long live
English
Pronunciation
Verb
long live
- Used in the subjunctive mood: may he, she, they, or it live for a long time; may it prosper.
Long live the King!
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Translations
prosper
- Albanian: rroftë (sq)
- Arabic: يَحْيَا m (yaḥyā), تَحيا f (taḥyā), عَاشَ m (ʕāša), عاشَت f (ʕāšat)
- Armenian: կեցցե (hy) (kecʻcʻe)
- Azerbaijani: yaşasın
- Basque: gora (eu)
- Belarusian: хай жыве́ (xaj žyvjé), няха́й жыве́ (njaxáj žyvjé), жыве́ (žyvjé)
- Bengali: জিন্দাবাদ (bn) (zindabad)
- Bulgarian: да живе́е (da živée)
- Catalan: visca (ca), viva (ca) (archaic)
- Chinese:
- Hokkien: 萬歲 / 万岁 (bān-soè)
- Mandarin: 萬歲 / 万岁 (zh) (wànsuì)
- Comorian:
- Ngazidja Comorian: iêshi
- Czech: ať žije
- Danish: længe leve
- Dutch: lang leve, leve (nl)
- Esperanto: vivu! (eo)
- Estonian: elagu
- Finnish: eläköön (fi), kauan eläköön
- French: vive (fr), longue vie à
- Georgian: გაუმარჯოს (gaumarǯos)
- German: es lebe, hoch (de), lang lebe
- Greek: ζήτω (el) (zíto) (singular and plural), ζήτωσαν (zítosan) (plural) (Katharevousa)
- Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: יְחִי (y'khí), תחי
- Hindi: ... चिरंजीव (hi) (... cirañjīv), ज़िन्दाबाद (zindābād), जय (hi) (jay)
- Hungarian: vivát! (hu), éljen! (hu)
- Icelandic: lengi lifi
- Indonesian: hidup (id), dirgahayu (id)
- Irish: go maire
- Italian: viva (it), evviva
- Japanese: ... 万歳 (ja) (ばんざい, banzai)
- Kapampangan: luid
- Khmer: ជយោ (km) (chea’you)
- Korean: […] 만세(萬歲) ([ … ] manse)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: bijî (ku)
- Latin: (used for only one person or object) vivat (la), (used for many people or objects) vivant (la)
- Macedonian: да живее (da živee)
- Malay: dirgahayu, panjang umur, daulat (ms)
- Malayalam: നീണാൽ വാഴട്ടെ (nīṇāl vāḻaṭṭe)
- Manchu: ᡨᡠᠮᡝᠨ
ᠰᡝ (tumen se)
- Māori: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian: урт наслаарай (urt naslaaraj), урт амьд байна (urt amʹd bajna), мандтугай (mandtugaj)
- Persian: زنده باد (fa) (zende bâd), جاوید (fa) (jâvid)
- Polish: niech żyje (pl)
- Portuguese: viva (pt), longa vida a, vida longa a
- Romanian: trăiască (singular and plural)
- Russian: да здра́вствует (ru) sg (da zdrávstvujet), да здра́вствуют pl (da zdrávstvujut), вива́т (ru) (vivát)
- Serbo-Croatian: живео, živeo, живио, živio, нека поживи, neka poživi
- Slovak: nech žije
- Slovene: naj živi
- Somali: cimri dheer!
- Spanish: ¡viva! (es) (used for only one person or object), ¡que viva! (used for only one person or object), ¡vivan! (es) (used for several persons or objects), ¡que vivan! (used for several persons or objects), larga vida
- Swedish: leve! (sv), länge leve!
- Tagalog: mabuhay (tl)
- Tahitian: please add this translation if you can
- Tamil: வாழ்க (ta) (vāḻka)
- Thai: ยาวสด... (yaao sòt ...)
- Tongan: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: ... çok yaşa! (tr), yaşasın ...! (tr), yaşa (tr)
- Ottoman Turkish: چوق یاشا ... (... çok yaşa)
- Turkmen: uzak ýaşa
- Ukrainian: хай живе́ (xaj žyvé)
- Urdu: زندہ باد (zinda bād)
- Vietnamese: (used for a monarch) ... vạn tuế (vi) (萬歲), muôn năm (vi) (𨷈𢆥)
- Welsh: hir oes i, ... am byth
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References
- Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartvik (1972), “Formulae”, in A Grammar of Contemporary English, New York, N.Y.; London: Seminar Press, →ISBN, chapter 7 (The simple sentence), section 7.85–89 (Formulaic utterances, greetings, etc), pages 411–412: “Apart from such cases, we must notice sentences which contain fossilized elements no longer productively used in present-day English. The old optative subjunctive survives, combined with inversion, in […] Long live anarchy! (archaic except when jocular)”
- Jeremy J. Smith (1999), “Grammar and lexicon”, in Essentials of Early English: An Introductory Text-Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part I (Descriptive material), chapter 2 (Describing language), page 42:
Earlier stages of English used special subjunctive forms of the verb rather than auxiliary verbs, as in this last example. Remnants of these forms still appear in Present-Day English, though their use is now considered by many people to be over-proper or formulaic: […] Long live the Queen.
- Melanie (30 May 2017), “Advanced English Grammar: The Subjunctive Mood”, in English Teacher Melanie[1], archived from the original on 6 June 2017: “The subjunctive is also used in some fixed expressions. […] Long live the King”
- Alexandra Rongione (17 April 2024), “Subjunctive Mood | Examples & Definition”, in QuillBot[2], Redwood City, Calif.: Course Hero, archived from the original on 6 August 2024: “The subjunctive mood has become relatively rare in modern English, but it is still used in certain contexts and expressions, such as “Long live [noun],” “God help/save us,” and “Bless you.””
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