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Most Potent Potions

Simplified Chinese (Mandarin: China)
强力药剂
Qiánglì yàojì
强力 qiánglì = 'powerful'.
药剂 yàojì = 'medicament, drug'.
Powerful Potions
Traditional Chinese (Mandarin: Taiwan)
超強魔藥
Chāoqiáng móyào
chāoqiáng = 'super-strong'.
móyào = 'magic medicine'.
Super-strong Magic Medicines
Japanese
最も強力な薬
Mottomo kyōryoku na kusuri
最も mottomo = 'most'.
強力な kyōryoku na = 'powerful' (na links the adjective to the noun).
kusuri = 'medicine'.
Most Powerful Medicines
Vietnamese (Chinese characters show etymology)
Độc dược Tối hiệu nghiệm độc dược (毒藥) = 'poison medicine'.
tối () = 'most'.
hiệu nghiệm (效驗) = 'efficacious'.
Most Efficacious Medicines
Mongolian (old)
Хамгийн айхтар ханднууд
Khamgiin aikhtar khandnuud
  Most Frightful Potions
Mongolian (new)
Хүчтэй үйлчилгээтэй уусмал
Khuchtei üilchilgeetei uusmal
  Strong Efficacy Solutions

The choice of vocabulary represents the attempt of each translator to render the three elements of the English:

Most Potent

'Potent' is used to indicate that a medicine is powerful in its effect. 'Most' is to indicate that the potions are very or particularly powerful, not necessarily that they are the most powerful potions that can be found.

Potions

‘Potion' is a rather old-fashioned word for a liquid medicine, a poison medicine, or a miraculous medicine. The word chosen is different in each translation.

Category: Potions

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