How do you say CAT in your language?

**Ouistreham** · 08-04-2012, 10:20 PM

In French, chat.
In my local Norman/Picard dialect, cat.

**The Lawspeaker** · 08-04-2012, 10:20 PM

And I love cats but my neighbours' cat is a rotkat.

**Kazimiera** · 08-04-2012, 10:21 PM

Originally Posted by Tuan Belanda

Kat -plural: katten. (poes is used for a female cat and kater for a male cat).

Afrikaans - kat (pl. katte)

German - Katze (pl. Katzen)

Xhosa - ikati (pl. iikati)

In Afrikaans a poes is a cunt.

**kabeiros** · 08-04-2012, 10:23 PM

we also call a cat ''psipsina''

**The Lawspeaker** · 08-04-2012, 10:23 PM

Originally Posted by Kazimiera

In Afrikaans a poes is a cunt.

Same here. It is used here as a vulgar word for the female genitalia.

**Kazimiera** · 08-04-2012, 10:28 PM

CAT

Computed axial tomography

**Archduke** · 08-04-2012, 10:28 PM

Originally Posted by rashka

Bulgarian
cat - котка (kotka)

**Pallantides** · 08-04-2012, 10:31 PM

Singular(Indefinite, Specific)

Katt, Katten

Plural(Indefinite, Specific)

Katter, Kattene

**Piper** · 08-04-2012, 10:31 PM

Romanian

pisică = female cat, and cat in general
pisoi = kitten
pis-pis = to call a cat
motan = male cat / tomcat
mâță = female cat (regionalism)

**Ouistreham** · 08-04-2012, 10:35 PM

Originally Posted by Kazimiera

In Afrikaans a poes is a cunt.

Yep.
Like in English ("pussy").
And like in French: chatte (a she-cat) is a word you have to be careful with, cause in our slang it means "slit", if you see what I mean.

Same for minou, which is an affectuous denomination for a sweet feline animal, bat takes another meaning in sexual intercourse (something hollow and wet...).