I am cheese
I've collected numerous translations of the phrase "I am
cheese" over some time. I've substituted the local version of
cheese for the word "cheese" where cheese is not local -- so
far, tofu in east Asian languages. I'm always on the lookout for
more, so if you know one that's not here, please send it to me. Also,
if you have corrections for an existing entry, phoenetic
pronunciations for an American English speaker, or, in the case of
non-Roman alphabets (or non-encodable Roman alphabet accents, such as
the missing accent over the trailing 'u' in the Vietnamese entry),
graphics of the phrase in the appropriate alphabet, I'd appreciate
them. I'm mjbauer (at) mit (dot) edu.
Other people have done similarly silly things.
- Afrikaans
- Ek is kaas.
- American
- Me Velveeta.
- Arabic
- Anah Gibnah (Ah-nah Gibnah)
- Armenian
- Banir em. (Yes baneer'em)
- Australian
- I am cheese. (pronounced "oi em choize")
- Bengali
- Amee acta ponir.
- Bulgarian
- Az sum kashkaval. (Az sum sirene)
- Canadian
- Like, I'm cheese, eh? (fast, equal stress on all four words)
- Cantonese
- Ng` hai' dau` fu_.
- Catalan
- Sóc formatge.
- Croatian
- Ja sam sir.
- Czech
- Já jsem sýr.
- Danish
- Jeg er ost.
- Dutch
- Ik ben kaas.
- Egyptian (Ancient)
- Jnk smj. (pronounced "inek semi"; smj is curdled milk)
- English
- I am cheese.
- Esperanto
- Mi estas fromagho.
- Estonian
- Ma olen juust.
- Faroese
- Eg eri ostur
- Farsi / Iranian / Persian
- Man paniram or Man paneer hastam
- Finnish
- Minä olen juustoa
- French
- Je suis fromage.
- Frisian
- Ik bin tsiis.
- German
- Ich bin Käse.
- German (Switzerland: Zurich)
- Ich bin Chäs.
- Glaswegian
- See me, ah'm irish steak, but.
- Greek
- Ego eimai turi. (pronounced "ee-go ee-may teeree")
- Greek (Ancient)
Turos eimi.- Hebrew
- Ani gvina (Ani g'uina, an-nee g'ueenah)
- Hindi
- Mehn paneer huhn.
- Icelandic
- Ég er ostur.
- Indonesian
- Saya adalah keju. -or- Saya keju.
- Irish
- Is cáis mé. (pronounced "iss kawsh may") or Is mise cais. (pronounced "iss misha coysh")
- Italian
- Sono formaggio.
- Japanese
-
- Boku wa toufu desu. (men's informal)
- Watakushi wa toufu desu. (formal and/or women's)
- Korean
- Nahnun tooboo yah. (Korean encoding -- you may need to download a font and adjust your browser settings.)
- Latin
- Caseus sum.
- Latvian
- Es esmu siers.
- Lithuanian
- As esu suris.
- Magyar / Hungarian
- Sajt vagyok.
- Malayalam
- Njaan venaa aanu. (venna is butter; there is no word in Malayalam for cheese)
- Mandarin
- Wo(3) shr(4) dou(4) fu(1).
- Maori
- Ko au he tihi. (pronounced "co ow hay tee hee")
- Norwegian
- Jeg er ost.
- Polish
- Ja jestem ser. (Jestem serem.)
- Portuguese
- Eu sou queijo.
- Portuguese (Brazilian)
- Eu sou um queijo.
- Quenya
Naanye tyuru.- Romanian
- Sant brinza. (Eu sînt brînzä or Eu sunt brânzä)
- Russian
- Ya syr.
- Slovenian
- Jaz sem sir.
- Spanish
- Yo soy queso.
- Swedish
- Jag är ost.
- Tagalog / Filipino
- Ako ay queso.
- Tahitian
- Pata pa'ari vau.
- Taiwanese
- Wa si toufu.
- Tetum / East Timorese
- Ha'u keiju. (pronounced "how kay-jew")
- Thai
-
- Chun pen thow' hoo' (informal)
Pom^ pen thow' hoo' krup (male formal)
Dichun pen thow' hoo' ka' (female formal)
- Tsotsil
- Vu'un Tacj'an
- Turkish
- Ben peynirim.
- Ukranian
- Ya sir.
- Vietnamese
- Tôi là tà hu.
- Welsh
- Caws ydw i. (pronounced "cows udoo ee")
- Yiddish
- Ikh bin kez.
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