Star Wars - Impressions, no spoilers, just impressions!

[Duque de Bragança]

Return of the Jedi was in plural in German - which makes sense as there are briefly two Jedi Knights at the end when Vader becomes Anakin Skywalker again.

Heh, it was singular in Spanish and Catalan. I guess they didn't care much back then for uniformity.

Retour du Jedi in French so singular too but then the original title (Star Wars) was badly translated too: La Guerre des Etoiles. Happened in more, if not most, languages too.
It should have been les Guerres Stellaires. More than one war.
OTOH, Jedi could be seen as a collective noun in French too.

[Zanza]

Krieg der Sterne - War of the Stars ("Sternenkrieg" would have been a better translation of Star Wars)
Das Imperium schlägt zurück - The Empire Strikes Back
Die Rückkehr der Jedi-Ritter - The Return of the Jedi Knights
Die Dunkle Bedrohung - The Dark Menace
Angriff der Klonkrieger - Attack of the Clone Warriors
Die Rache der Sith - The Revenge of the Sith
Das Erwachen der Macht - The Awakening of the Force

Rogue One didn't have a German title...

[Admiral Yi]

It must really fuck with little German kids' heads to have their mothers speak that language to them in the crib.   

[celedhring]

La Guerra de las Galaxias - The War of the Galaxies (yeah I know, makes no sense since there's only one galaxy).
El Imperio Contraataca - The Empire Strikes Back
El Retorno del Jedi - The Return of the Jedi (singular)
La Amenaza Fantasma - The Phantom Menace
El Ataque de los Clones - The Attack of the Clones
La Venganza de los Sith - The Revenge of the Sith (plural)
El Despertar de la Fuerza - The Awakening of The Force

[celedhring]

It must really fuck with little German kids' heads to have their mothers speak that language to them in the crib.   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezrJHau7dzU

[Grinning_Colossus]

Wait. Jedi is only both singular and plural because it's analogous to samurai. How do languages like German and Italian handle ambiguous Japanese terms?

[celedhring]

Wait. Jedi is only both singular and plural because it's analogous to samurai. How do languages like German and Italian handle ambiguous Japanese terms?

Duh, through articles. El samurai (singular) / Los samurai (plural). Probably the same in German (Der/die).

[Liep]

En samurai / samuraierne

Very simple. But they stopped translating the titles for some reason.

Episode IV: Et nyt håb (1977) - A New Hope
Episode V: Imperiet slår igen (1980) - The Empire strikes back
Episode VI: Jediridderen vender tilbage (1983) - The Jedi Knight Returns
Episode I: Den usynlige fjende (1999) - The Invisible Enemy
Episode II: Klonernes angreb (2002) - Attack of the Clones
Episode III: Sith-fyrsternes hævn (2005) - The Sith Lords Revenge
Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015) [Kraften Vækkes - fan translation]
Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (2017)
Episode IX (2019)

[Valmy]

Danish...total disaster.

[HVC]

Danish...total disaster.

They're just throwing a bunch of letters together and waiting to see what happens.

[Tonitrus]

Die Dunkle Bedrohung

Sounds perverted.  Or what you do to a donut.

[Syt]

[Admiral Yi]

They're just throwing a bunch of letters together and waiting to see what happens.

They're stringing together random sounds to fool the tourists.

[viper37]

La Guerra de las Galaxias - The War of the Galaxies (yeah I know, makes no sense since there's only one galaxy).
El Imperio Contraataca - The Empire Strikes Back
El Retorno del Jedi - The Return of the Jedi (singular)
La Amenaza Fantasma - The Phantom Menace
El Ataque de los Clones - The Attack of the Clones
La Venganza de los Sith - The Revenge of the Sith (plural)
El Despertar de la Fuerza - The Awakening of The Force

what about Rogue One?

[celedhring]

La Guerra de las Galaxias - The War of the Galaxies (yeah I know, makes no sense since there's only one galaxy).
El Imperio Contraataca - The Empire Strikes Back
El Retorno del Jedi - The Return of the Jedi (singular)
La Amenaza Fantasma - The Phantom Menace
El Ataque de los Clones - The Attack of the Clones
La Venganza de los Sith - The Revenge of the Sith (plural)
El Despertar de la Fuerza - The Awakening of The Force

what about Rogue One?

They didn't translate it. Can't think of any translation that wouldn't sound silly anyway.