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11 Untranslatable Words From Different Countries That We Need In Every Language

Have you ever needed a word to describe a feeling or situation, and found the English language wanting? No fear, other languages come to the rescue ! This is a collection of words that are untranslatable, in that they don’t have a succinct, short translation in English. What is “waldeinsamkeit”? Why, the feeling of being alone in the woods, of course!

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Waldeinsamkeit

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Cualacino

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Sobremesa

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Jayus

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Pana Po’o

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Mangata

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Iktsuarpok

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Komorebi

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Pochemuchka

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Goya

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Depaysement

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Martynas Klimas

Writes like a mad dervish, rolls to dodge responsibility, might have bitten the Moon once.