long live

English

Verb

long live

Used in the subjunctive mood: may he, she, they, or it live for a long time; may it prosper.
Long live the King!

Antonyms

Derived terms

the king is dead, long live the king
X is dead, long live Y (snowclone)

Translations

prosper

Albanian: rroftë (sq)
Arabic: يَحْيَا m (yaḥyā), تَحيا f (taḥyā), عَاشَ m (ʕāša), عاشَت f (ʕāšat)
Armenian: կեցցե (hy) (kecʻcʻe)
Azerbaijani: yaşasın
Basque: gora (eu)
Belarusian: хай жыве́ (xaj žyvjé), няха́й жыве́ (njaxáj žyvjé), жыве́ (žyvjé)
Bengali: জিন্দাবাদ (bn) (zindabad)
Bulgarian: да живе́е (da živée)
Catalan: visca (ca), viva (ca) (archaic)
Chinese:
Hokkien: 萬歲 / 万岁 (bān-soè)

Mandarin: 萬歲 / 万岁 (zh) (wànsuì)
Czech: ať žije
Danish: længe leve
Dutch: lang leve, leve (nl)
Esperanto: vivu! (eo)
Estonian: elagu
Finnish: eläköön (fi), kauan eläköön
French: vive (fr), longue vie à
Georgian: გაუმარჯოს (gaumarǯos)
German: es lebe, hoch (de), lang lebe
Greek: ζήτω (el) (zíto) (singular and plural), ζήτωσαν (zítosan) (plural) (Katharevousa)
Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can
Hebrew: יְחִי (y'khí), תחי
Hindi: ... चिरंजीव (hi) (... cirañjīv), ज़िन्दाबाद (zindābād), जय (hi) (jay)
Hungarian: vivát! (hu), éljen! (hu)
Icelandic: lengi lifi
Indonesian: hidup (id), dirgahayu (id)
Irish: go maire
Italian: viva (it), evviva
Japanese: ... 万歳 (ja) (ばんざい, banzai)
Kapampangan: luid (pam)
Khmer: ជយោ (km) (chea’you)
Korean: […] 만세(萬歲) ([ … ] manse)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: bijî (ku)
Latin: (used for only one person or object) vivat (la), (used for many people or objects) vivant (la)
Macedonian: да живее (da živee)
Malay: dirgahayu, panjang umur, daulat (ms)
Malayalam: നീണാൽ വാഴട്ടെ (nīṇāl vāḻaṭṭe)
Manchu: ᡨᡠᠮᡝᠨ
ᠰᡝ (tumen se)
Maori: please add this translation if you can
Mongolian: урт наслаарай (urt naslaaraj), урт амьд байна (urt amʹd bajna), мандтугай (mandtugaj)
Ngazidja Comorian: iêshi
Ottoman Turkish: چوق یاشا ... (... çok yaşa)
Persian: زنده باد (fa) (zende bâd), جاوید (fa) (jâvid)
Polish: niech żyje (pl)
Portuguese: viva (pt), longa vida a, vida longa a
Romanian: trăiască (singular and plural)
Russian: да здра́вствует (ru) sg (da zdrávstvujet), да здра́вствуют pl (da zdrávstvujut), вива́т (ru) (vivát)
Serbo-Croatian: живео, živeo, живио, živio, нека поживи, neka poživi
Slovak: nech žije
Slovene: naj živi
Somali: cimri dheer!
Spanish: ¡viva! (es) (used for only one person or object), ¡que viva! (used for only one person or object), ¡vivan! (es) (used for several persons or objects), ¡que vivan! (used for several persons or objects), larga vida
Swedish: leve! (sv), länge leve!
Tagalog: mabuhay (tl)
Tahitian: please add this translation if you can
Tongan: please add this translation if you can
Thai: ยาวสด... (yaao sòt ...)
Turkish: ... çok yaşa! (tr), yaşasın ...! (tr), yaşa (tr)
Turkmen: uzak ýaşa
Ukrainian: хай живе́ (xaj žyvé)
Urdu: زنده باد (zinda bād)
Vietnamese: (used for a monarch) ... vạn tuế (vi) (萬歲), muôn năm (vi) (𨷈𢆥)
Welsh: hir oes i, ... am byth

References

Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartvik (1972), “Formulae”, in A Grammar of Contemporary English, New York, N.Y.; London: Seminar Press, →ISBN, chapter 7 (The simple sentence), section 7.85–89 (Formulaic utterances, greetings, etc), pages 411–412: “Apart from such cases, we must notice sentences which contain fossilized elements no longer productively used in present-day English. The old optative subjunctive survives, combined with inversion, in […] Long live anarchy! (archaic except when jocular)”
Jeremy J. Smith (1999), “Grammar and lexicon”, in Essentials of Early English: An Introductory Text-Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, part I (Descriptive material), chapter 2 (Describing language), page 42:
Earlier stages of English used special subjunctive forms of the verb rather than auxiliary verbs, as in this last example. Remnants of these forms still appear in Present-Day English, though their use is now considered by many people to be over-proper or formulaic: […] Long live the Queen.
Melanie (30 May 2017), “Advanced English Grammar: The Subjunctive Mood”, in English Teacher Melanie‎^[1], archived from the original on 6 June 2017: “The subjunctive is also used in some fixed expressions. […] Long live the King”
Alexandra Rongione (17 April 2024), “Subjunctive Mood | Examples & Definition”, in QuillBot‎^[2], Redwood City, Calif.: Course Hero, archived from the original on 6 August 2024: “The subjunctive mood has become relatively rare in modern English, but it is still used in certain contexts and expressions, such as “Long live [noun],” “God help/save us,” and “Bless you.””

Anagrams

livelong, loveling