Question for all Italians
14 years 1 month ago #82425
by Rock and Roll
Question for all Italians was created by Rock and Roll
Ciao 
I m busy writing a speech for Saturday (for whoever is interested I m president/chairman of a tennis club and in the winter months we ve layed new courts and renovated the whole park / clubhouse etc.).
Our club is called Bonaventura, and I need as good a translation as possible.
The best I can come up with is Good Fortune or Good Luck .
I only know a few words of Italian so I might be totally wrong....
Can somebody please tell me if this is correct, or please suggest a better translation?
Grazie!
Rock
I m busy writing a speech for Saturday (for whoever is interested I m president/chairman of a tennis club and in the winter months we ve layed new courts and renovated the whole park / clubhouse etc.).
Our club is called Bonaventura, and I need as good a translation as possible.
The best I can come up with is Good Fortune or Good Luck .
I only know a few words of Italian so I might be totally wrong....
Can somebody please tell me if this is correct, or please suggest a better translation?
Grazie!
Rock
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14 years 1 month ago - 14 years 1 month ago #82438
by Retrieving
Replied by Retrieving on topic Re: Question for all Italians
Bonaventura isn t an italian word per se, it is however a fairly common last name over here.
Can t be arsed to look up the actual etymology, it appears as if it is composed by two words though: ventura which means fate , destiny , or luck , depending on the contest (whereas sventura means bad luck ), and bona which besides being the slang ish contraction of buona (most likely its archaic counterpart) also (quite literally) translates into good , favorable .
So yeah, your translation wasn t that far-fetched after all.
Can t be arsed to look up the actual etymology, it appears as if it is composed by two words though: ventura which means fate , destiny , or luck , depending on the contest (whereas sventura means bad luck ), and bona which besides being the slang ish contraction of buona (most likely its archaic counterpart) also (quite literally) translates into good , favorable .
So yeah, your translation wasn t that far-fetched after all.
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14 years 1 month ago #82566
by Rock and Roll
Replied by Rock and Roll on topic Re: Question for all Italians
Thanks a lot! It was an important part and I really needed the proper translation (I had to translate it to Dutch after the English translation ).
Speech went well (nobody threw rotten tomatoes at me!), so I m happy
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).Speech went well (nobody threw rotten tomatoes at me!), so I m happy
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