejores amigas - Masculine: mejores amigos
Portuguese - Feminine: melhores amigas - Masculine: melhores amigos

 

[ThomasK]

Dutch:
beste vrienden (masculine & mixed),
beste vriendinnen (solely girlfriends)...

 

[nimak]

Macedonian:

најдобри другари (nájdobri drúgari) - masculine & mixed
најдобри другарки (nájdobri drúgarki) - feminine

or

најдобри пријатели (nájdobri prijáteli) - masculine & mixed
најдобри пријателки (nájdobri prijátelki) - feminine