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[–] 4 points 1 hour ago

お疲れ様 (good job+"you look tired"+"I an acknowledging this and presenting recognition of your effort")

Keigo modifiers. ご覧 vs 見る. They both mean "look". One is, somehow, more polite.

Kansai dialect. しばいたろか ("wanna get smacked?" but it's playful) or まいど ("thanks" but also "nice to see you again" and "hello" but only in specific contexts between specific people. Mess it up and you'll probably hear the other Kansai term previously described.)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 hour ago

    झूठा खाना/पानी (Jhootha khana/pani)

    Food/water that is cosumed by someone else and hence is unsuitable for eating/drinking. Especially for religious or devotional rituals.

    In the similar vein, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prasada

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  • [–] 4 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

    Sisu. Its a mix of courage, determination, resilience, keeping your nerve, doing a scary or difficult thing even though you know that odds of succeeding are low. Its also done quietly, no complaining or boasting about it. You can mutter some curse words quietly to yourself.

    Closest English word for it might be "guts" or "grit". But those don't really explain it completely.

    Finnish.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 hours ago

    Javertus. (Danish)

    It's a thing that sticks out, and you don't know what it is, but it has the function of sticking out. Like a naturally occurring bulgy peak or other unknown long shape coming out of something else.

    It's most often used as slang for penis, but otherwise it might be found on trees or wooden objects.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    Gezellig in Dutch. Used to describe a situation that's cosy and fun togetherness. Can also be used to describe a place that looks inviting (to have that good time in). I guess 😃

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  • [–] 10 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (4 children)

    Fjøs is where farm animals are kept. "Barn" is more general and translates to "Låve", while Fjøs doesn't really have an English translation.

    Nisse is a mythological creature that is part goblin, part santa, part Gnome, but not really either of them. They're usually benign and pretty cool.

    Hygge (noun) /hyggelig (adjective) means having a cosy, lighthearted or fun atmosphere, usually in company of others

    EDIT: By the way, Nissen lives in the Låve

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  • [–] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    Hygge became too popular so that's started making it's way into English. Hopefully that one sticks around. The pronunciation will never be correct though. Nisse sounds awesome though.

    What's the difference between a Låve and a Fjøs?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 hours ago

    Fjøs is specifically where animals are kept. Låve is more generic, but it's usually where you store stuff such as hay and produce. Sometimes the two are combined into one building and It's common to refer to the ground floor as Fjøs, and the floor above as Låve.

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  • [–] 24 points 6 hours ago* (3 children)

    Russian is more productive than English, so there's a bunch of "we just smushed a bunch of prefixes and suffixes on it" words that don't have a great English equivalent, like недоперепить -- to drink quite a lot but not succeed at drinking too much. I don't think we properly have листопад which is the equivalent of "snowfall" but for autumn leaves. I really miss успевать -- to successfully have enough time to do something. There's also кипяток -- water that has been boiled but then slightly cooled, like 200-205 degrees F. The canonical examples are тоска , which is a kind of melancholy longing, and авось which expresses optimism but I basically never heard anyone actually say.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago

    I think авось has a general meaning similar to "god willing", or "with some luck", not simply some optimism. Like "авось успеем" -> "with some luck, we can make it in time". I do agree it's an old-fashioned word which I haven't really heard in a while.

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  • [–] 42 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    In Spanish.
    Sobremesa, the period you stay at the table after lunch or dinner having a coffee or some drinks while chatting.

    Aprovechar, is basically the opposite of to waste. So depending on the context is to take advantage of something, to make the most of, make a good use, give a second use or reuse leftovers for something else.

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    Guten Appetit! (German term equivalent to "cheers" for drinking - but for eating.)

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  • [–] 13 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (5 children)

    That one is really interesting, because a lot of languages has it, from guten apetit, through dobrou chuť to itadakimasu. But english was out of school that day I suppose.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

    English stole 'Bon Apetit" from French fair and square!

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  • [–] 5 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

    As English often does - if it makes sense in another language and is easy for English speakers to understand the context it's used, they're quite happy stealing it. Especially French.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago

    itsdakomasu

    Did you mean itadakimasu?

    Because that is what you say in Japanese when you start eating but interestingly it doesn't mean "Guten Appetit" (basically "have a nice meal") but "I am (thankfully) going to receive (a nice meal)". While "Guten Appetit" is about others who are eating alongside you, "itadakimasu" is about the speaker.

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  • [–] 22 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    Shaka, when the walls fell

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  • [–] 32 points 9 hours ago* (11 children)

    Does it count if English just steals your words?

    Schadenfreude, Zeitgeist, Weltanschauung, Kindergarten.

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    [–] 1 point 4 hours ago

    Hinh in Burmese. The closest equivalent is curry, and while all curries are hinh, not every hinh is curry. It basically means something you eat with the rice.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

    Lanche, the meal between lunch and dinner

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    It's just the noun-form of the verb "kakeru", in this context, to pour or splash a liquid, with the intensifier "bu" in front of it to suggest it's done forcefully. Like in bukkake udon, where the broth is splashed onto the udon noodles.

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