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“My Native Language Doesn’t Have The Word For It”: 35 People Share What Words In Foreign Languages They Absolutely Love Using
Every language boasts words that are one of a kind. While certain ones are easier to pronounce, others might make a foreigner sound like Pink Panther trying to buy a dam-burrr-gheur. Some, though, are charming because they are oddly specific. For instance, the Japanese word for a lonely mouth (kuchisabishii) or the Finnish one describing a person drinking in his underwear in just several syllables (kalsarikännit).
Here at Bored Panda, we have gathered some of these fascinating linguistic gems for you to read. Shared by the r/AskReddit community members, they might be something you want to add to your vocabulary.
If you enjoy learning about unique terminology, don’t miss the chance to browse the list of times people were confused by the English language for some more entertaining content about languages.
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#1
Komorebi (木漏れ日)
Japanese for sunlight that shines through trees. I like the sound of the word but also the fact that a word for such a concept exists in the first place.
Rosalie Dann 1 year ago
Yes, I love Dappled. So poetic. You can also have a dappled horse. 😊
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Micah Sean 1 year ago
As a gamer I call them godrays. As an atheist I call them spaghetti monster rays
Na Schi 1 year ago
I might want to beg to differ: "Zwielicht" address this unique play of light (mostly in summer) when the sun has (almost) set but the sky still shines in a unique orange/pink/violet tones... making you kind of nostalgic and longing. Another use for ""Zwielicht" is a more dark one: like those 'film noir' movies or that 80s esthetic where light shines though big fans slowly moving in the background. Anyway, "Zwielicht" is not really a word when describing a walk through the forrest in spring time and seeing the light peeking trough trees when entering a clearing.
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Marilyn Russell 1 year ago
Well, I like that word so maybe I can teach my brain to remember it the next time the sun does shine beautifully through the trees in the forest behind my house-komorebi.
FourTrenchcoatsInaTrenchcoat 1 year ago
I need some help, Pandas! I used to be ThreeTrenchcoatsInaTrenchcoat but i can't log into that account! Was I banned or something? When i try to say forgot password it says my email address is invalid! Please help <3
XenoMurph 1 year ago
Have you tried logging in through google or another app, if thats how you signed up?
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According to Ethnologue, there are currently over seven thousand languages, however, more than half of the world’s population only use 23 of them. Sadly, as much as 40% of the languages are spoken by less than a thousand people, which puts them on the endangered list.
Data from 2022 shows that out of the 23 languages, the most popular one is English, followed by Mandarin Chinese. The third on the list is Hindi, then Spanish, and French taking fifth place by a thread, as Standard Arabic is left a close sixth.
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#2
Saudade - Portuguese for 'a nostalgic longing for something that no longer exists and knowing that it may never return'. What a lovely word.
Gaya Knust 1 year ago
Not quite correct the explanation. Saudade can also mean (and this is the most common definitionvactually) missing someone or something you haven't seen/had for a long time, but still exists. For example, you haven't seen you best friend for months, so you miss them, you have saudade. Or even have saudade (ter saudade) of eating your favourite apple pie, for example.
#3
Verschlimmbesserung - German noun for an attempted improvement that only makes things worse
In some countries, citizens speak more than one language. This is true for some countries in Europe, such as Switzerland, Luxembourg, or Belgium, and beyond—South Africa and India, for instance. But one of them stands out from the rest. The country with the most languages is Papua New Guinea with an astonishing number of nearly 850.
Home to such a variety of speech, the country has a population of fewer than 9.5 million people. A large part of it comprises indigenous groups, some of which have less than a thousand people speaking their mother tongue. Unfortunately, that puts these exceptional languages in danger of disappearing.
#4
kalsarikännit - originating in Finland, in which the drinker consumes alcoholic drinks at home, dressed in as little clothing as possible, mainly in underwear with no intention of going out.
#5
It is a phrase not a word, but in Italian, to say "I love you", you usually say "ti voglio bene", which literally means "I want well for you". In english "love" means so many different things and I feel like this idea "I want well for you" encapsulates what love really means.
Papua New Guinea alone has 35 times more languages than there are official ones in the European Union. However, Europe has more than the 24 official ones that can be seen on the EU documents.
The continent is home to roughly 200 languages, ranging from well-known English, Spanish, and French, to the less widely-represented ones, such as Basque, Gaelic, or Flemish. Based on the number of native speakers, the most popular one in Europe is Russian, followed by German, French, and Italian. English takes fifth place for the number of native speakers, however, it is the golden prize winner when it comes to learning a second language.
#6
Água-Viva (Brazil/Portuguese), it’s jellyfish but if you translate it word by word it means “alive-water”.
#7
Meerschweinchen, it’s German for Guinea Pigs, I like it because it literally means “little sea pigs”. Which makes no sense.
#8
Tokidoki - “sometimes” in Japanese, just really fun to say lol
English is currently the lingua franca of the world, however, knowing other languages can open a lot of doors as well. You can get better acquainted with certain cultures as it enables you to communicate with the locals. It can also be useful at work or going through lists of funny foreign words, some of which might be familiar if you’re bilingual or multilingual. Recent data shows that around 43% of the world’s population is bilingual.
#9
kuchisabishii (Japanese). Kuchi means mouth and sabishii means lonely. Kuchisabishii means you're longing to put something on your mouth - essentially the feeling you have when you eat something (or chew on your nails or pencil) because your mouth feels bored.
#11
"wihajster" (pronounced: vee-hay-ster) in Polish, which is a placeholder, when you don't know what some object is or what it does. It comes from German "wie heißt er?" (“what's it called?”).
Some languages are considered easier to learn than others. Among the most difficult ones, you might often see Mandarin, Arabic, or Korean. These tongue-twisting systems of words feature a distinctive set of rules or other subtleties that make grasping them quite a quest.
For instance, Mandarin is a tonal language, which means it relies heavily on intonation. The same sound usually has four different transcriptions and meanings, depending on how the voice is used. Arabic is no easier as it usually features four different ways of writing every letter and reads from right to left, unlike most of the other languages. Korean is a challenge on its own as it is an isolate, meaning it does not belong to any larger family of languages.
#12
Papillon. Means butterfly in french and its fun to say
#13
Myötähäpeä
That’s Finish for secondhand embarrassment. My native language doesn’t have the word for it so I use myotahapea instead.
LillieMean 1 year ago
Of course, that word has a more beautiful sister myötätunto which means compassion.
#14
Yalla in Arabic means hurry up let's go or right now depending how you use it
Mari Mar Pinta 1 year ago
That's something! My Grampa from my Mom's side always says "HALLA HALLA!" and for the very same reasons too! And we're Puerto Rican! 🤭
There are believed to be around 142 language families in the world. Some of the most popular ones include Niger-Congo (which has 1536 languages), Austronesian (with 1225), Trans New-Guinea (with 476), Sino-Tibetan (456), Indo-European (447 languages), and Afro-Asiatic (369).
#15
Die!!!!
It means stop/ enough in Hebrew.
My kids yell it at anything/one that frustrates them.
#16
Ikigai - lit. The Fruit of Life (in Japanese).
It is the philosophy of how to live a good life, it's elements and how to exercise them.
Lissah Mackenzie 1 year ago (edited)
"Kaizen" is a Japanese philosophy where each day is an opportunity to improve, even if it's just by a little
#17
*Lebensmüde* - Lebensmüde is a compound noun made up of the words Leben (life) and müde (tired). It, therefore, translates to 'life tired' and describes the feeling of being tired or weary.
Sonja 1 year ago
This is wrong. It describes a person showing risky behaviour that could cause them to get seriously harmed. It has nothing to do with being tired. For example a person balancing on a chair on top of a desk to change a lightbulb could cause someone to exclaim: are you lebensmüde? Come down there! It's used similarly to the exclamation: are you nuts? When witnessing risky and life threatening behaviour.
A smaller family of languages—known as Dravidian—boasts 24 of them, one of which is considered to be one of the oldest languages still spoken today. It is called Tamil and is used by over 85 million native speakers, mostly in India, Sri Lanka, and Singapore. Other ancient languages used to this day include but are not limited to Sanskrit, Hebrew, Egyptian, and Greek.
#18
puto
sometimes it's rice
sometimes it's swear
you'll never know
#19
My favorite word or phrase really, is "Oh la, la, c'est cher"–which means, "Oh my, it's expensive," in French. It was one of the first phrases I learned in middle school when I started taking French as an elective. When I went home and shared with my mom what I learned, she was so amused by how the alarming phrase sounded. She couldn't stop laughing.T his led to her constantly asking me to repeat it whenever we were in the presence of her friends, and I milked it. This is one of my treasured memories of my mother.
Mani Lacao 1 year ago
The "Oh la la la" is quite a stereotype, it's used but really not as much as people believe. People would rather say "Putain c'est cher"
#20
“Tabarnak!” I love how, instead of being bodily-function based like English swear words, French Canadian sacres are mostly related to Catholicism. This one is my favourite as it’s the rough equivalent of the versatile “f**k” swear in English, so many uses.
WindySwede 1 year ago
Well Pandas, use this instead of the ordinary english swear words? To stop the censoring? :)
Even though unique languages are something to be cherished, there is a way to connect with the rest of the world using only one foreign one. Created by a Polish doctor Ludwig L. Zamenhof back in 1887, Esperanto is a universal language, which is politically and socially neutral. It does not belong to any country or ethnicity, and is believed to be easy to learn due to its uncomplicated structure and straightforward phonetics. According to Esperanto.net, there are roughly two million speakers in the world.
#22
sanguagsuga - “blood-sucker” leech or bed bug in italian. can be used to describe a person too.
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 1 year ago
In Spanish we say "sanguijuela". And it is used as a insult, too...
#23
oiseaux
its french for "birds" and none of it is pronounced the way it looks like it should
Another unique language enabling more people to communicate is sign language. Based on physical movements, such as hand gestures, grimaces, and pointing, it allows people to carry out a conversation when it’s not possible to do so verbally. There are around 300 sign languages worldwide, as they differ depending on the country or region where they are used.
#26
Kunst.
To an English ear, it sounds distinctly uncultured but it means 'art'
There's a heck of a lot of Deutsche in this list.
Edda Kamphues 1 year ago
Try teaching a bunch of 12-year-olds the German words for 'school subjects'. Firstly 'school subject' is: Fach. We largely use the plural: "Fächer'. Usually entices less snorting laughter.
As if learning certain languages wasn’t difficult enough, they often comprise dialects that vary depending on the region as well. And dealing with some of them might be quite a pickle. For example, you might think you know British English, but talking to someone with a Geordie dialect can throw you off guard nevertheless. Such instances might require a minute or two (or an hour, to be fair) to get accustomed to the slightly different version.
Defining the number of dialects is not an easy task to do as some of them might be considered languages on their own. However, Chinese, for instance, is believed to have eight different ones, while Arabic boasts over 25 dialects.
#29
Lebensabschnittpartner = Lover or Partner *lit. The Person I am with Today*
Estrella = Star
積ん読 = Acquiring books and letting them pile up unread
Languages are fascinating in so many ways. What seems like a simple form of communication is actually so complex and intricate, it might take ages to learn one. Even then, can you ever really say you know a language? Whether it’s our mother tongue or a foreign concept we’re trying to grasp, both might feature certain words we are still unfamiliar with. And, without a shade of doubt, all languages have words that are worth adding to this list.
#30
Kitanai, or dirty in Japanese. It’s amusing to say at any minor mess like a disappointed mom
#31
chèri
which translates to “darling” in english. idk why i love that term so much it sounds so sexy omg
#32
When I was a kid, the first Xbox 360 game I ever got was a Spanish copy of Halo 3 (I don't speak Spanish). At the beginning of the campaign, the characters keep saying "careful" over and over again. Because of this, "cuidado" has become one of my favorite Spanish words, and the voice they used has become my default voice to say other Spanish words. My other favorite has to be "resbaloso". A large, exaggerated r roll and a boisterous tone just makes this one of the most fun words to say in any language.
#33
English
*Serendipity*
D'harawal (an Australian Aboriginal language)
*Wurunin* (joy)
Spanish
*Cucaracha* (cockroack) - because of the song
Italian
*Dolcemente* (gently)
German
*Gemütlichkeit* (cosiness and contentment)*
**Updated below*
French
*Soixante-dix* (seventy)
Turkish
*Kesinlikle!* (exactly!)
Indonesian
*Terima kasih* (thanks)
Singlish
*Can* (both a question and a statement)
Arabic
*Wallah Wallah* (I swear!)
Russian
*я машина!* 'Ya mashina!' [(I'm the Machine!)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paG1-lPtIXA)
#35
Cacahuete means peanut in French. I like saying it;)
What do you think ?
Appalachian Panda 1 year ago
I know BP sometimes likes to stick a new title on old articles, but ... A lot of these aren't "my language doesn't have a word for that," they're just the term for a thing in another language.
Stefan 1 year ago
Yes... The title should be changed to "words people find pretty in other languages" or something...
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Szirra 1 year ago
„Fernweh“ - A longing for distant places. Which is why wherever you go you will find a German tourist.
jenjie.newt 1 year ago
How is schadenfreude not on this list? (pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune)
Agnes Jekyll 1 year ago
Yes! it translates into "shameful joy" (I was told)
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Dynein 1 year ago
My favorite word of my own native language: Innerer Schweinehund. Literally "inner pig-dog". It means something like "the inner part of yourself that is lazy and prefers comfort". It's the part of you that doesn't want to go on errands in the rain and causes you to procrastinate on household chores. I love it that we turned this into a distinct animal.
Pixie 1 year ago
Mine also growls menacingly at me when I think about doing some sports 🛋️
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Eastendbird 1 year ago
Uk too. In fact, I hate to break it to you but most other countries call it aubergine!
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Stardust she/her 1 year ago
For some reason, I like the Polish phrase “zginiemy” which translates to “we will die”
Pan Paweł 1 year ago
Well, that is quite odd :) There is a phrase in Polish, used when everything goes really wrong: "Cześć, giniemy!" ("Bye, we are dying!"). That phrase were last words of pilot, of passanger plane that crashed near Warsaw ~40 years ago.
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Miss Frankfurter 1 year ago
Many of these are something I’m going to write down, memorize, and start using. Also, German has some really long words!
Deseree Doherty 1 year ago
High school Spanish vocabulary word - rascacielos - skyscraper in Spanish - was told the literal translation is sky scratcher
Jess-a-men 1 year ago
Juoksentelisinkohan... finnish for "I wonder if I should run around aimlessly".
RoanTheMad 1 year ago
"Vahingonilo" aka, the Finnish equivalent of the german word "Schadenfreude" , which is, to take pleasure from someone elses misfortune.
Anton Swanepoel 1 year ago
In Afrikaans they have one word: grondboontjiebottertoebroodjie for "peanut butter sandwich"
Gertrude Lee 1 year ago
Büstenhalter, the brassiere in Germany. Nothing says keep your titties in a bra like halting the ample bosom!
Rosalie Dann 1 year ago
More like reining them in, like a halter on a horse. A halter for your boobs
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ecco 1 year ago
i’ve said this before but welsh has more vowels than english (w and y). just because you’re unfamiliar with a language doesn’t mean it doesn’t make sense, some people really need to get their heads round the fact that there are other languages that use the latin alphabet than english
I can't think of a good name 1 year ago
La. Not sure what language, but sort of a 'oh well that's life'
Mystery Egg 1 year ago
Hiraeth (Welsh). No direct English translation but it means homesickness specifically for Wales. Not homesickness in general, but literally only for Wales and things lost in the past in Wales.
lenka 1 year ago (edited)
Gezelig . Dutch. Roughly it means cosy, social and pleasant or fun but it encapsulates so much more that you can't really translate it. A small party with a group, a cup or tea with a friend, a picnic, a romantic dinner, a day out shopping, a cosy fire, or three friends cramped in the back of a VW mini are all 'gezelig'.
Tacet 1 year ago
From Deutsch. Kummerspeck. Grief bacon. The weight you gain from eating when sad. & Backpfeifengesicht. A face badly in need of a fist. From Russian Razbliuto. The feelings you have towards a person whom you nolonger love. Cornish. Dreckly. A point at sometime in the future. Scottish. Tartle. That pause when you are introducing someone because you realise you can't remember their name.
Ahimsa Soul 1 year ago
I'm surprised no Hindi words! And was surprised of how many German words. I like quite a few: "onomatopeia" words that sound like sounds, the always hopeful "oxalá", "ojalá"
BluEyedSeoulite 1 year ago
Kkakdoogee!! Korean word for the spicy pickled radish. 깍두기 is just so fun to say! Yummy too
Sapna Sarfare 1 year ago
Juggad is the ultimate word from Hindi... It means to adapt or adjust something and make it better or workable... Indians are the masters of Juggad
Anna Svanlund 1 year ago
Lagom - the Swedish word for "just the right amount". A very good way of describing Swedish people.
Sonja 1 year ago
Flight-port, for those who want the direct translation. It's an airport.
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sneksneksnek 1 year ago
Popty ping, Welsh for microwave oven . ( I might have spelt it wrong, I'm still learning Welsh)
ecco 1 year ago
you've spelt it correctly, but most people say meicrodon, popty ping is more of a joke or sland and literally means 'ping oven'
Load More Replies... Pandorica Who 1 year ago
gigil - filipino for an intense urge to pinch or squeeze someone due to their cuteness
Dutchman Callypso 1 year ago
"Prozvonit" in Czech language - to call someone without the intent of them picking up. Mainly used when someone can't find their phone, or if you go out with someone and want them to know you just arrived in front of their house.
Susie Elle 1 year ago
"Gezellig" - a word to describe the situation/feeling of being with good company in a nice setting having a good time.
Kevin Felton 1 year ago
I used to play online with this German engineer and he told us once that they have a word that specifically means "someone whose bad at math" (I forget what the word was). The other guy (who was Welsh) and I started laughing and saying "of course there's a German word for that." 😄
Momo Skarsgard 1 year ago
I like the word Aubergine instead of eggplant like we call it in the states.
Valerie Lessard 1 year ago
I learned "lamtumirê" from Albanian. Roughly translated to a bittersweet goodbye for lovers
️️Upvote faery️ 1 year ago
The title of this article does not go with the posts made. Very misleading
Bored Birgit 1 year ago
Did I read " shenanigans" on this list? I really really love this word. No exact german word for it.
Agnes Jekyll 1 year ago
My favourites are "grief bacon" in German (for the weight you gain after a breakup) and Cree for hippopotamus which translates into “great, thick-skinned, big-thighed, big-mouthed, two-toothed, underwater swimming pig”
RedPanda 1 year ago
My sisters and I borrow insults from other languages when we argue. Here are some (disclaimer: I will butcher the spelling): baka or aho (idiot in Japanese), backpfeifengesicht (a face in need of a slap in German), estúpido (stupid in Spanish), stupide (stupid in French), you absolute pinecone (British lol), and recently they’ve been calling me some Korean word but I haven’t figured it out yet.
BluEyedSeoulite 1 year ago
Write it, I'll let you know. If I haven't heard them all, there is a book called Making Out in Korean, it has a whole chapter of insults. It's a series, plenty of ammo lmao
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Appalachian Panda 1 year ago
I know BP sometimes likes to stick a new title on old articles, but ... A lot of these aren't "my language doesn't have a word for that," they're just the term for a thing in another language.
Stefan 1 year ago
Yes... The title should be changed to "words people find pretty in other languages" or something...
Load More Replies... Szirra 1 year ago
„Fernweh“ - A longing for distant places. Which is why wherever you go you will find a German tourist.
jenjie.newt 1 year ago
How is schadenfreude not on this list? (pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune)
Agnes Jekyll 1 year ago
Yes! it translates into "shameful joy" (I was told)
Load More Replies... Dynein 1 year ago
My favorite word of my own native language: Innerer Schweinehund. Literally "inner pig-dog". It means something like "the inner part of yourself that is lazy and prefers comfort". It's the part of you that doesn't want to go on errands in the rain and causes you to procrastinate on household chores. I love it that we turned this into a distinct animal.
Pixie 1 year ago
Mine also growls menacingly at me when I think about doing some sports 🛋️
Load More Replies... Eastendbird 1 year ago
Uk too. In fact, I hate to break it to you but most other countries call it aubergine!
Load More Replies... Stardust she/her 1 year ago
For some reason, I like the Polish phrase “zginiemy” which translates to “we will die”
Pan Paweł 1 year ago
Well, that is quite odd :) There is a phrase in Polish, used when everything goes really wrong: "Cześć, giniemy!" ("Bye, we are dying!"). That phrase were last words of pilot, of passanger plane that crashed near Warsaw ~40 years ago.
Load More Replies... Miss Frankfurter 1 year ago
Many of these are something I’m going to write down, memorize, and start using. Also, German has some really long words!
Deseree Doherty 1 year ago
High school Spanish vocabulary word - rascacielos - skyscraper in Spanish - was told the literal translation is sky scratcher
Jess-a-men 1 year ago
Juoksentelisinkohan... finnish for "I wonder if I should run around aimlessly".
RoanTheMad 1 year ago
"Vahingonilo" aka, the Finnish equivalent of the german word "Schadenfreude" , which is, to take pleasure from someone elses misfortune.
Anton Swanepoel 1 year ago
In Afrikaans they have one word: grondboontjiebottertoebroodjie for "peanut butter sandwich"
Gertrude Lee 1 year ago
Büstenhalter, the brassiere in Germany. Nothing says keep your titties in a bra like halting the ample bosom!
Rosalie Dann 1 year ago
More like reining them in, like a halter on a horse. A halter for your boobs
Load More Replies... ecco 1 year ago
i’ve said this before but welsh has more vowels than english (w and y). just because you’re unfamiliar with a language doesn’t mean it doesn’t make sense, some people really need to get their heads round the fact that there are other languages that use the latin alphabet than english
I can't think of a good name 1 year ago
La. Not sure what language, but sort of a 'oh well that's life'
Mystery Egg 1 year ago
Hiraeth (Welsh). No direct English translation but it means homesickness specifically for Wales. Not homesickness in general, but literally only for Wales and things lost in the past in Wales.
lenka 1 year ago (edited)
Gezelig . Dutch. Roughly it means cosy, social and pleasant or fun but it encapsulates so much more that you can't really translate it. A small party with a group, a cup or tea with a friend, a picnic, a romantic dinner, a day out shopping, a cosy fire, or three friends cramped in the back of a VW mini are all 'gezelig'.
Tacet 1 year ago
From Deutsch. Kummerspeck. Grief bacon. The weight you gain from eating when sad. & Backpfeifengesicht. A face badly in need of a fist. From Russian Razbliuto. The feelings you have towards a person whom you nolonger love. Cornish. Dreckly. A point at sometime in the future. Scottish. Tartle. That pause when you are introducing someone because you realise you can't remember their name.
Ahimsa Soul 1 year ago
I'm surprised no Hindi words! And was surprised of how many German words. I like quite a few: "onomatopeia" words that sound like sounds, the always hopeful "oxalá", "ojalá"
BluEyedSeoulite 1 year ago
Kkakdoogee!! Korean word for the spicy pickled radish. 깍두기 is just so fun to say! Yummy too
Sapna Sarfare 1 year ago
Juggad is the ultimate word from Hindi... It means to adapt or adjust something and make it better or workable... Indians are the masters of Juggad
Anna Svanlund 1 year ago
Lagom - the Swedish word for "just the right amount". A very good way of describing Swedish people.
Sonja 1 year ago
Flight-port, for those who want the direct translation. It's an airport.
Load More Replies... sneksneksnek 1 year ago
Popty ping, Welsh for microwave oven . ( I might have spelt it wrong, I'm still learning Welsh)
ecco 1 year ago
you've spelt it correctly, but most people say meicrodon, popty ping is more of a joke or sland and literally means 'ping oven'
Load More Replies... Pandorica Who 1 year ago
gigil - filipino for an intense urge to pinch or squeeze someone due to their cuteness
Dutchman Callypso 1 year ago
"Prozvonit" in Czech language - to call someone without the intent of them picking up. Mainly used when someone can't find their phone, or if you go out with someone and want them to know you just arrived in front of their house.
Susie Elle 1 year ago
"Gezellig" - a word to describe the situation/feeling of being with good company in a nice setting having a good time.
Kevin Felton 1 year ago
I used to play online with this German engineer and he told us once that they have a word that specifically means "someone whose bad at math" (I forget what the word was). The other guy (who was Welsh) and I started laughing and saying "of course there's a German word for that." 😄
Momo Skarsgard 1 year ago
I like the word Aubergine instead of eggplant like we call it in the states.
Valerie Lessard 1 year ago
I learned "lamtumirê" from Albanian. Roughly translated to a bittersweet goodbye for lovers
️️Upvote faery️ 1 year ago
The title of this article does not go with the posts made. Very misleading
Bored Birgit 1 year ago
Did I read " shenanigans" on this list? I really really love this word. No exact german word for it.
Agnes Jekyll 1 year ago
My favourites are "grief bacon" in German (for the weight you gain after a breakup) and Cree for hippopotamus which translates into “great, thick-skinned, big-thighed, big-mouthed, two-toothed, underwater swimming pig”
RedPanda 1 year ago
My sisters and I borrow insults from other languages when we argue. Here are some (disclaimer: I will butcher the spelling): baka or aho (idiot in Japanese), backpfeifengesicht (a face in need of a slap in German), estúpido (stupid in Spanish), stupide (stupid in French), you absolute pinecone (British lol), and recently they’ve been calling me some Korean word but I haven’t figured it out yet.
BluEyedSeoulite 1 year ago
Write it, I'll let you know. If I haven't heard them all, there is a book called Making Out in Korean, it has a whole chapter of insults. It's a series, plenty of ammo lmao
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