ITT: Words in other languages that have no English equivalent

[Anonymous No.6416978]

Pic related reminds me of my steam library.

[Anonymous No.6418495]

Spanish: Gustar

[Anonymous No.6418504]

>>6418495
Lol. Gustar means to eat

[Anonymous No.6418513]

>almost all books on my shelf were unread
>decide to read them all
>almost done
>half of them are utter shit

[Anonymous No.6418514]

>>6418495
To please.

[Anonymous No.6418516]

>>6418504

[Anonymous No.6418522]

Spanish: Me Gusta.

[Anonymous No.6418524]

>>6418513
this, I started picking them up before coming to /lit/, now I want to throw them all out and get new ones./

[Anonymous No.6418532]

>>6418522
It pleases me.

[Anonymous No.6418538]

>>6418514
Doesn't gustar mean "to like" but with the subject/object opposite what they are in English?

[Anonymous No.6418540]

>>6418538
No, it means to please.

[Penelope !dgOyi90UNA No.6418549]

East Asian languages mix words together to create new words. Tsun doku pretty much just means Pile Unread.

[Anonymous No.6418572]

>>6418540
But all the translators I can find say "gustar" means "to like." That's what it says in my Spanish textbooks, too. On Yahoo Answers, Spanish Speakers were asked "What does the work "like" mean?" The overwhelming majority of respondents said it meant "gustar," though one person said that "like" means "agradar" in Spanish. "Agradar" translates to "to please" in English.
see https://es.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110907235710AADRpkd

[Anonymous No.6418578]

Let's reverse it. Here's a word in english that has no equivalent in any other language:

scuba - to continue breathing while water rises around you

what a beautiful language

[Anonymous No.6418591]

>>6418572
I'm not interested in the "Yahoo Answers" investigation from some monolingual.

[Anonymous No.6418598]

>>6418572
It's just been translated that way. Same way people usually translate "Me llamo x" as "my name is x" but it's actually "I am called x". To conform to the english convention. Gustar definitely does mean to please and if you dont see that lord help you.

[Anonymous No.6418605]

>>6418591
>ignores translators
>ignores textbooks
>ignores native speaker judgments
"Gustar" is translated as "to like." You can easily confirm that using any of the sources I mentioned. Are all the people translating it as "to like" just incorrect? Are they just doing it for convenience? The meaning of "to please" is not the same as the meaning of "to like."

[Anonymous No.6418607]

>>6418598
Translating Gustar as "to please" is an approximation because the subject/object configuration is the same for those two verbs. The actual meaning is exactly "to like" but with the subject and object reversed.

[Anonymous No.6418616]

>>6418607
>Translating Gustar as "to please" is an approximation because the subject/object configuration is the same for those two verbs. The actual meaning is exactly "to like" but with the subject and object reversed.

Actually, gustar means to please but the common idiom in English is "like", which is where tardfarm (>>6418605) also gets it wrong. Translating "gustar" to "like" is the approximation, because "please" is out of favor in English usage.

It's cute that your Spanish 101 books tell you the verb means "to like, with the subject/object reversed!" but that's just to make it all easier to your simple minds.

[Anonymous No.6418625]

>>6416978
Chingar
>chingense esa

[Anonymous No.6418685]

>>6418578
is this a troll? that's not what it means. it's an acronym.

[Anonymous No.6419409]

Dugnadsånd

[Anonymous No.6419431]

Swedish: Lagom

[Anonymous No.6419495]

>>6418524
>now I want to throw them all out
Why? Just sell them.

[Anonymous No.6419513]

>>6416978
Gigil (Tagalog) - That shivery, teeth-gritting thrill that accompanies a strong urge to lay your hands on something (while possibly holding yourself back from doing so).

It usually happens when you see something super adorable (ex. wanting to pinch a baby's cheek), but can also be caused by something that makes you gut-wrenchingly angry (ex. wanting to punch someone).

[Anonymous No.6419523]

Not sure really how reliable this is or if these words are really "untranslatable"

http://blog.maptia.com/posts/untranslatable-words-from-other-cultures

Any way, it's interesting. Nice thread

[Anonymous No.6419530]

>>6416978
well don't that cut deep

[Anonymous No.6421505]

>>6418514
>>6418495
to be pleasing to

[Anonymous No.6421514]

>>6418598
>"I am called x"
Actually, it's "I call myself x." Llamarse is reflexive.

[twinishia No.6421517]

technically all words have their own meaning in each individuals mind
and that meaning
can't be communicated
we are all alone
and no one could understand our cries for help, even
if we had the will to utter them.

[Anonymous No.6421523]

>>6419513
I like the word "kasama" in Tagalog. From what I remember it can roughly be understood as "companion" but has some more spiritual connotations, at least in some contexts

[Anonymous No.6421546]

>>6421514
There is no verb "llamarse." Llamar is a regular verb, the "me" is the object pronoun meaning me/myself.

[Anonymous No.6421558]

>>6421546
>There is no verb "llamarse."
Yes, there is. It's the reflexive form of "llamar." The "me" pronoun is indicating the object performing the action on itself.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/llamarse

[Anonymous No.6421573]

>>6421514
True.

[Anonymous No.6421585]

>>6421546
To expand on my reply here >>6421558
If llamar was being used, the correct use would be "Yo llamo x," or simply, "Llamo x." Being used in this way, it wouldn't make sense. It would be saying, "I call x." If you wanted to say, "I am called x," then you would have to say something along the lines of, "Llamaba x a mi." The "me" pronoun is the reflexive form and indicates that the verb "llamar" is being used in the reflexive form "llamarse." It's only in the reflexive way that the traditional introduction makes sense.

[Anonymous No.6421589]

>>6421585
err, sorry. "Llamaba x a yo" is the correct form.

[Anonymous No.6421615]

>>6421589
>>6421585
I spoke too soon. "Ellos llamaba x a yo."

[Anonymous No.6421618]

pretty much every german word construction containing sentence like informations. "Luftballonluftaustriebverschluß"

[Anonymous No.6421633]

>>6421585

Do you even know spanish?

[Anonymous No.6421655]

>>6421633
Se ve que es un pendejete.

[Anonymous No.6422067]

>>6421517
I know exactly what you mean.

[Anonymous No.6422537]

My mother tongue is spanish.
You guys are very funny.

[Anonymous No.6422560]

>>6421655
Se te nota lo troleado.

By the way, "trolled" as an adjective would be literally translated as "troleado" but in my country prostitutes are called "trolas", so saying that you got trolled or that you were prostituted is the same.

[Anonymous No.6422852]

Crei que hablaba de Gustar como en "probar el sabor de algo"

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I thought he was talking about Gustar as "tasting food"

[Anonymous No.6422978]

>>6421517
Yeah I agree Croatians are the absolute worst

[Anonymous No.6425268]

>>6422852
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>>6422852
Guuuuuuys. I think that there's a basic problem. Some of the anons who posted here are from South America. Spaniards and south americans can talk, and easily understand themselves, but a lot of words are different.

I'll share my perspective:
In Spain, "Gustar" means "To like" (something or someone).
Probably what this guy means is "to taste", ergo this guy is from South America. In Spain the best word for that would be "Saborear" (or in a more vulgar way, "Probar").

>but in my country prostitutes are called "trolas"
"Trola" in Spain is a despective way to talk about a "Lie".

Source: Living in Spain for 14 years.

>>6422537
Agree :)

[Anonymous No.6425624]

>>6418549
>East Asian languages
That's how most languages work. Have you ever stopped to think about words like "bookworm"?

[Anonymous No.6425630]

>>6416978

>Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

--Schopenhauer

[Anonymous No.6425799]

Is there a word or term for something someone loves but only in secret?
Not necessarily a guilty pleasure.

[Anonymous No.6425813]

>>6422978
ey fuck u man

[Anonymous No.6425843]

>>6425268
y-you wouldnt happen to be writing one of those primitivist anti-civilization books, would you?

[Anonymous No.6425881]

>>6425843
No, why?

[Anonymous No.6425929]

>>6416978
A lot of languages have two separate pronouns for 1st person plural
inclusive "me and you and maybe some other people"
exclusive "me and some other people but not you"

[Anonymous No.6425990]

>>6425881
I thought you were my pop-anthropology husbando /crush

[Anonymous No.6426231]

>>6425990
cryptic/10

[Anonymous No.6426249]

>>6426231
Christopher Ryan
he lived in spain through the 90's until coming back in the early 2000s

[Anonymous No.6426400]

>>6416978

[Anonymous No.6426458]

Don't the Japs have different words for reality how it is, and reality how people pretend it is, or something? I vaguely remember reading about that, but I forgot the terms.

[Anonymous No.6426470]

>>6416978
i will definitely use this word in the future.

[Anonymous No.6426637]

>>6426458
Honne and tatemae?

[Anonymous No.6426644]

>>6426637
That's it, thank you Anon.

[Anonymous No.6426739]

>>6425929
Sounds like a very rude practice :D

Also Mono No Aware

[Anonymous No.6426957]

>>6418549
Didn't they use to do that a lot in Old English/Anglo Saxon?

[Anonymous No.6427090]

cafuné: the act of running your fingers through your lover's hair (Brazilian Portuguese)
I like this word.

[Anonymous No.6427108]

>>6427090
how would you conjugate that?
cafuning, cafunéing?

[Anonymous No.6427137]

>>6427108
It's a noun.
Plus if it were to be conjugated, (not sure if it's gramatically 'legal'), would be cafunendo (?)
I'm not fluent in portuguese, but it's a pretty word.

[Anonymous No.6427227]

>>6427137
how the fuck is that a noun?

[Anonymous No.6427295]

>>6418578
Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus

[Anonymous No.6427517]

>>6427295
Underwater

[Anonymous No.6427958]

>>6419495
But then someone else might accidentally read them.

[Anonymous No.6428005]

>>6416978
Thanks

[Anonymous No.6428015]

>>6428005

[Anonymous No.6428024]

>>6427137
It's not. You would say "fazendo cafuné" or "dando cafuné" (the former is more correct IMO).

[Anonymous No.6428027]

>>6428024
(which means giving/doing a cafuné)