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Poll: Have you ever encountered a word in your mother tongue that you didn’t know how to translate?
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Michele Fauble
Michele Fauble  Identity Verified
United States
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Member (2006)
Norwegian to English
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Schadenfreude Jul 3

Angie Garbarino wrote:

Alex Lichanow wrote:

My mother tongue is full of words that are considered to be untranslatable. There's a reason "Schadenfreude" is simply used unchanged in English. However, I only translate INTO my mother tongue, so the question is irrelevant.



pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune?, Impossible to translate also in Italian and French


But easy to translate to Norwegian - “skadefryd”.

Angie Garbarino
 
Kay Denney
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France
Local time: 23:18
French to English
. Jul 3

Alex Lichanow wrote:

My mother tongue is full of words that are considered to be untranslatable. There's a reason "Schadenfreude" is simply used unchanged in English. However, I only translate INTO my mother tongue, so the question is irrelevant.


Schadenfreude is a beautiful word for a not so beautiful sentiment! I must admit that I have felt it at times. Like when that woman pushed rudely past me in a busy shop on Christmas Eve, and knocked her shin hard on the cast-iron fireplace accessories in my shopping bag.

And since I don't translate out of my native tongue, I'm finding there are more and more words I can't translate. When the English word comes to me but I'm speaking in French, I find myself flailing. It's really infuriating when it's a word that I use in translations: show me the French word and the English word just pops out of my brain, but show me the English word and I'm stumped. I've even thought I ought to start translating into French just to get my brain to work better both ways.
(only thought! don't slay me!!)

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Poll: Have you ever encountered a word in your mother tongue that you didn’t know how to translate?






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