Hi Mary, > I am doing some translating and am stuck on some words and phrases. I > using SLOVENE English-Slovene/Slovene-English Modern Dictionary by Dasa > Komac and SLOVENSKO-ANGLESKI SLOVAR by Anton Grad and Henry Leeming. I > would greatly appreciate help with the following. it would be more easy to translate the whole sentence rather than the basic word, but let me try: > teh - these > sicer - otherwise, else > bili - they were > brojeca (v over the c) - counting, many (the 'brojecˇa' is not slovenian, it's croatian word. Unfortunately slovenian language not far ago used to use a lot of croation expressions) > bil - he was, it was > bila - she was > sinova - two sons > te - this, but related to female > poducevala (v over the c) - she was teaching > tek. farni soli. (v over the s) - (I can't immagine what abbreviation for 'tek.' would mean) - parish school > zivijo - they are still living > niso - they wasn't, they don't > stelo (v over the s) - count > tedanji - at that time > izdana pododom - special edition > tridesetletnice (30 years?) - 30 years universary > Jednote - (this is also croation word!) - > se ziveci (v over the s, z, c) - still living > poslanka (representative?) - female member of Parliment > nadzornica (inspector?) - female supervisor, inspector > > Drustvo steje 165 clanov(ic) v obeh oddelkih - ....... counts 165 > members in both .......... - Society counts 165 members in both departments > Dosedaj j umrlo 7 clanov & 4 clanice - till now died 7 mail-members and 4 female-members > Pri drustuv sta izmed teh se ziva From all members of society are still (two of them!) alive > Skupina ucencev in ucenk farne sole matere bozje, Waukegan, Ill. prvo > leto po otvoritvi The group of schoolboys and schoolgirls in parish school of Mother of God, Waukegan, Ill. the first year after opening > Thank you. Hope this'll helps, daniela from sLOVEnia