“Getting Drunk In Your Underwear”: 34 Concepts English Doesn’t Have Dedicated Words For

In French we have 2 words for "pride".

*Fierté* is the usually the pride you feel in your accomplishments or those of someone you like.

*Orgueil* is the pride you feel about who you are. It not as superficial as vanity but often has negative connotations.

Your wealthy boss shares his *fierté* about the money he's made. But *orgueil* will forever keep him from seeing his employees as an equal.

Flâner

That's when you stroll aimlessly through a city, just enjoying the surroundings without a set destination.

Friolento! (Friolero in other regions I believe) I'm a persona friolenta myself (Friolento means somebody that's too affected By the cold weather or it's constantly feeling cold).

In Polish - załatwić. It basically means to get something done, don’t ask me how.

In English, aunt/uncle are general terms that don't specify whether the person is from the mother’s side or the father’s side but in Arabic we have 2 different words for that.
Mother's side : Khal/Khala
Father's side: Amm/Amma.

Eish. Word used as exclamation in South Africa to express a variety of feelings such as surprise, disgust, disappointment, fear, impatience, etc. Example: “Eish! My team lost the game” or “Eish… my manager asked me to work overtime”.

In indonesian we have "segan", which is an unwillingness to do something, but that unwillingness is driven by respect. segan is not reluctance, it is not timidity, it is not shyness, it is not awkward. it's kind of recognizing that you are bound by social hierarchical obligations/expectations and can't say or do what you want. like not telling the boss he's wrong, not challenging your elderly mother.

i guess this would map well to japanese. in indonesia, segan comes from javanese , which has rigid social stratification hard coded in the language.

what a great question, thanks mate!

"Uppehåll" in Swedish. Basically it means "right at this moment it is not raining" and I havent found and equivalent word in English yet.

In Punjabi we have names for almost every relationship you can imagine. For example, dad's older brothers wife is "Tha-ee" or your husband's sisters husband "nandoi" - it's kinda cool, because you always know who the person is referring to without having to explain.

For me it's surprising that words "friend" and "cousin" don't have a gender. So you have to say "female friend/male cousin" instead of using a single word that exist in many languages (e.g. italian amico/amica, cugino/cugina etc).

Padkos. An Afrikaans word that literally translates to “road food” aka road trip food. The closest English translation is “provisions” but it’s not quite as specific.

Dygn (Swedish), it's a 24-hour span of time (and far less ambiguous than a day).

Portuguese- “saudade” . A feeling of homesickness for something.

Chulé - bad foot odor

Cafuné - running your fingers through someone's scalp affectionately

Portuguese.