People Are Sharing Hilarious Literal Translations, And Here Are 30 Of The Best Ones

Toadstool after all, right? (:

Finnish = knowledge machine

Ahahahah! This is true for Croatian too. ♥

Dutch: prickly pig

WHAT

Lithuanian: tanned leather wing

Chinese: shadow baton and shadow tunnel

Lol so a vegan would be dairy meat denier

Ahahahah! True. Interestingly, the cooked / prepared fish has a completely different Sino-Korean word. (Like the difference between "pig" and "pork" in English)

Aww

Chinese: Sea Female

Danish is worse.

I've always called them sleeping policemen and I'm British English...

The term 'whisky' derives originally from the Gaelic 'uisge beatha', or 'usquebaugh', meaning 'water of life'. Gaelic is the branch of Celtic spoken in the Highlands of Scotland.

Same in Dutch

wait is this a proverb or an actual word they have?

Well it's true at least

You can say it in German too. It’s either Kartoffel or Erdapfel

Afrikaans: You are still wet behind the ears.

In Irish, it's written "claoaoaoghdghhn nibhmhaoagdh". :D

If you literally translate "pineapple" in French it become "pomme de pin", which translated back in English means "pine cone".

In Croatian we call him either Christmas Grandpa or Frost Grandpa.

Argentina: "Vaquita de San Antonio" (Saint Anthony's little cow).

Reminds me of Obvious Plant funny-fake...e5b958.jpg

Korean: "Oh, f**k! So sudden!" ♥

I can see why German isn't the international language of romance! Nipple isn't much better, though, to be honest!

Hungarian: Arra ne varrjál gombot. (Don't sew a button on that.)

Same in Dutch (sinaasappel or appelsien) and from Dutch (as far as I know) it was borrowed into many languages, including Russian.

Hungarian has it better: house of sickness!!!

I've never in my Hispanic life heard someone showering with an artichoke.. this is maybe from a very specific country or region, and not part of the common Spanish language, I think.

Same goes for wrist. ♥

In Croatian: self-mover (ha! We predicted the future! ♥)

English: dragon Japanese: dragon English: dinosaur Japanese: fear dragon

Is it me, or does German just get to the point of what the thing is...?

Same in Portuguese. Funny thing is rollercoaster in Russian is American slides.

"butterfly" itself sounds rather weird to non-native English spreakers

The Mexican Spanish version sounds less vulgar

Greek: old lady's hair

POTATOES! BOIL EM MASH EM PUT EM IN A STEW

sounds more like a gooseberry to me

In italian it's "golden apple".

Great word actual. Very direct:)

Dutch: anti-bite 👌

What on Earth are the Norwegians doing with tadpoles?

And hospital: sick house And nurse: sick sister!

English: Hello Chinese: You Good

Dutch: slaughter sacrifice

Cantonese: electric brain

He's still called Leðurblökumaðurinn in Iceland... (The leather flap man)

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What is an expectation goose??

In Finnish too, you can say it's raining water, it's raining snow, it's raining sleet

Oxygen translated from Greek means acid-producer so Germans just translated the name. Same with Finnish, happihappo.

Persian: same word for leg and foot. Also same word for hand and arm.

Same in Polish

aaww that sweet.

Same in Finnish

Also small pigeons in spanish

Chinese: water mother

Chinese and Japanese: sugar pee disease.

Sea dog is seal in Dutch...

Side note: Candy floss was invented by a dentist - and the conspiracy is revealed!

Same in Cantonese

In Dutch it is Fly Field (vliegveld)

same here in Indonesia!

Dutch: With the clock’s direction

In Danish the mare rides you. You literally say "I've had the mare riding me". The mare being a being that takes you sexually against your will - and giving you evil dreams as a result.

French: lost bread