Palindromer
Palindromer – ord og sætninger, der er ens forfra og bagfra – har været populære siden gammel tid. Tyskerne har sågar fundet på et palindrom – Eibohphobie -, der betyder frygt for palindromer.
Bosnian
- Mače jede ječam
The kitten is eating barley
- Udovica baci vodu
The widow tossed the water
- Anja sebe sanja
Anja dreams of herself
Croatian
Ana loves Milovan
Czech
Do not pour beer to a deer
- Kuna nese nanuk
A marten is carrying an ice cream
Danish
- Selmas lakserøde garagedøre skal samles
Selma’s salmon red garage doors must be assembled
Dutch
- Koortsmeetsysteemstrook
Thermometer (for measuring fevers)
English
- Never odd or even
- Was it a cat I saw?
- Do geese see God?
- A man, a plan, a canal, Panama
- Go hang a salami, I’m a lasagna hog
- Murder for a jar of red rum
- Rats live on no evil star
- Rise to vote, sir
- Madam, I'm Adam
Estonian
- Kuulilennuteetunneliluuk
The hatch of the tunnel of the bullet's flight path (trajectory)
- Aias sadas saia
It was raining bread in the garden
Finnish
- Neulo taas niin saat oluen
Knit again, so that you will get a beer
- Saippuakivikauppias
A soapstone seller
- Saippuakuppinippukauppias
A soap cup trader
- Solutomaattimittaamotulos
The result from a measurement laboratory for tomatoes
- Innostunut sonni
Enthusiastic bull
French
- Et la marine va, papa, venir à Malte
And the Navy, Dad, will come to Malta
- Esope reste ici et se repose
Aesop remains here and rests
German
- Eibohphobie
That means a fear of palindromes
- Trug Tim eine so helle Hose nie mit Gurt?
Di Tim never wear such light (in color) pants without a belt?
- Sei fein, nie fies
Be fine, never be nasty
- Erika feuert nur untreue Fakire
Erika only fires unfaithful fakirs
Greek
- Nipson anomemata me monan opsin
Wash off my sins, not only my face (written on the edge of a well or a font in Constantinople, where ps is ψ)
Hungarian
- Géza, kék az ég
Géza, the sky is blue
Italian
- O mordo tua nuora o aro un autodromo
Either I bite your daughter-in-law or I plough a racetrack
I topi non avevano nipoti
mice had no grandchildren
Irish
- A Nóinín, níl an rí anocht ar Ráth Conair, ná linn in Iona
Daisy, the king is neither on Conair's fort tonight, nor with us in Iona
Latin
- In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
We enter the circle after dark and are consumed by fire
- Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor
in Rome love will come to you suddenly
Lithuanian
- Sėdėk užu kėdės
Sit behind the chair
Polish
- Ada, panna pocałowana, woła: co pan napada
Ada, a kissed girl, exclaims: why are you attacking me, sir
- Może jutro ta dama da tortu jeżom
Maybe tomorrow that lady will give a cake to the hedgehogs
- Kobyła ma mały bok
The mare has a small side
Portuguese
- Socorram-me, subi no ônibus em Marrocos
Help me I took a bus in Morocco
- A base do teto desaba
The base of the ceiling collapses
Russian
Serbian
- Ana voli Milovana
Ana is in love with Milovan
- Sir ima miris
Cheese has a smell
Slovak
- Matej je tam
Matej is there
Slovene
- V elipsi spi lev
In an ellipse there sleeps a lion
- Perica reže raci rep
A washerwoman is cutting a duck's tail
- Matej je tam
Matej is there
Spanish
- Dábale arroz a la zorra el abad
The abbot gave rice to the female fox
- Ligar es ser ágil
Flirting is agile
Swedish
- Ni talar bra latin
You talk good latin
Turkish
Konceptet og de originale eksempler på denne side er leveret af Adam Jacot de Boinod
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