Untranslatable words of your language

[VitorSP]

What are the words of your language that don't have any translation to others idioms?

I would know because these kind words are uniques and make the singularity of wich language.



In brazilian portuguese have "saudade": is the name of the feeling of missing somebody.

[Tabiti]

Family relations - we have words for older sister, older brother, mother/father-in-law for females, mother/father-in-law for males, the sister/brother of your mother, the sister/brother of your father, the sister/brother of your husband/wife, the mother/father-in-law of your child, etc, etc. Even I don't know all the words for family relations.

[finþaų]

Lagom. A word signifying a quality that is neither excessive nor insufficient; I cannot think of a good single-word translation in English.

[Methmatician]

The Germans have Verschlimmbesserung.

[finþaų]

The Germans have Verschlimmbesserung.

In Swedish we call that en björntjänst, literally a bear's favour.

[morski]

Lagom. A word signifying a quality that is neither excessive nor insufficient; I cannot think of a good single-word translation in English.

Moderate?

[Smaug]

Saudades, is a feeling which is the noun of the verb "to miss". When you miss someone, you feel "saudades".

I thought Luso-Portuguese also had this word. Very interesting indeed!

[finþaų]

Moderate?

Close, but doesn't quite capture the essence of lagom.

[Queen B]

Filotimo

[morski]

In Swedish we call that en björntjänst, literally a bear's favour.

We have the exact same concept here, but it's not a single word. Мечешка услуга.