Jen viropluv' (song translation)
Translations:
This is a translation of the song “It’s Raining Men” by “The Weather Girls” into Esperanto. It is slightly inspired by Avlönskt’s multilingual translation of the same song.
| Esperanto | Literal English | Original English |
|---|---|---|
| Pliiĝas humido, | Humidity increases, | Humidity’s rising, |
| Depremiĝas aer', | Air loses pressure, | Barometer’s getting low, |
| Sciigas ĉiu font', | Every source informs, | According to all sources |
| Strangega pri afer': | About a very strange thing: | The street’s the place to go |
| Duonen post la deka | Half (an hour) after ten | ‘Cause tonight for the first time |
| Unufoje en histori’ | For the first time in history | Just about half-past ten |
| Aperos viroj en ĉielo | Men will appear in the sky | For the first time in history |
| Kaj falos sur ter’ de ĝi! | And fall onto earth from it! | It’s gonna start raining men! |
| … | … | … |
| Jen viropluv'! | Here’s the man-rain! | It’s raining men! |
| Laŭdu dion1! jen viropluv'! | Hail god! Here’s the man-rain! | Hallelujah! It’s raining men! |
| Diluv'! | A flood! | Amen! |
| Ho, nun mi volas ekiri al la ekster' | Oh, now I want to start2 going outside | I’m gonna go out to run and let myself get |
| Kaj malsekiĝi en ĉiu er’3! | And get myself wet in every part3! | Absolutely soaking wet! |
| … | … | … |
| Jen viropluv'! | Here’s the man-rain! | It’s raining men! |
| Laŭdu dion! jen viropluv'! | Hail god! Here’s the man-rain! | Hallelujah! It’s raining men! |
| Ĉia tipo eĉ! | Every type, even! | Every specimen! |
| Ĉia grando kaj kolor', | Every size and color, | Tall, blonde, dark and lean, |
| Kompleksio kaj humor'! | Complexion and mood! | Rough and tough and strong and mean! |
| … | … | … |
| Klare, la naturo | Clearly, the nature | God bless Mother Nature, |
| Ankaŭ estas fraŭlin', | Is also a single woman, | She’s a single woman too |
| Ŝi iris ĉielen | She went into heaven | She took off to heaven |
| Kaj plenumis la devon sian, | And fulfilled her obligation | And she did what she had to do |
| Subaĉetis anĝelojn | (She) bribed angels | She bought every angel |
| Por ke estas la kondiĉ', | So that there is the condition, | And rearranged the sky |
| En kiu por ĉiu ino | In which for every woman | So that each and every woman |
| Troveblas perfekta iĉ'! | Can be found a perfect man | Could find her perfect guy |
| … | … | … |
| Sentas mi, ke proksimiĝas ŝtorm', | I feel that a storm is coming close, | I feel stormy weather moving in |
| Proksimas komenc’ (proksimas komenc’)… | Beginning is close (beginning is close)… | About to begin (About to begin) |
| Freneziĝas volo en spirit’… | Desire in spirit is becoming crazy… | Hear the thunder, don’t you lose your head |
| Ŝiri tegaĵon kaj resti en lit'! | To tear the roof and stay in bed! | Rip off the roof and stay in bed! |
| … | … | … |
Esperanto also has a literal loanword “haleluja”, but in my translations, I prefer to form sentences using the more basic Esperanto words whenever possible, rather than use loans directly. ↩︎