Captain_Tass Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 28 minutes ago, Alan Degas said: Perkele Oh, I was just thinking of that! Time to drop a random Greek word! "Πορδόβαζο". It means "fart jar". That's it. That's all. I'm really not using my language to its full potential, but hey. Oh, I also like the word "электроэнергя" in Russian. It means "electrical energy" (and it's also the name of a song from one of my favorite Russian bands, Конец Электроники) Link to post Share on other sites
i aced it Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 I like cuy. Spanish for guinea pig and it's just fun to say. Link to post Share on other sites
J. van Deijck Posted April 12, 2019 Share Posted April 12, 2019 On 11/1/2018 at 7:51 PM, Koning said: I love Dutch nouns ending with "ke" or "eke". The function of "ke/eke" is to change the regular noun into a diminutive. Whereas diminutives ending with "je", "tje" and "pje" are much more common, "ke/eke" sounds much sweeter. I especially like words ending in "ske", for example "hoekske" (=corner) or "meiske" (=girl). poesje 😂😍 Link to post Share on other sites
OtakuAce2004 Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 I like: ‘pamplemousse’ - French for grapefruit ’ornatrix’ - latin for hair dresser and I also like: 毛绒绒的 - mao rong rong de, Mandarin for fluffy and I love writing: 漂亮 - piao liang, Mandarin for beautiful Link to post Share on other sites
OtakuAce2004 Posted April 13, 2019 Share Posted April 13, 2019 Languages in general are just beautiful. ( 😂 well they can be). I love Mandarin and Japanese as the writing and pronunciation is just wonderful and I’d love to learn Irish. Link to post Share on other sites
GentlemanCambrioleur Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 Saudade. Beautiful word: Melancholy/nostalgia specific to a Portuguese/Brazilian temperament. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 16, 2019 Share Posted April 16, 2019 Squirrel its a native american word for a small rodent that lives in trees and is hard for Germans and Stephen Fry to pronounce. Link to post Share on other sites
Iam9man Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 “Tak”, which means “roof” in Norwegian, “thank you” in Danish and “yes” in Polish. Marvellous. Link to post Share on other sites
Asexual_Goddess Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 My favorite phrase is “Koonyah mahlyass koong!”, or you weak minded fool in huttese (Star Wars) Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 "Вам нужно решить три примера", or "You need to solve three examples". It's the first Russian phrase I learned to speak, thanks to a live-action parody of Baldi's Basics. Link to post Share on other sites
chairdesklamp Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 I don't have a favourite word per se, in any language I know a lot of words in, but I do find myself said "My native language (Japanese) has a single word for this, but (six-word term)" in English WAY more often than I say it going the other way (which is basically never). And you see how fluent my English is, it's just that Japanese has more words or something. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 I say 'Nani the fuck' more than I care to admit Link to post Share on other sites
Alan Degas Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 On 4/20/2019 at 5:41 PM, chairdesklamp said: I don't have a favourite word per se, in any language I know a lot of words in, but I do find myself said "My native language (Japanese) has a single word for this, but (six-word term)" in English WAY more often than I say it going the other way (which is basically never). And you see how fluent my English is, it's just that Japanese has more words or something. I have the opposite problem. My native language definitely has less words than English, so I find myself making embarassing mistakes like mixing up "rug", "carpet" and "blanket". They are all the same word in my native tongue but it doesn't sound close to any one of them. Link to post Share on other sites
Twisted Tempest Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 I love the Latin name for a Venus Fly Trap, "Dionea Muscipula". Link to post Share on other sites
CajunAce Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 Craciun Fericit -Romanian for Merry Christmas. Said this a lot when I went on a mission trip there. It's a fun word to say and pretty much the only thing I knew to say besides "thanks!", "hello", and "My name is..." ("mulțumesc", "salut", and "ma numesc...") Link to post Share on other sites
Meylnaerdbier Posted April 24, 2019 Share Posted April 24, 2019 Backpfeifengesicht = a German word for a face that really needs to be hit (it's pronounced like this: baah-k-pfei-fen-gez-icht (note: ch in German is pronounced the the sound that you make at the beginning of the word huge, if that even makes any sense)) Link to post Share on other sites
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