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In German, it is called Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt which, translated word-by-word, means The small Caterpillar Never-sated. I always found that an especially c
by _Microft 5y ago
In German, it is called Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt which, translated word-by-word, means The small Caterpillar Never-sated. I always found that an especially cute name.
How is The Very Hungry Caterpillar called in your language? Did the translator have similar freedoms with the name?
- roywashere 5y agoDutch: Rupsje Nooitgenoeg (Little Caterpillar Neverenough)
- coccinelle 5y agoFrench seems to be La Chenille qui fait des trous: The Caterpillar That Makes Holes. Very underwhelming compared to the German or Dutch translations if you ask me!
- cycomanic 5y agoI have a French partner (am German myself) and was surprised how old-fashioned many French children's literature is (only changed with very recent books). The same goes for translations of other work. When we had children I was absolutely amazed that my partner didn't know Pippi Longstockings. Well turned out that the French translation was tamed/censored significantly, because Pippi was too rebellious (I know the irony in France), and because of that was never successful. They only made a new, more accurate translation in the late 1990s. Hence my partner who is born significantly before didn't know it.
- Agentlien 5y agoPart of this is of course the name. Pippi sounds like "pipi" as in "faire pipi", to pee. So they renamed her Fifi.
- Svip 5y agoThe Danish title is very similar to the German and Dutch ones, Den sultne larve Aldrigmæt meaning The hungry larva Never-sated.
- _Microft 5y agoI just looked up Norwegian and it's Den lille larven Aldrimett there.
- lemming 5y agoIn Spanish it’s La oruga muy hambrienta which is a straight translation of the English.
- ralmeida 5y agoIn Portuguese, it's _Uma lagarta muito comilona_ according to Amazon - something like "A very guzzling cartepillar"
- pietroppeter 5y agoIn Italian same as in German: “Il piccolo bruco maisazio”. Having “mai” (never) “sazio” (sated) fused as a single word is unusual in Italian but very effective in this case. https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_piccolo_Bruco_Maisazio https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_piccolo_Bruco_Maisazio
- dotcommand 5y ago> In German, it is called Die kleine Raupe Nimmersatt which, translated word-by-word, means The small Caterpillar Never-sated. I always found that an especially cute name. So if we translated it from german directly back to english, the title would be "The Insatiable Caterpillar". Which is close to original "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" but not quite the same. There is a difference between "insatiable" and "very hungry" - namely the "very hungry" can eventually be sated. It's strange how the translation/conversion from one language to another and then back doesn't necessarily get you the original. It would be like converting $10 to euros and then back to dollars doesn't get you the original $10 ( ignoring fees ).
- jimktrains2 5y agoMay I introduce you to Malinda. https://m.youtube.com/user/malineka146 https://m.youtube.com/user/malineka146 She takes lyrics translates them from English to something else to something else gc a few times and then back to English. It's quite amusing.
- MichaelMoser123 5y agoIn Hebrew it's 'הזחל הרעב' - 'the Hungry Catterpillar' (i used to add stuff to what else the catterpillar was eating, my kids would usually join the show, and so the caterpillar was eating couscous and falafel. Did you guys do that to?).
- Agentlien 5y agoI'm Swedish, my wife is from Belgium and introduced me to Eric Carle when she bought several of his books for our children. Before that I had never read any of his books and only recognised the title of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Looking a bit I can't find any of his books in Swedish and neither he nor the caterpillar seem to have a Swedish wiki page.
- dagw 5y agoHere's the book in Swedish: https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/den-mycket-hungriga-larven-9789179033415 https://www.adlibris.com/se/bok/den-mycket-hungriga-larven-9... Anecdotally I'd say well over half the people I know here in Sweden with kids of the relevant age own a copy. I also definitely read it as a kid, had it read to me in kindergarten, and even remember it as an 'animated' TV show (basically panning shots over the illustrations as a narrator read the story).
- Agentlien 5y agoIt's fascinating how culture can be so segmented within such a small population. When we got the books for our kids I read them and loved them. I told my mother about them and she didn't recognize them at all. How old are you? I was born in 1987 so I grew up in the nineties.
- dagw 5y agoI grew up in the 80s, so that could be a factor.