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Old Sep 8, 2016 | 9:42 pm
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Originally Posted by kaszeta
I realized I haven't given much in the way of example Faroese aside from a few placenames, so here's a nice sign:



Google Translate doesn't work with Faroese, although you can sometimes get partial translations with Icelandic, since the languages are similar. For example, I recognize that "Góðu tit" is basically "Welcome [you]", "Hjálpið okkum" is "Help us", and "grasinum" is "grass (plural)".
With my moderate Swedish abilities (and, in turn, very basic Danish and Norweigian), I believe it says...

Welcome - Help us (to) keep ??? clean and beautiful and not walk on the grass.

The only word I don't know is økið.

This was an epic TR. Thanks for sharing.

Edited to add: with the help of this, økið means "the area".

Last edited by pseudoswede; Sep 8, 2016 at 10:01 pm
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