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What is “cheese” called in your language?
(lemmy.ml)
Ser
Juust (estonian)
Cáis
Сыр (syr)
Juusto
my parents’ language, we say 奶酪 or جبنة
growing up, from others it’d be ser or queso.
in my Grandpa’s language would say: גבינה but he also spoke arabic
(i only know a little Chinese and Arabic. i can write a little in Chinese but can’t write in Arabic at all.)
natively, cheese and queso
also, queijo in my third language, and formaggio, fromage, ser, сыр, and queixo (not fluent)
then, in the languages i wanna know more of: チーズ、奶酪/起司，جبنة
ayyyy جبنة twins!!
Fromage!
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Das ist Käse.
Btw: This saying is used in case something is stupid :)
cheese, queso, or queijo
¡queso!
Cheese
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formaggio 🤌
Ost
Ost!
That's Swedish isn't it?
My dad had this brilliant idea for everyone to say "cheese" in the local language every time he took a selfie of us when we were travelling around Europe. Let's just say even though that was years ago in my childhood, I can look through that album and know instantly which photos were taken in Sweden!
I was referring to Danish, but indeed it seems the same spelling also applies for Norwegian and Swedish. But quite different pronounciations, I would think. In Danish, you would say "åst" with an "å"- which everyone naturally knows how to pronounce of course.
Haha, yes, that's brilliant. We even do that here from time to time. One indeed does look dapper saying "OOOST".
At least plugging them all into Google translate, the pronunciations are actually all pretty similar, with Swedish being the most dissimilar
Svorte Sara, that's some stinky shit. Every time we were over to helsingør or køpenhavn my parents bought stinky cheese with them home to ruin the fridge.
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Käse
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Käse (Germany)
« Fromage ».
Oh, Dexter!
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Kaas.
Fun fact: New York was founded by the Dutch. A curse word for a Dutch guy was "Jan Kaas", which changed over the years to "Yankees".
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Ser (in Polish.Pronounced similarly to "sir" in"yes sir")
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Kéés (Texels Dutch, my wife’s home dialect)
Queijo (PT-BR)
сыр!
Ostur
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🇮🇸
Kaas 🇳🇱
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Сир
Syr
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Gazta (in Basque)
Queso
Paneer
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