"Once upon a time" in Different Languages

I am sorry ,chinese and english are in differnt language systems.When opening stories ,we always say "?????"or"??".,that mean"once upon a time"in english .hehe.

This is a funny one

Where I grew up as a child it was: Arabian night? Entertainment.

Es war einmal... vor nicht allzu langer Zeit da begab es sich, daß ein holder Knabe ... (just the first three words at the beginning, I was just thinking about something that could follow the introduction :D)

In Hiligaynon "sang una nga tyempo" That's good to start a discussion like this. Happy lotting

Well in our language its called "Angana ganaga Oka Roju" which is basically the English equivalent of Once upon a time..... This is a line that makes a story intresting dont u think so? Once upon a time a King and so on.....

I think that most traditional stories begin with some kind of formula which means "Once upon a time" or "In days long ago" or "In days of yore". They nearly always suggest that what is being told happened many years ago and that the story is one that was told by the story-teller's ancestors and by their ancestors before them. Sometimes the formula is quite long and is almost a 'story' in itself but it is almost always a set formula which is really there to say "Here is a story worth listening to. Are you sitting comfortably and paying attention? Then I'll begin ..." You can even find a similar formula in the Bible in the words "In the beginning ..." because many of the stories in the Old Testament, especially, were passed on by word of mouth for thousands of years before they were ever collected and written down.

Hi, I think the way a story starts depends on the kind of story it is. In English, fairy tales start with, "In a land far, far, away." There are many different ways to start a story, based on the type of story and the writing style of the author.

I think in most stories it's the same: once upon a time or a long (long) time ago...