Does anyone have a word suggestion that resolves the following problem for a friend?
Does anyone have a word suggestion that resolves the following problem for a friend?
“I’m in desperate need of a single word that translates to something in the neighborhood of, ‘What a pleasure to be separated, so that we may return to one another.’”
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Aufwiedersehen in German comes close.
I'm reminded of a country song titled, "How Can I Miss You if You Won't Go Away?"
Thank you, I hadn't thought about an aloha or Aufwiedersehen tact.
German is really good at finding single words for things.
In Schweizerdeutsch (Swiss German) it's "Wieder Lorgen", sort of "until we look at each other again". If you enhance "look at" to "gaze upon", it's almost swoon-worthy.
While Swiss German is, well, different, wieder lorgen makes no sense to me and doesn't come up when Googled. Could it be something close but different?
Auf wiedersehen means pretty much the same thing as au revoir in French and do svidaniya in Russian: 'until seeing again' or 'until re-seeing'.
Rob I only heard it, never saw it written, and it was translated from Swiss German to English for me by a Dane, so who knows!
Reuniting or reunion in the best, most personal sense, though not always the common, generic usage.
Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
I was going to offer this sweet quote from Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliette', but you beat me to it!
My father always says, "Take your time leaving, and hurry back!"
That's so sweet!
Poor Leigh DeFreece. Unfortunately, desperate need doesn't guarantee a single word solution. There is a universe of things for which no single word exists. That's why we have phrases and sentences.
"Retrouvailles" It's French for the joy of reuniting, the feeling you get after returning after a long time away.
