In Bocca al Lupo! Learn Italian with Pega's Leowolf!

quadraptor's picture
Hello everyone! I wanted to share a little of the Italian language with you, and teach you an Italian phrase! I got some help with this too - the Leowolf came to act out the phrases for us!



So in English, you know that if you say "Break a Leg!", it's like saying "Good Luck!" Italians have a phrase similar to that:

In Bocca al Lupo!

Which literally translates to "Into the Wolf's Mouth!"



(In the Leowolf's case, since she's female, it would really be "In Bocca la Lupa!", but generally they use the male version for the saying.)

The person being wished to be 'in the wolf's mouth' replies with:

Crepi al Lupo! or simply Crepi!

Which literally translates to "May the Wolf Die!"



If the person replied "Grazie!" (Thanks!) instead of "Crepi!", they'd be wishing bad luck upon themself.

So to recap - to wish someone to 'break a leg' or otherwise 'good luck' in Italian, say:

In Bocca al Lupo!

And make sure the person replies with:

Crepi al Lupo! or Crepi!

Thanks for reading, and hope you enjoyed learning a little Italian! Ciao!!
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Haha, neat. xD I'll try to

Haha, neat. xD I'll try to remember those when I'm in Italy somewhen. o^o Thanks for putting this together!
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Ahh this is awesome! I love

Ahh this is awesome! I love the way slang phrases translate from language to language. Smiling

Ah! Rai's fursona,

Ah! Rai's fursona, (ironically also [snow] leopard and wolf XD) agrees with Pega in the "No dying" one xD
That's funny =D
Pega I wanna draw these two together -snicker-
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Quad's proud to be a cervo

Quad's proud to be a cervo (pronounced cher-voh), which is 'deer' in Italian. The plural of course is cervi (cher-vee), and a doe would be a cerva (cher-vah).

Another funny thing - 'little boy' translates to bambino; 'little girl' translates to bambina; and 'children' translates to bambini.

Si, mi Rowan es una ciervo.

Si, mi Rowan es una ciervo. Es una "peacock" tambien ;3
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Quad... How do you pronounce

Quad...

How do you pronounce those phrases? x)

/shot

somehow I don't think the second one is pronounced 'crepey' like I seem to think it is.

quadraptor's picture

The Italian language

The Italian language pronounces everything exactly as it's written.

"In Bo-cha al Lu-poh"

"Cre-peh al Lu-poh"
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FFFFFF. XDDD @Rai: Go ahead

FFFFFF. XDDD

@Rai: Go ahead if you want. Laughing out loud
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Pfft I had completely

Pfft I had completely forgotten about this topic since going on Field Camp. It's too bad I'm done with my Italian classes, I know I'll be able to remember some things though.

I still think "tutti" is my favorite word. It just sounds so silly. Eye