🔒 Closed 9 Beautifully Quirky Foreign Words That We’re Jealous We Can’t Say In English

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Mangata (Swedish): The road-like reflection of the moon in the water
Perhaps people don't notice these glimmering, lyrical moments enough anymore, but the way the moon reflects and leaps across the black water of the ocean at night is surely a sight to behold.




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Akihi (Hawaiian): Listening to directions and then walking off and promptly forgetting them
When they explained how to get there, their directions all made perfect sense—you nodded and looked back with clear understanding. Then you parted ways, and now you can't remember whether to take a left or a right.




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Commuovere (Italian): To be moved in a heartwarming way, usually related to a story that moved you to tears
Maybe you had a single tear rolling down your cheek, maybe you were crying for days afterward. Touching and powerful stories hit you in the most inexplicable, unexpected, and undeniably human ways.




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Komorebi (Japanese): The sunlight that filters through the leaves of the trees
It may be temporarily blinding, but it's most definitely beautiful. There is something wonderfully evocative and uniquely magical about sunlight filtered through green foliage.




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Glas wen (Welsh): A "blue smile," one that is sarcastic or mocking
Those sarcastic smiles are not so easy to escape. They make you squirm a little and leave you wishing that you could ust slip away without having to return an awkward half-smile.




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Kilig (Tagalog): The feeling of butterflies in your stomach, usually when something romantic or cute takes place
You know exactly what this is. Once it's taken hold, there's no stopping that can't-think-straight, smiling-for-no-reason, spine-tingling feeling that starts somewhere deep inside the walls of your stomach.




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Luftmensch (Yiddish): Refers to someone who is a bit of a dreamer; literally means "air person"
Your head is in the clouds and you aren't coming down anytime soon. You're living in a dream world—the 9-to-5 has no place here and paperwork doesn't exist at this attitude. So it's out with reality and in with the impractical.




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Tretar (Swedish): A second refill of coffee, or a "threefill"
Whether you read this and think, "Only three cups?" or you don't understand how it's possible to stomach even one cup of coffee, let alone three, you have to admit that this is a very logical and efficient word.




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Tsundoku (Japanese): Leaving a book unread after buying it, typically piled up together with other unread books
The tsundoku scale can range from just one unread book to a serious hoard, so you are most likely guilty of it. As intellectual as you may look tripping over an unread copy ofGreat Expectations on your way to the front door, those pages probably deserve to see the daylight.




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Lost in Translation
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[jmarprinz]

Thanks for sharing