Unique words in your language?

[Tradu]

wouldnt that just be cozy?

i cant think of any on the top of my head :O

Yeah, the word that only Danish has is "at hygge", which would be literally translated to "to cozy/coze", which I'm pretty sure isn't actually a thing in any other language. Or at least you'd have to use a whole sentence to get the same effect as that one word.

[Wikiy]

See the OP.

Well doesn't mean it isn't unique. ^^ Chances are there are equivalents to any unique words in one of the world's 6000 languages, i just assumed we were taking English as a standard.

That would be a pantry or cellar.

You're right. xD I guess i haven't used that word enough to have realized it exists in English.

Hipster.

Forgot to say that the word i was describing is usually used for old people that fit that description. It definitely isn't a hipster.

[Rusken]

Aussie slang!

G'day: Good day/Hello

Yonks: A lot of/A long time

I don't know if it's used elsewhere but "Get on the piss" means "get drunk"

Fair-dinkum: Basically anything. eg "That was a fair-dinkum effort, good work" or "Fair-dinkum this idiot can't drive" etc (I think that's it anyway, just really going off context I've heard it in.)

Struth is another one, used almost as a swear. "Struth! That car went straight into oncoming traffic."

Also, we don't throw shrimps on the barbie, they're called Prawns here.

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Noes, in Blekinge.

Well duh, that's not so weird, everyone there is inbred anyway.

jk

[Mormolyce]

Struth is another one, used almost as a swear. "Struth! That car went straight into oncoming traffic."

And cooee and hard yakka... most of these ultra-Ozzie terms are only used by old people out in the sticks of course :P

Did you know strewth is a contraction of "god's truth"?

[Wikiy]

The verb "pisnuti" which means to start talking after someone's already told you to shut up.

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Well duh, that's not so weird, everyone there is inbred anyway.

jk

Haha, sometimes it does make me wonder at times..

Assume you live in Skåne? :P

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Haha, sometimes it does make me wonder at times..

Assume you live in Skåne? :P

Yeah, lived here pretty much half my life, but will live in Luleå in approx a half year when I begin university.

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orchkatzlschwoaf - tail of a squirrel

Loving this thread.

[This name sucks]

English is a language made up of words from every language. And it designed to constantly add new words.

Gang is a Chinese word
Gung Ho is a Japanese term used in American English.

Thats the reason English's spelling is such a god damn mess. England was conquered by like 7 different people. Normans, Romans, Vikings, etc and they all added elements of their own language into English. Resulting in unbelievable inconsistency.

Its also partly why is the closest thing we have to a universal language. Its already the standard language of science, programming and aviation.

[Gothicshark]

"Špajza" is the word for a small room in which you keep any food or drinks that can last for months or years. Most houses actually don't have this room. It's actually a German word, by the way, which i guess comes from all the Austrian hegemony which my country experienced.

"Klošar" is a person who acts, dresses or smells like a homeless person but usually isn't homeless. Also is heavily possessed by alcohol. Oddly enough we actually didn't take this word over from another language!

"Špajza" = Larder, most American houses from prior to 1900 had these, but since the invention of the Refrigerator larders have been obsolete.

"Klošar" = Wino, vagrant, vagabond , bum

[Ghul]

schlabbekotzer - freely translated: a guy who pukes sandals

swiss language btw

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apartheid
so unique the whole world uses it :'(

[Rhiziana]

Smørbrød in danish, its a very rough piece of bread called Rugbrød (wups, another one ) thats very healthy, but with alot of butter and some good stuff on it, like Leverpostej (one again, also its some chopped liver baked with some other stuff, really good)

[Gothicshark]

Smørbrød in danish, its a very rough piece of bread called Rugbrød (wups, another one ) thats very healthy, but with alot of butter and some good stuff on it, like Leverpostej (one again, also its some chopped liver baked with some other stuff, really good)

Smørbrød - open faced sandwich

Rugbrød - Sourdough or Rye

Leverpostej - Sounds like 'danish Pate' to me. We have that in the deli section of the super market.

[goneloco]

What unique words do you have in your language? Like in Swedish, where we have the most awesome word ever: "lagom", which doesn't have a direct English equalivent but basically means something that is okay, in the middle. Like if something is "lagom" cooked, it means it's okay cooked, it's as cooked as it should be.

So what unique words exist out there?

theres also a word for lagom in japanese

[PizzaSHARK]

What unique words do you have in your language? Like in Swedish, where we have the most awesome word ever: "lagom", which doesn't have a direct English equalivent but basically means something that is okay, in the middle. Like if something is "lagom" cooked, it means it's okay cooked, it's as cooked as it should be.

So what unique words exist out there?

English doesn't have a lot of interesting, unique words, but we come up with a lot of words that aren't really words here in the south.

[Faenskap]

The beautiful Norwegian!

Forpult: means something has been fucked (pult) too much. "Forpulte rævhøl": asshole that's been fucked too much. Very nice word

Døgn: 24 hours. English doesn't have this, just "day and night"

Forelska: it's a verb, meaning "(being) in love". Other languages might have this act of being in love as a verb too, I'm not sure.

Our version of schadefreue is skadefryd.

Pålegg: shit you have on your bread or whatever. It's an umbrella word for cheese, ham, butter, fish or what have you. More convenient with "put the pålegg on the table" than "put the cheese, ham, butter and fish on the table".

Tyskerunge: german's child, used to describe children born of norwegian mothers and german fathers during and shortly after WWII. Very insulting, and the children went through a lot of harassement because of their german fathers, as did the mothers.

Faenskap (my name, because I'm unimaginative!): faen is short for "fanden", another word for the devil. Hit your thumb rather than the nail with a hammer? Shout "faen"! "skap" is a suffix to plenty of words, while also meaning closet, sort of how english has "ship", being both a suffix and a boat. We have "vennskap", english has "friendship", see what I'm getting at? Anyway, it's a form of cursing. "You're full of faenskap", could mean you're full of shit. "This PC is some fucking faenskap to type with", the pc is shit to type with.

That's all I can think of for now

[Yemiena]

Hyggelig from danish!

In norwegian aswell.

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Fleuve. It's a large river that goes into the sea. Alternatively just a large river.