le mer estebe serene.

Question

i just want to know what it means

Answer 1

lE mEr EstEbE sErEnE!!!!!! Look!!!all with the same vowel,is a joke.Trastation La mar estaba serena"The sea is calm"

Answer 2

It could mean that it's French rather than Spanish.

le mer is the sea in French. I would imagine that serene is a cognate.

The sea was calm would be my guess, but I know no French.

La mer is the sea and there is no verb like estebe in French. - lorenzo9, Jan 13, 2010

Answer 3

Welcome to the forum!

This is a little jingle that is sung by small children in some Spanish speaking countries (Argentina, for sure) to play with vowel sounds.

They start out with "La mar estaba serena...serena estaba la mar", (in English: The sea was clam...calm was the sea) with the correct vowels. They then repeat the stanza 5 times, each time substituting all of the vowels with either "a", "e", "i" "o" or "u". So, by the 5th repetition everyone is singing "Lu mur ustubu surunu...", etc. The after all the vowels are gone through, the correct pronunciation is sung as the grand finale.

It is quite hilarious, and usually the little kids are rolling all over the place by the end, enjoying ll the silly sounds.

So what you have asked about is the stanza in which all the vowels have been substituted with the "e".

When my children were small, we finished the song using the vowels in their right order: "La mer istobu sareni, soruna estibo lu mar, le mir ostuba serino, surane istobu la mer ¡li mor!" - Blanca_Gonzalez, Jan 13, 2010

There is another famous song used to play in this way which says "Cuando Fernando VII usaba paletó, cuando Fernando VII usaba paletó, las damas de la corte usaban polisón, ¡polisón!, usaban polisón". The first verse goes: "Canda Farnanda sáptama asaba pal - Blanca_Gonzalez, Jan 13, 2010

Answer 4

Perhaps you meant "el mar" which means "the sea"?

Then, it would mean: The sea is calm.

estebe is probably estuvo or estaba so "was" calm. - 0074b507, Jan 13, 2010

oh right :) forgot about that part ^^ - Grace90, Jan 13, 2010