"The English language takes what it wants, kind of like the England of languages" That line deserves an award.

@AuntieDawnsKitchen

Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of that delightful quote, “We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”

@jessicaclakley3691

Жыл бұрын

Glad I’m not the only one who loves that line lol

@Lucius1958

Жыл бұрын

@@taylorfusher2997 WTF does this have to do with the video? 🤨

@jordanbriskin238

Жыл бұрын

@@Lucius1958 Just report his reply as spam, like I've been doing.

@SamButler22

Жыл бұрын

No it was kinda confusing. Saying England and using UK flag for a start. Did she mean it's made up of multiple things like the UK is? Did she mean taking stuff like the British Empire did? Or did she really mean England? If so, I can't work out the reference

A recent one I learned was the Japanese "Chuunibyou" describing "early teens who have grandiose delusions, who desperately want to stand out, and who have convinced themselves that they have hidden knowledge or secret powers."

@phoenixfritzinger9185

Жыл бұрын

I’m amazed that I never came across that word during my early teens when I was both going through an enormous weeb phase but I was also considering converting to Wicca Chuuni can also be used as an adjective to describe something being like something that a Chuunibyou word do, like reading books by Silver Ravenwolf or attempting to develop psychic powers

@imightbebiased9311

Жыл бұрын

Well, when you raise a nation on decades of RPGs where no protagonist can be older than high-school age, what do you think they're going to believe? :D

@lessfriendlyJordies

Жыл бұрын

@@imightbebiased9311 I remember reading something that said this and the same trope in anime as actually being the cause of chuunibyou

@mfaizsyahmi

Жыл бұрын

A concept with a whole anime to explain it.

@retsevlys

Жыл бұрын

the word is a slang term literally meaning "2nd year of junior high sickness", because it is read as "中" for junior high, "二" for 2, and "病" meaning sickness or disease

Submitted for your approval: the German word "kummerspeck" which means the weight gained through emotional eating. The literal translation is "grief bacon". After the last few years, I think we can all identify with this word.

@waldtrautwald8499

Жыл бұрын

Good one! Speck in this context just means belly fat, so maybe a better translation would be something like "grief blubber". Also, in German you capitalize every noun, so it's Kummerspeck, not kummerspeck.

@KissMyFrog42

Жыл бұрын

@@waldtrautwald8499 Thank you! High school German class was a very long time ago.

@icankillbugs

Жыл бұрын

Why only in the past few years?

@foodofthegods

Жыл бұрын

**grief bacon**

@danielkover7157

Жыл бұрын

To be honest, I like the English translation better. Grief bacon! 😂

“Hiraeth” is a welsh word that means the longing for a place or time that no longer exists. Like a nostalgia for your childhood home, where people long departed still live. Something irretrievably lost.

@joshuapatrickvidal4954

Жыл бұрын

This word fittingly fits the situation of endangered languages

@gravy473

Жыл бұрын

Damn

@Mammutidae

Жыл бұрын

Ha I know that one as the title of a particular metal album

@Iemonic

Жыл бұрын

isnt that just nostalgia?

@chiliwithonel

Жыл бұрын

@@Iemonic i saw a tiktok specifically explaining hiraeth in the context of Welsh culture; for centuries Wales has been under the assimilatonist thumb of the British empire, and hiraeth describes longing for that long-lost cultural connection, without fear of oppression.

As an Indonesian, I think English should have a word for "we including you" and "we excluding you". In Indonesia we have the word "Kita" and "Kami" for these concepts. It is just much easier to understand in conversation

@Aman-qr6wi

Жыл бұрын

Its a linguistic semantic/syntax found in many languages, not unique to indonesian. Its called Clusivity. English can't even accept it because its a grammatical feature,not just a lexical semantics or word.

@kailomonkey

Жыл бұрын

I would like it in English. It is communicated by context which is basically have to understand the whole culture to understand which meaning is being used.

@oktabramantio4709

Жыл бұрын

@@Aman-qr6wi I only speak Indonesian and English. It would be stupid to claim something that I don't know. If you know other languages with the same concept, I think mentioning them would be a great idea

@zapstarfr

Жыл бұрын

Who cares bruv

@oktabramantio4709

Жыл бұрын

@@zapstarfr I mean you can literally read 2 comments above you, mentioned that he likes the concept to be integrated in English. And anyway, I was not asking for anyone's approval when suggesting this

I learned recently that Indian English has some unique words. One that I learned about was "prepone" as in the opposite of "postpone". So you could prepone a meeting from Tuesday to Monday.

@resourceress7

Жыл бұрын

I'm a US American, and I recently learned that Austrialian English has "behindhand." It means being in debt or late/behind on your payments. In my English dialect, we have "beforehand" (to describe something that occurs before something else), but not behindhand.

@loganl3746

Жыл бұрын

Prepone is such a good concept. Also, I just love this kind of thing! Similar to how in American English slang, we have "whelm", deriving from underwhelmed and overwhelmed. It's not actually a word in Modern English, but among people I've heard use it, it means "to bring about a mild reaction in a middle-ot-the-road kind of way. Not too much or too little. Satisfactory, in a good/genuine way. When something works as it's supposed to in a satisfying way"

@david13579naranja

Жыл бұрын

I have never used the word but I am surprised it isn't a more common thing. We have "preponer" in Spanish too. I just got so used to saying "move up" that it never occured to me to transliterate it from Spanish.

@KeivanHH

Жыл бұрын

The opposite of "to postpone" is "to anticipate"

@adrianblake8876

Жыл бұрын

@@KeivanHH Isn't "anticipate" synonymous with "expect", though!?

In brazilian portuguese, we have "cafuné", which means the act of moving your fingers through the hair of someone you love. It becomes even more special when you discover that this word was brought to our language all way from Africa by slaved people.

@twicepilled

Жыл бұрын

that's so lovely! i think there's a music duo called cafuné

@tack3545

Жыл бұрын

@@twicepilled iiiiii watch the moooooon!

@FaustoPego

Жыл бұрын

I immediately thought you were going to say "saudade" and I was ready to bonk

@hyungtaecf

Жыл бұрын

@@FaustoPego A maioria dos idiomas tem alguma palavra para saudade.

@FaustoPego

Жыл бұрын

@@hyungtaecf yes 📏💥 📏💥📏💥bonk bonk bonk

One of my favorites in Spanish is "empalagoso/a" which is a word to describe something that is so sweet that it becomes overwhelming. This can also be used to describe that annoying overly lovey-dovey couple or a significant other that coddles their partner too much or is too affectionate.

@jjsmith3302

Жыл бұрын

Cloying

@david13579naranja

Жыл бұрын

​@@jjsmith3302Funny. The comment about this one is basically someone saying the same in Filipino and I told them that English has "cloying". idk if "cloyed" is really a word in English but I use it when I have been affected by something "empalagoso", i.e. when I am "empalagado"

@fnjesusfreak

Жыл бұрын

I think of "saccharine" ?

@NashobaLusaTaloa

Жыл бұрын

We have many words in Spanish which have no English equivalent: "metiche" - someone who always sticks their nose in everyone else's business; "chiquiado" - a child who is constantly catered to (not exactly the same as "spoiled"); "abrazado" - a baby who wants to be held all the time; "para dero" - someone who parties and gets drunk at parties a lot; "flojera" - not laziness, but you just don't feel like doing anything at the moment; "consuegros" - literally your son-in-law's or daughter-in-law's parents; and more.

@NashobaLusaTaloa

Жыл бұрын

"Para dero" was supposed to say "parandero"; my phone changed it. Metiche teléfono!🙂

Some Filipino (Tagalog) words that I can think of: 1. Kilig - like "butterflies in your stomach", but more of the rush or the giddy feeling you get when you experience or witness something romantic. 2. Umay - the feeling when you had too much of the same food or of the same chore or task that if you do it one more time, you'll gonna be literally sick. 3. Tampo - the feeling when you are disappointed at someone because they did something wrong to you but you're not on the level of pissed off yet. Then you kinda sulk and avoid the person. But if they woo or cajole you even the slightest, you're okay again. It's basically Filipino passive-aggressive but a little flirty?! If that makes sense.

@jjsmith3302

Жыл бұрын

Lovely!

@david13579naranja

Жыл бұрын

isnt #2 basically cloying?

@AngryKittens

Жыл бұрын

@@david13579naranja Nope. "To get sick of something/someone" is probably the closest English translation. "Craving something different" is also close. The saying "familiarity breeds contempt" is also relevant. There is no direct equivalent in English, AFAIK. For example, you love chocolates. Someone gave you a truckload of chocolates. So you begin to eat so much chocolate that eventually it becomes "umay." You crave something other than chocolates to eat. Cloying or cringe-inducing (behavior, food, etc.) in Filipino would be "sukot."

@TheCrackerjack95

Жыл бұрын

@@david13579naranja It can mean "cloying", but it's closer to "getting sick of something" in various context. For example, if you have a lot of homework, you can say it is "nakakaumay" or if you're watching an overly dramatic TV show, you can describe it as such. The word is synonymous with the other Filipino word "sawa", which roughly translates to "getting tired of something". The latter is another example of word not directly translatable in English.

@ThisIsNotAhnJieRen

Жыл бұрын

@@AngryKittens whoo! SUKOT! 😆😆😆

"the england of languages" really got me lol i do really love the sentiment tho that no matter the language there are shared experiences and how much richer the share and exchange of words between languages to describe those experiences

@judgedbytime

Жыл бұрын

smh

@Iamlurking504

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, mhm, us8ng the union jack and saying England like a geographical idiot and a person who's brain is a hamburger.

@allangibson8494

Жыл бұрын

Where the French actively exclude the importation of “foreign” words in spite of having a colonial empire an order of magnitude larger than England… (France has a land border with Brazil… (and a sea border with Canada)).

@joebloggs396

11 ай бұрын

Now it's more the US of languages, unless you live in the past like certain people who's identity is irretrievably stuck to a few centuries ago.

“Though our dictionaries are different, the human experience is remarkably similar across the globe.” That’s such a beautiful line.

@peterc4082

Ай бұрын

And she quotes the same languages over and over again, eg Japanese. She couldn't think of other languages because her college only focused on a handful. Not a single Slavic language for example, yet America has a significant Slavic community, and more.

In Finnish the word ‘sisu’ does not have a direct English translation. Though the rough translation can be ‘inner strength’ ‘perseverance’ or ‘strength of will.’ My Finnish grandmother, however, said the real translation would be: ‘too dense to know any better’

@MsWill813

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it definitely has the element of stubborness in it.

@mrnul-gi3fo

Жыл бұрын

Often when I tried to find translations or meanings of it it was like, the inner strentgh of a finn. and now living in Finland and seeing how rather stubborn ppl are and very humble, to a degree of slight annoying ngl, I can understand why sisu doesn't have a translation, never seen any folk like the finns

@saygo-png

Ай бұрын

the translation is just "stubborness" this is really not a unique word. It's calling a global concept something unique to Finland, its dumb nationalism. (I know here you just talk about the word, but people do say that the concept itself is unique to finns too)

@ian2081

Ай бұрын

@@saygo-png so, no, that’s not correct. Sisu doesn’t have a direct translation. Google is a thing. Try it.

My daughter has fully adopted "my mouth is lonely" into her lexicon.

@Lucius1958

Жыл бұрын

one might go to Yiddish, and coin 'noshy', from 'nosh'...

@Sam_on_YouTube

Жыл бұрын

@@Lucius1958 It isn't quite the same. Noshing is more like constant snacking, almost eating because its there.

@xeixi3789

Жыл бұрын

Among us

@BritneyLaZonga

11 ай бұрын

That would be "naschen" in german - isn`t than "Snacking" a good english approximation?

I am Algerian and I have three mother tongues (Amazigh, Arabic, and French), all completely different from each other. I also speak English, German, and Spanish (I am currently learning Mandarin) and this video beautifully expresses what I feel when I try to translate an untranslatable word. There is always something lost in translation. It's fascinating, and it's one of the reasons I adore linguistics.

@arjix8738

Жыл бұрын

@@taylorfusher2997 first of all, you most likely are a bot, second of all, please fix your grammar, cause you make 0 sense.

@robbieboydudeguy

Жыл бұрын

@@taylorfusher2997 ???

@The_SOB_II

Жыл бұрын

@@taylorfusher2997 esteemed client, this is a gas station

@parselucas

Жыл бұрын

@@The_SOB_II what did he say? i cant see his reply

@The_SOB_II

Жыл бұрын

@@parselucas No idea, long since deleted. Probably something bigoted, given the fact that I responded

we have the word "üşenmek" in Turkish. it means "being too lazy to do someting". it is different than word "procrastinating" because you procrastine your responsibilities but you can "üşenmek" for literally everything. to stand up, to talk, to wake up, to drink water etc.

@NeurosenkavalierEmilSinclair

11 ай бұрын

I really hope this word will be picked up by german youth slang since it picked up a lot of turkish words already - but this is the word i really need 😁

@troxexlot18

13 күн бұрын

Umm no, dwadling is the word that matches that

One of my favourite words is 'gezellig' from Dutch. It means cosy, content or warm, but in a kind of communal context, like when you're not just physically cosy but it's cosy because you're together with other people. I wish we had that in English!

@Nexils

Жыл бұрын

Came down here to say the same thing! It's like... a room looks cozy, but the people make it 'gezellig'.

@saschamayer4050

Жыл бұрын

Sounds a lot like "gesellig" in German. Didn't know that this word exists in another language.

@nats9524

Жыл бұрын

@@saschamayer4050 does it have the same meaning as in Dutch? That's so cool!

@saschamayer4050

Жыл бұрын

@@nats9524 Yes, I think so! Funny, isn't it? 🙂

@martijnvandeven7887

Жыл бұрын

Dont forget about 'spannend' a fealing thats you can translate to 'exited for something scary'

For me, the "untranslatable" words highlight different ways of experiencing the world, thereby broadening my own perceptions. If the idea is important enough in a culture, the language develops simpler words and phrases for it. (Of course, "simpler" is relative.) As an exception that proves the rule, German/Deutsch has a propensity for just slamming words together to express new concepts. A classic is "Handschuh", literally "hand shoe" for "glove". Although when specificity is needed, "Fingerhandschuh" is glove and "Fausthandschuh" is mitten. (Yes, "finger hand shoe" and "fist hand shoe".)

@thisotheroneguy6

Жыл бұрын

😂

@pakde8002

Жыл бұрын

I don't completely agree. In the South of the USA you commonly hear women exclaim "oh my goodness, she's so cute I could just eat her up!" referring to a baby in their presence. We really could use a word for that lol. Indonesia has it with "gemes" Possibly because cannibalism was a thing on some of the islands here.

@GrayC_2478

Жыл бұрын

lol, that is like spanish. instead of a separate word for toe, we have "dedo de la pie", which means "finger of the foot".

@okkietrooy6841

Жыл бұрын

In Dutch we do similar things. Handschoen = Handschuh = glove Vingerhandschoen = Fingerhandschuh = glove But Fausthandschuh = want Another example of making new words from excisting words: Werkhandschoen: glove used for work Natafelen is also a combination word. Tafelen is an old fashioned word for diner. (Tafel = table tafelen is a verb made from tafel.) Na means after. Natafelen is your activity after having dinner. We use gluing words tigetger a lit to make new words. Meisjeskleding : clothing for gurls Kinderkleding: clothing for children Jongenskleding: clothing for boys If you use schoenen in stead of kleding, the word will be about shoes. In stead of schoenen you can use ondergoed (underwear); speelgoed (toys);

So interesting! As a native French speaker, I often struggle to find an equivalent to "bon courage" (literally "good courage") to say to English-speaking friends going through a tough time. "Good luck" doesn't quite cut it for someone about to undergo major surgery or rebuilding their lives after the loss of a loved one.

@atsukorichards1675

25 күн бұрын

頑張ってGannbatte/頑張れGannbare in Japanese, I think. (Or 勇気出して/have courage.)

@pauljordan4452

Күн бұрын

I speak French fluently since 1996, so we'd say in English be brave or have courage.

I'm not a native German speaker, but one of their untranslatable words I love is waldeinsamkeit--The feeling of solitude in the forest...not in a lonely way, but in a spiritual way.

When I moved to Belgium and started to learn Flemish, two words immediately struck me: 'komkommertijd' and 'gezellig'. 'Komkommertijd' means 'cucumber time' and refers to a slow news cycle because all the politicians are on holiday. 'Gezellig' is sort of like the Dutch/Flemish version of 'hygge'. The closest English equivalent I can think of is 'cozy', but 'gezellig' encompasses so much more nuance.

@SuicideBunny6

Жыл бұрын

I couldn’t think of any Dutch words from the top of my head, but ‘komkommertijd’ is such a great one!

@jannovotny4797

Жыл бұрын

That word (or phrase...) also exists in Czech! "okurková sezóna" literally translates as "cucumber season" and it has the exact same meaning

@philemonzz

Жыл бұрын

Gezellig could be translated as cozy yeah, but that does leave out the joy of being with with others

@gengis737

Жыл бұрын

One German wrote a complete book to explain the meaning of gesellig.

@kalle911

Жыл бұрын

In Estonia we have a "pickled cucumber season". Or you know, " augurkseizoen".

5:56 Dang, the mom burns at the end!

There's shouganai in Japanese, to describe a situation that cannot be helped. When I was living in Tokyo, other foreign friends there sometimes said "no ginger" when faced with a disappointment, since 'shouganai' sounds like (but does not mean) 'shoga nai' or 'I have no ginger.'

@miltonsantos9065

Жыл бұрын

"Ni pedo". It is a mexican slang to express that exact felling and I love it. When I was studying french I learned the expression "tant pis" and the example for the translation from a classmate was "ni pedo". Now I have the equivalent of it in Japanese, thanks

@devd_rx

Жыл бұрын

That's so cool

@andrry_armor

Жыл бұрын

That looks a bit like the term from chess zuchzwang (or something like that) that means a situation where every move make a situation worse (so there is no good move to make)

@AllyFin

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I like that word

@marixsunnyotp3142

Жыл бұрын

​@@miltonsantos9065 usAmericans will probably have 15 mental breakdowns seeing that word

Another gem from Japanese is enryo no katamari. It literally means "The piece of restraint." It refers to the last piece of a shared food that doesn't get eaten because it would be selfish/awkward for someone to take it.

You left out the best one! The German word backfeifengesicht, which means a face badly in need of a fist, which perfectly describes a coworker of mine

@peterpan408

Жыл бұрын

German is perfect for concatenating new words. Just smush the adjectives and noun together and you're done. However it doesnt make the shortest of words since they dont contract.

@EdKolis

Жыл бұрын

A face that was born for punching? Or something like that...

"Choteo"-- the ability to smile through anything. Cubans think they own it, but Caribbeans in general and IMO the Irish also possess it

@khasab6124

Жыл бұрын

The translations I see of this word just mean kidding or joking and I don't understand what you mean by the Irish having it, I am willing to be corrected there but I've never heard any person in Ireland ever use that word.

@sofiamelendezcartagena1711

Жыл бұрын

In Puerto Rico "Chotear" is to tattle.

@seonaxus

Жыл бұрын

@@khasab6124 yeah, we'd just say "it's grand"

@khasab6124

Жыл бұрын

@@seonaxus yeah i think it's more like I'm just messing

@khasab6124

Жыл бұрын

@@sofiamelendezcartagena1711 online it says it means to tease , to make fun of.

In chamorro, my family's native language, there's "magudai" which refers to "cute agression" towards babies where you just have to pinch or bite them. However, magudai also includes the explanation that we do it so ancestor spirits think that our cute baby is an ugly baby and they don't want to steal the baby from us. So you pinch a cute baby until they make an angry or crying face to save them from dying young.

@SiKedek

Жыл бұрын

And in Tagalog, there's the famous "gigil", which is much like Chamorro "magudai", Malay "geram", Indonesian "gemas", and Javanese "gemes".

In a Western film (don’t recall which), a Native woman’s name is given in English as Dawn. The Native man explains that it means all the things that come with dawn. I always think of it as the early morning light, the birdsong, the feeling of the air, the freshness of a new day. I know that some words contain multitudes of meaning, in any language.

We need a part two of this!

wish you would’ve talked about the word “Saudade” in portuguese, it’s also untranslatable, it’s the feeling of missing, but in a more passionate way

@MeltedBrains89

Жыл бұрын

I think maybe yearning or pining have a similar meaning

@nesthetic

Жыл бұрын

I learned about that from the song Saudade by Us the Duo

@imightbebiased9311

Жыл бұрын

@@nesthetic There's also a song by the Japanese band Porno Grafitti named "Saudade", but the singer mangles the pronunciation so badly, I didn't know it was supposed to be the same word. :)

@cdm8909

Жыл бұрын

@@MeltedBrains89 not exactly

@MsWill813

Жыл бұрын

Kaipuu

I would love for an English equivalent for the Japanese word "Otsukaresama desu" which means literally something like "You are an awesome tired person" but is perfect for a reply when someone has had a long day, is working hard, etc. It shows you acknowledge and appreciate their hard work. Your significant other comes home from a stressful day at work? "otsukaresama desu" You chat with the worker at the grocery store who told you they've been working for the last 12 hours? "otsukaresama desu". Your teenager complains about being tired after staying up late doing homework? "otsukaresama desu" It's just such a nice phrase and I always wish I could say it after I learned it while in Japan

@blasianking4827

11 ай бұрын

The best indirect translation for that would be 'thank you for your work' or 'thank you for the help', since it is a way of thanking your colleagues for working with you but also expressing joy that work is over.

@alpers.2123

2 ай бұрын

In Turkish, there is a similar phrase to salute someone for their work. "Kolay gelsin". But it is told to someone while there are still on their work. It translates to "May it be easy"

@peterc4082

Ай бұрын

Rather not. You do know that you can say a few more words and you don't need that? That's how people who relate well to each other communicate. Eg: Thank you for your hard work. Thank you so much for your awesome work. I can see you're tired. Please get some rest, etc. Japanese are colder to each other, some of our other world cultures are not as "autistic".

@atsukorichards1675

25 күн бұрын

A casual form of "お疲れさまです/otsukaresama-desu" is "お疲れさま/otsukaresama" or even "お疲れ/otsukare," for "-desu" is a polite way to say your coworkers, strangers and so on.

aylyak - bulgarian mostly used as a noun, it means a person who doesn't take anything seriously and is never in a rush; someone who takes their time to savour life

3:20 - In Swedish we call it _"okynnesäta"_ (oh•chynn•es•eta) [mischievous eating]; to eat something just because it tastes good.

Mafan reminds me of the Japanese word mendokuse, which is translated as "troublesome" but it has more the flavour of "It's too much of a hassle."

@fnjesusfreak

Жыл бұрын

"mendou kusai", literally, "a smelly problem".

@user-oy4vu3ck3u

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking of mendokusai too

@ArtemusBlue

Жыл бұрын

I think the closest equivalent I can think of in (Scottish) English is "pain in the arse," which is considerably less polite, and is also a whopping FOUR words, but does get across the point that somebody or something is "a hassle" or "an inconvenience", lol 😂

@fnjesusfreak

Жыл бұрын

@@ArtemusBlue Apart from using the US equivalent of arse, the expression exists here (alternatively with "neck" instead of "ass").

@freezeYT-

Жыл бұрын

Mendoukusai? Why write it in rough Japanese like mendoukusee are you a delinquent

Food Coma, that is the phrase I use and other I have met use when feeling sleepy after eating. Food coma (American English) Abbiocco (Italian)

In Portuguese, the word “saudade” roughly translates to the sad feeling of longing of a loved, absent someone or something that may never return. (I don’t speak Portuguese, I just know of the word)

Always loved the Finnish word "saunanhiljentäjä", which literally translates to "sauna silencer". It refers to that blurting out of something inappropriate, or crossing the line in a conversation that gets everyone quiet, followed for instance by the classic "...anyway..."

Wonderful episode, as always. By far my most appreciated youtube podcast. Finnish "Sisu" springs to my mind. Something in the realm of "resilience" and "stoic tenacity". Finns tend to refer to it as something like their national spirit. As a small nation surrounded by powerful neighbours, who are historically and recently hungry for power, exposed to long and cold winters in an harsh environment - you better get your fair share of "Sisu".

@bwaychick20

Жыл бұрын

As someone who is trying to learn Finnish right now, I agree. It’s somewhere between self assured power and charisma

@simonkemfors

Жыл бұрын

Denmark has hygge, Sweden has lagom and Finland has sisu, as their "national spirit" words, what does Norway and Iceland have?

@5ucur

Жыл бұрын

@@taylorfusher2997 I don't see how that's related to sisu but whatever.

@mollysandera991

Жыл бұрын

Is it something like "grit"?

@peterc4082

Ай бұрын

Like the movie.

As an Indonesian I totally forgot that the word "Jayus" even exist, and I haven't heard that word used since I think 2010. We need to bring that word back y'all.

@hooraayy

Жыл бұрын

Jayus always shows up in "word need to exist in english" hahaha

@rizkyadiyanto7922

Жыл бұрын

cringe word.

Other words is Spanish: Madrugada is that time of the night between midnight and +/- 6 am. Even that hour between 5 and 6 am (when the sun is already out) is madrugada. Madrugar means to get up for the day during those hours (not to be confused with just waking up and going back to sleep). Also, the verb querer has two meanings. To want and "to be very fond of someone without having to use the L word". You would use "te quiero" when talking to a family member or to your partner in a non sexual way. But it's less intense than "te amo" (I love you). Ayer means yesterday and antier means two days ago.

@antoniocampen

Жыл бұрын

antier? i have never heard that only antes de ayer or anteayer

@TheElectra5000

Жыл бұрын

@@antoniocampen At the very least in my country we use the terms this way: Ayer - yesterday Antier - two days ago Anteayer - three days ago

i love “apapacho” as a noun or “apapachar” as a verb. is a word we use in spanish that we adopted from the nahuatl language that means “to hugh someone’s soul”. it’s a gesture or action of love that goes beyond.

Tetelque, a nahuat (not nahuatl) word adopted in salvadoran Spanish that refers to the aftertaste a non-riped fruit leaves in your mouth, like the one green bananas might leave.

@thesalvadorian

Жыл бұрын

Learned something new, thanks!

@AngryKittens

Жыл бұрын

We have native words for that in Filipino too: "apdo" in Cebuano "pakla" in Tagalog We even specifically use that taste to reduce the fishiness in raw fish kinilaw dishes. By using mangrove fruits or mangrove bark extracts. It does have a direct English translation though, but it is rarely used in everyday conversations: astringent

@Prospector32

Жыл бұрын

@@AngryKittens Could that be astringent? The ultimate example would be the taste/feeling of an unripe persimmon.

@Prospector32

Жыл бұрын

@@AngryKittens Sorry, didn't hit the read more.

@antoniocampen

Жыл бұрын

thanks now i can describe one of the worst tastes that exist

I love this!! I do a learning activity around the same idea when I'm teaching teachers how to communicate with people who are new to speaking English. They love learning how ideas are expressed in other languages, some often swear they will adopt new words/idioms/etc because they're useful, like the ones in this video.

As a bit of a lexophile I like the fact that sometimes one has to use multiple words to describe something. Work choice is revelatory. Well presented descriptions, excellent use of descriptors, they are like poetry.

In Portuguese, there is the word "Saudade", which means the feeling of missing somebody that you love

Indonesian here. And I might also add that being 'jayus' is another level of skill dads could learn to add to their repertoire of puns and dad jokes.

"Pålegg" in Norwegian means that stuff you put on a piece of bread to make a sandwich, iike "spread", but also non-spreadable items like ham and cheese slices. It has annoyed me several times there is no good English alternative to this very simple and common concept.

@twistedtachyon5877

Жыл бұрын

"Lay out" or "arraign"? Or is the particular context of sandwiches and interchangeability of continuous and discontinuous spreadables core to the term?

@OmegaPointZealot

Жыл бұрын

It doesn't really have a meaning if it's not used for something that is relatively commonly put on a slice of bread (or between two slices, if you're feeling fancy). It (fairly) literally means "[stuff] that's laid on", and encompasses everything from jam, sliced ham and cheese, to fish roe, pickled herring and the perennial Norwegian experience: mackerel in tomato sauce. 😆

@rinnavalcury7008

Жыл бұрын

In tagalog, we call that "palaman" or "to put something in"

@flis625

Жыл бұрын

Filling? The filling in a sandwich?

@nochan99

Жыл бұрын

@@flis625 except sandwich is two peices of bread, we usualy just have one piece with pålegg on top

The words I feel are missing in English aren’t actually the ones that pack the most meaning in, but the small & simple ones. In Kujametaak there is a word for “the day before yesterday” (fukenuum), as well as multiple “we” pronouns to distinguish if the 2nd person is also included in the group, or if it’s just the 1st & 3rd (wula & wuli, respectively). When returning to English, I found it so frustrating not having these words that cover such small things that come up so often in day to day life

I'm quite fond of the German 'doch'. It means yes, but only in response to a negative statement. Kind of like snapping back at "no you won't" with "yes, I will".

(3:30) I'm from Honduras, not sure about other latin American countries, but over here we use the word "Gula" to describe this. Which is basically a direct translation of the capital sin of Gluttony.

@Genzafel

Жыл бұрын

In Mexico we also say that word

@HYrBatata

Жыл бұрын

In Brazil we also say that word

Let's bring back "overmorrow," a now archiac word meaning the day after tomorrow.

@KevinVanOrd

Жыл бұрын

In Dutch we still use that. Overmorgen!

@maelstrom57

13 күн бұрын

French has _avant-hier_ (the day before yesterday) and _après-demain_ (the day after tomorrow). It's weird how useful words like these somehow fall out of use for no reason.

It is so fun to know there are single words that can take a paragraph to explain.

I also got to learn a term "mudita", a Sanskrit & Pali term that describes joy & pleasure from delighting in other's well being/happiness/success. I find this very beautiful 🥰

@blazer9547

Жыл бұрын

Vicarious joy

I had an inkling it would be "gigil" for Tagalog. Easy pick and very relatable. Learned a lot in this video. I will start using "kuchisabishii" now 😄

@pakde8002

Жыл бұрын

Gigil also means shiver in both Tagalog and Indonesian. Menggigil /shivering but the word for overcome by cuteness is gemes in Indonesian.

@karlbasallote6719

Жыл бұрын

giggle

@achuuuooooosuu

Жыл бұрын

@@pakde8002 Gigil doesn’t mean shiver in Tagalog. Sure there’s the act of trembling, but we only use the word when it’s a hidden outburst of happiness or anger (and also recently, cuteness). But it never means “shiver,” we have the words “katog,” “ginaw,” and “nginig” for that.

@honeybhingful

Жыл бұрын

What's funny is 'gigil' can also be used negatively: when a person is angry at someone and they have this urge to (physically or verbally) hurt them.

@seaneken1483

9 ай бұрын

​@@pakde8002gigil doesn't mean shiver in tagalog. the word for shiver in tagalog is "ginaw" or "nginig

I love your videos, you make the language barrier become a bridge to knowing our human experience is essentially the same 💖

I love this channel so damn much, since the beginning when it was only Monstrum to now, with all the additions that made it even better, specially Dr. E!

the confidence with which you pronounce these words and the effort you put in to get it right is such a standard of quality. many don't don't put in the effort in their videos and it just feels disrespectful and uncaring towards the culture/language/country. it's not like it's a livestream, you can do takes till you get it right.

Part of why English is awesome is because when you don't have words that describe the thing you're thinking of, You can cobble together a sentence that does the job just fine.

The itis is when you eat (sometimes too much) and get sleepy pretty quick after. Not sure origins on that one, but I heard it used in 'The Boondocks' long while ago.

@1eDITORcHRIS

Жыл бұрын

It's short for something we cannot say which I don't know the origins of either but yes as a Black, African-American person I was definitely looking at 3:50 and thinking we do have a word for that for sure lol

I know it’s not a word, but in Italian we have “ti voglio bene”, which would roughly translate to “I want you to be fine/I want good things to happen to you/I cherish you” and it’s an “I love you” you say to friends, parents, people you care for (even significant others) without the erotic subtext of love ❤

@stevetheduck1425

9 ай бұрын

Nice. In English it can be 'all the best', or 'my best wishes', but it doesn't have weight you describe.

1:45 Esprit de l’escalier. We borrowed that already. As for mafan, sounds like “hassle” covers it pretty well.

"Fridge wit" would work well for the first one. We already have fridge logic, which is when you walk away from a story and you start questioning the logic of what happened or the universe it took place in. "Why didn't they just fly to Mordor?" kind of stuff. The Dutch word Natafelen is a contraction of 'na' and 'tafelen' (after 'eating at a table'). But this brings us to another one: 'tafelen' = eating at a table. Though it's generally used for groups of people sitting at a table, and implies a certain 'gezelligheid'

I always enjoy these videos, but this one particularly so, having seen documentaries in the past regarding how English came about. :) Hope it continues to assimilate other meaningful words in the future. Plus, you have a very enjoyable voice to listen to.

Amazing that someone thought of putting together words that people who speak other languages wish they could use in conversation, just to make a direct point! TY Erica!!! (BTW, amazingly pretty, too)

In Brazilian Portuguese we have "saudades" which is the heartache that you have on remebering something, some moment or someone that is gone or you don't see for a long time, it is a mix of sorrow for something that's left in the unreachable past, and bliss for the happiness you felt while it lasted

Thank you for not including _saudade._ Brazilians think it’s some super special unique untranslatable word that only they feel, but the way it’s used in daily life is no different to how we use _“to miss, to long for, to yearn for._

”Empalagar” Spanish That sickly/tired feeling you get when you eat too much sugary foods

@GinnyNReviews

Жыл бұрын

And "empalagoso": A sweet sugary food which certainly is going to give you that feeling

@jessicajayes8326

3 ай бұрын

I call that an insulin dump.

I love seeing more members of the ABT community! What an inspiration you are. A lot of language studies took place in Taiwan because of all the languages there lol

Long haired freaky person from Texas here, and one minute in I pause the video and say this.... My all-time favorite word in any language is the pejorative PENDEJO. I am a white dude from Texas, so I hear and use the word quite a bit. I understand that in other countries besides the U.S. and Mexico, it doesn't mean quite the same thing. That's interesting and I would love to better understand why that is.... All done, now back to the video which I already like a bunch. Great channel. 🏆

As a German speaker, my favorite thing to say in English is san francisco, I don't know what it means, but I think it holds a lot of meaning and it is very fun to say, sometimes I'll just find my self repeating it in my sleep. This word should be very common in childrens books and dictionaries.

@LusiaEyre

Жыл бұрын

Saint Francis in Spanish I would say. A lot of Smanish place names in California.

@stellangios

Жыл бұрын

It just means "Saint Francis" in Spanish, loaned into English and used as a place name in the state of California.

@ldbarthel

Жыл бұрын

When first learning Deutsch, my favorite words to say were "Ausgezeichnet!" and "überall". The first, because it was outstanding (literally) and the second because of learning how to pronounce the "ü" correctly. Actually, I still enjoy saying them... 😀

@luisespineira9882

Жыл бұрын

It’s Saint Francis in Spanish. It can refer to the city or the mission and saint that was name after. San Francisco de Asis.

As a native English speaker one word I couldn't find in Japanese was petrichor which itself is a rare English word meaning "the smell just after rain has fallen on dry ground". You all just imagined it when reading this too. I explained it to a Japanese native and they told me they didn't know of any such word so it definitely goes both ways.

@atsukorichards1675

25 күн бұрын

雨上がりの匂い。

the Swedish word "lagom", meaning something like just right, not too much and not too little, is pretty famously difficult to translate into other languages without making a wordy explanation or missing the exact meaning

I think the German "doch" is very useful, it functions in the following way: your conversation partner says a statement is false (for example: trees are never green) but you disagree, so you say "doch", meaning "no, in fact the statement is correct", for this case: no, trees are NOT never green. I use this word at least a dozen times every day

6:22 actually the Tagalog "gigil" would translate to "cuteness overload"

In Spanish, we have a word for the day after tomorrow and I think we need it in English, it's Pasado mañana which translates to past tomorrow, I think we should use the word past-tomorrow in English

@eomguel9017

Жыл бұрын

We also have the word for the day before yesterday, "antier". And that also reminds me of the words for second to last "penúltimo" and third to last "antepenúltimo".

@aliciab.b.1837

Жыл бұрын

@@eomguel9017 I'd completely forgotten about those but they should also have words in English

@justinbeath5169

Жыл бұрын

Terms for both exist in English, but they have fallen out of usage. They are overmorrow for the day after tomorrow and ereyesterday/nudiustertian for the day before yesterday

@MsWill813

Жыл бұрын

Ylihuomenna and toissapäivänä

Otherwords is one of my favorite series! Thank you for sharing al these wonderful words. I was wondering if you will ever do an episode on rhotics??

My favorite personal example of this is the word "gaman" in Japanese, which I would say describes persistence, combined with strength, stubbornness, and stoicism to go on? Maybe? It has a very clear meaning in Japanese, but I've never been able to explain it in a way that feels correct in English.

I always knew Linguistics and languages in general are fun, which is why I studied German Philology. Not very inventive given the fact that I'm a native speaker of German. I would really like to know how many languages Dr. Brozovsky is fluent in. Doesn't have to be perfect, just being able to talk in daily conversation and understanding things like literature and news. Greetings from northern Germany 🙂

Y'all definitely need the spanish word "estrenar", which means to use an object for the first time, very frequently used when wearing clothes for the first time.

Otherwords is the BEST series! Always excited for a new video! Please keep them coming!

One of the best word i've learned this past year is : nhau "it’s a clarion call to go “drinking and feasting”. Pressed to explain the concept further, a man from Da Nang once described “nhau” as “eating and drinking for no particular purpose.”"

In Costa Rica, we have a word that could be used in English; Tertulia! It refers to those conversations you have with family and friends, that aren't about anything specific, you just go from one topic to another, just to enjoy the company and the conversation.

@MsWill813

Жыл бұрын

Rupattelu

Contigo means “With you” in Spanish, which also the brand name for the hot/cold travel bottles. Great work Erica.

@gabitamiravideos

Жыл бұрын

When I was a child I decided to use “sintigo” (without you) as the appropriate antonym. I was disappointed it didn’t catch :-).

@abqbobcat

Жыл бұрын

Then you also have "conmigo", which means "with me".

@carultch

Жыл бұрын

@@gabitamiravideos English really could use a better word for without. I experience people commonly mistaking it for with, if they don't hear the second syllable. Con and sin are much easier to tell apart than with and without.

Portuguese has one of my personal favorite non-translatable words: saudade. It's that complex emotional feeling of when something or someone brought you happy memories as a part of your life, but for reasons unavoidable is no longer part of your life and cannot come back, leaving you happy for the memories, but sad that you can no longer make new ones.

you know that sleeve used to hold your cup? There's a word for that, in English: *"zarf"* yes I realize that the actual definition is an ornamental cup holder, but I used to have a silver zarf set & it was for holding crystal coffee cups.

6:15 so cute how one of the replies says “la” lol, idk if other people feel that way but it’s nice to see it

It would be really cool to see a video on the international phonetic alphabet IPA and have IPA pronunciations on future words!

@EdKolis

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I see these words spelled out in IPA but I can't read it so I have to go with these ambiguous pronunciation guides, like is that A supposed to be like in its-a me or like in Mario or like in I'm Canadian, eh?

It’s official. I declare that this is the most enjoyable and insightful channel in KZread.

I was about to type in Gigil for Filipino/Tagalog until I saw it given as an example at the latter part. Such a good topic, this one.

I am SO happy Denmark made it into this video! Yay for inexplainable words!

"piliriqatigiiniq" seems like the concept of "gotong royong" in Indonesian. And yup, I agree, it's really hard to define it in a single word like "togetherness" in English, cause it really is a much deeper concept than that, as it includes the community spirit and helping each other when you mention about it :)

@stevetheduck1425

9 ай бұрын

The closest English comes to that may 'being in common cause', but it's got a bad name due to it being used to accuse the family or friends of a rulebreaker due to lack of knowledge of the case, often by neighbours. A rough experience.

I loved a series of this!

My favourite dutch word is gezellig/gezelligheid. It describes the feeling you have when hanging out with someone or several people and it was fun & cozy. But it can also describe the cozy welcoming feeling a certain type of (living) room can have. It is also used sarcastically when you mean the opposite of above statements or when someone is being non social.

3:50 - My family calls the sleepy sensation after eating the “Itis” 😂

@vassily-labroslabrakos2263

Жыл бұрын

In Germany it is called Fresskoma (glutton's coma is a good approximation)

At 2:29 the word I've always used was hasashas or hasashasing

These videos are a treasure. Thank you.

Another great video, I really love this series. Though I have to quibble (great English word) a bit with the common misconception that Denmark is cold and dark just because it's part of Scandinavia. It's on the same level as Great Britain and has a very similar climate.

@OmegaPointZealot

Жыл бұрын

Very good point. As someone from further up north (with a possibly fraught history with Denmark), I think it would help most people get an accurate conception of the country by thinking of it as part of mainland Europe first rather than primarily a part of Scandinavia. The culture, landscape and climate is rather more in line with what you'd expect from the Netherlands or Germany rather than Sweden or Norway, after all.

@berniethekiwidragon4382

Жыл бұрын

An episode of QI, a comdian panel quiz show mentions this, or rather one of the guests keeps saying it, leading to a hilarious explosion in frustration from host Sandi Toksvig, who is of course, Danish.

@MariaVosa

Жыл бұрын

@@berniethekiwidragon4382 It's hilarious when filmatisations of Hamlet purports to place it in Denmark but use Scottish or Norwegian dramatic settings. The highest peak in Denmark is 171 m (c 570 ft).

I definitely want/need schadenfreude to become a much more well-known word.

@davidbarber3821

Жыл бұрын

I've been using it for yrs

@TyxTheRedSnapper

Жыл бұрын

The best type of joy ;)

@TheSuzberry

Жыл бұрын

It’s very popular in my circle. But we take pride in our snark.

@iamTheSnark

Жыл бұрын

@@TyxTheRedSnapper No. The worst.

@iamTheSnark

Жыл бұрын

@@TheSuzberry oh.

As a french individual, I have never heard of the word « l’esprit de l’escalier ». Yet what you describe is commonly referred as « ressasser », which is define as "Going back to (the same things), going over in his mind" It has a double meaning as you can « ressasser » alone in your head you can also do it talks, but there it means reminding people of some event again and again, to make them guilty or something, or simply because you can’t think of anything else. Google wants to translate it as rehash or turn over. Also « ressasser » is a cool palindrome.

@k-techpl7222

10 ай бұрын

From what I checked 'esprit de l'escalier' comes from an old French novel written by Denis Diderot. (Paradoxe sur le comédien)

This is why I love the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows!! They pointed me to many "untranslatable" words!

Thanks, I love learning new vocab!