Buy European

The Finnish translation states 'Buy a european'. It should be 'Osta Eurooppalaista'.

German is grammatically correct, but the "tone" is way off.
The intonation is identical to the anti-semitic boycott signs during the Third Reich ("Kauft nicht bei Juden").

"Unterstützt europäische Unternehmen" would be better.

Slovenian translation is awful and has no meaning. It would be translated back to english something like: "Slow euroajaian".

Correct translation would be:

1. Kupuj evropsko (buy european in general/every day)
2. Kupite evropsko (buy european now eg. For this product)
3. Kupi evropsko (more personal - you specifically buy european now eg for this product)

I vote for 3. If it a label/brand/badge on a product. And 1. If this is US boycott slogan.

in Polish it would be "kupuj europejskie". the first word in the LLM slop is obsolete and in an incorrect, made up form.

I think that the fact that, at the moment of me writing this, almost half of the translations has been pointed out to be incorrect, is a great example of the usefulness of AI

Lithuanian is wrong. Should be "pirkite europietiškus produktus". The example you gave is better than the LLM but the accusative case of european sounds odd on it's own "buy european.. what?" It's like an unfinished sentence

Can confirm Dutch. Buy European = koop Europees.

If the context requires the form 'buying European (products)' the order of words changes to 'Europese (producten) kopen'.

Hungarian is incorrect. It should be "Vásárolj európait!"

• "Európai" is the nominative case (describes the subject), "európait" is the accusative case (describes the verb's direct object or target).
• Every sentence in the imperative mood (an order or command) uses an exclamation mark.
• When the proper name of a location is used to form an adjective, the name of a language, or culture (e.g. Europe -> European), it is no longer capitalized: Európa -> európai. The exceptions are if the adjective is the first word of the sentence or if it is part of a proper noun that is normally capitalized, e.g. Európai Unió.

This is the kind of understanding that LLMs can't mimic.

Judging by the number of suggestions and corrections, this reminds me of one of those maps that manage to trigger everyone in some way. Also, goes to show that translating is hard.

Here’s an idea though. Make a “buy European” translation post in every European language specific community out there. Explain the core message of “buy European” in a a few sentences. Explain what the feeling, emotion and atmosphere would ideally be. Should be it be a command, recommendation, encouragement or something else. Ask which option fits best in that linguistic, historical and cultural context. Collect some options from the discussion. Make a poll etc.

"Köp europeiskt" in Swedish, alternatively "Handla europeiskt" that sounds more sophisticated, but technically "handel" encompasses all aspects of trade (buying, selling and trading) while "köpa" is exclusively the acts of buying.

The German translation is right but sounds a bit demanding in my opinion.

I think "Europäisch kaufen" sounds nicer and still matches the translation and meaning.

Slovene(ian): Kupuj evropsko. LLM is shit.

The correct way for Finnish is: Osta eurooppalaista. Though if you want to say "you should buy European" (that's how I'd interpret the original intent) then you'd say: Ostathan eurooppalaista. The first one is more of a demand then a recommendation.

Italian: "compra europeo" sounds better. Two reasons:

1. wrong verb - "acquistare" is more like "to acquire, to get"; "comprare" is closer to what you want.
2. wrong conjugation - you're telling someone what they should do, that requires the imperative, not the infinitive.

The Portuguese one sounds okay. For the dialects spoken in Europe "compra" would probably sound a wee bit more casual, but "compre" is still 100% fine.

Lol love to see an llm shit itself when it comes to translating into other languages

@atro_city "Αγοράζετε ευρωπαϊκά" (aghorazete evropaika) (accents on raz & ka)

Italian is wrong, it's in the infinite form and it should be in the second person. Also, I think "comprare" would fit better as a verb.

So, in Italian it should be "Compra europeo"

I would add a t to the swedish translation. "Köp Europeiskt"

Italian should be "acquista europeo" or (better, more colloquial ) "compra europeo". Acquistare Is the infinitive form, it would mean "to buy European".

In Spanish from Spain “Compra europeo” fits better. In Catalan/Valencian it would be “Compra europeu”. In Euskera it would likely be “Europako erosi” but I’m not a native speaker there.

In Estonian, "Osta euroopa" means "to buy Europe", the closest translation I can give in Estonian means more "buy from Europe", which is "Osta euroopast".

Is "buy" adressing one person directly or a group of people?

Czech: Koupit evropsky (Koupit evropsky)

I don't think that's quite right. This means more like "buy (how?) european (style)" While we want to rather say "buy (what?) european (product), right? Because if it's the "how" well you can buy like european but that doesn't mean you buy european products. So I would translate it like Kupovat evropské (produkty)

In Spanish "Compre" its ok but like a bit too formal. "Compra europeo" its more direct and sounds more natural.

The romanian one kinda works, but is too formal, impersonal and also sounds someehat strange imho.

I think "Cumpără din Europa", or "Cumpără european" are both better. These use the second person singular, which is more personal and friendly. The former would literally translate to "Buy from Europe", which I think sounds a lot closer to how people actually use the language. The latter also works and is very much understandable, but to me at least, it also sounds a bit off.

16. Lithuanian is wrong. The correction 5 is right.

The bulgarian is okay-ish but it would be more "Купувайте" if you are telling it to multiple people and "Купувай" if you are telling it to a single person.

Luxembourgish: Kaaft Europäesch!