30 Words From Other Languages That Have No English Equivalent

It’s 3:51am and I’m doing that right now!

It just means early morning this must be a cultural meaning in some dialect, not Arabic

I love new words no matter what language they come from.

Well, we're obviously keeping this one.

Oh I love this one.

Ooo, we have this in welsh! Cwtch (pronounced cutch) also means a small cupboard under the stairs and what you say to tell a dog to go to bed .... yeah i know!

To be used when someone is "chipil", which means something similar to fussy and could be because you're sad, melancholic, or simply fed up.

This most be the best word in the world right now ❤️ we need this!

Necesito que alguien me apapache.

The Dutch word for a hug is the same word that is used for a cuddly toy like a teddy bear: knuffel and it remains one of the best Dutch words I ever learned x

In English, we have the word, "government."

Reminds me of: Betty bought some butter, but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought some better butter, to make the bitter butter better, but the bitter butter made the better butter bitter 😉

(Edit:was too eager to mention "bear's favour" but it had its own entry on the list, never mind! :D )

Boy, I have many situations where that was the case.

That one applies to my husband! 😁

積読. Reading books and buying books are separate hobbies! If you fall into this trap often, switch to using the library. The time limit will spur you on to read more!

Guilty, condemned, and sentenced.

Wow, is there a japanese word for when it's yarn instead of books?? Asking for a friend :)

Guilty as charged

My Kindle agrees with this!

Yes! They shouldn't be understood as mutually exclusive. Hawaiian language did it right.

Nice to see one kama'aina on dis site. Plenny peopo ova hea no can speak propa English. I wen grow up speaking lidat. Is one dying language yeah?

Did someone forget or just not know of “noblesse oblige”? English has become the sort of de facto language because first, we were invaded by pretty much everyone except the Greeks and Spartaca. Then we continued the tradition of invasion. Apparently, English is the most easy language to speak in pidgin and we’ll all do our best to figure out what you want to say. But it’s one of the most idiosyncratic languages when it comes to exceptions.

Like voting!!

Makes perfect sense.

I have this happen a lot at work when I get depressed and lonely working from home.

Oral fixation?

This word and the other japanese book word basically sums up my entire life

One of the Americans trying not to do thar

The english word for that is ”politician”

Ukrainian saying I find rather amusing Най тебе качка копне!- may you be kicked by a duck 🦆

In danish we have almost the same, but not about the face, but about a person: øretæveindbydende

Trum*

the cheks have a similar word for a "face that cries out for a fist"

I recently accomplished the fixing of Kabelsalat. Unhooked everything here at my desk, rerouted everything, set it back up, and it worked. ( ! ) But I bet my cords in other places are tangling up in revenge.

In IT talk, it's "who the hell made this mess?"

Wollkotze when you wool is tangled and you have barely a chance to save it ("wool vomit")

Exactly how mine always look

In Dutch we call that kabelspaghetti (cable spaghetti)

Wat mutt, dat mutt.

Intestinal fortitude.