Last word you learned in a foreign language

[Aszev]

Write the last word(s) you learned in a foreign language here!

For me:

NORWEGIAN (NN)
- førebudd 'prepared'

FINNISH
- tukea 'to support'
- tuki 'support'

ENGLISH
- beanie (I've always just used 'hat'...)

[Thrice Xandvii]

Cool idea for a thread! (Unfortunately, I can't recall the last word I learned as I'm not actively studying anything.)

[elemtilas]

panihapon, supper

[Creyeditor]

The last word I learned was probably korting meaning discount, borrowed from Dutch and often used figuratively.

[Iyionaku]

Mandarin

出行 chu1xing2 - to go on a journey. Saw it on a poster from Zhengzhou in a newspaper.

[Lambuzhao]

I had a mantra on the moss when I had to go to bed

Sorry if I'm violating something or other, but:

I made a mantra on the moss when Morpheus embraced me.


I could not help myself.

[Lambuzhao]

BTW,

越南香蕉
Yuènán xiāngjiāo

Chuối xîem
Viet {sweet} bananas



Actually, I eat them when they look more like this outside :





Yummy yum yum!

[Thrice Xandvii]

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[Egerius]

English
to rescind (thanks to Lao Kou!)

SW-Middle English
stappen ‘to step, to move, to enter’

[elemtilas]

Chuối xîem
Viet {sweet} bananas

saba

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWSbow6VSv0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5FVKwijLw0

Saging by any other name would still peel as sweet!

[Lao Kou]

English
to rescind (thanks to Lao Kou!)

You're welcome. So what, zurücktreten?

One of the joys of the expatriate lifestyle is that you're bombarded with new words all the time. And with characters, there's a never-ending reservoir of obscure ones for kanji freaks like myself. My boyfriend seems to think I'm a bottomless font of genteel expressions in both English and Chinese, so it's fun to see him get whiplash when I pull out something rather less-than-genteel. This week, the term learned was 脑残 (nǎocán), which I'll translate, pardon my French, as "shit for brains".

Gosh, so many. Another fun one -- 魔都 (módū), an alternative appellation for Shanghai.

[clawgrip]

I think the last word I learned was:

仮釈放
kari-shakuhō
"parole" (the crime kind, not some sort of speech)

[Lao Kou]

From a French game show -- don't know how I missed it lo these many years:

une cosse - a pod (as for peas); which led to avoir la cosse - feel lazy (an idiom my dictionary lists as "dated", but I think I have the age and sarcasm to pull it off, eh what? )

Just now, same show, different day -- though I can see having missed this one:

une génisse - a heifer

Breaking the rules here, as this is not a foreign language for me, but just a moment (from a film review of Breakfast at Tiffany's):

whilom - former, erstwhile, having once been (I imagine this will be one of those that, having encountered it, I now see everywhere)

[gestaltist]

outwith - Scottish English for "outside, beyond"

[Egerius]

outwith - Scottish English for "outside, beyond"

I've known that one for... three and a half years.

[elemtilas]

outwith - Scottish English for "outside, beyond"

I've known that one for... three and a half years.

How about vivisepulture?

Or tonic?

Or jawn? (I haven't even heard of that one!)

Or davenport?

[Thrice Xandvii]

vivisepulture!? jawn!? The rest I know!

[Aszev]

DUTCH
- de boete 'a fine, fee'

FINNISH
- kotelo 'pupa, cocoon, case, cover'

[AlwaysForget]

Here's some interesting Basque derivation:
Balitz "if he/she/it were..."
and derived from that with the adnominal -ko suffix
Balizko "Hypothetical"
Balizko olak burdinarik ez "A hypothetical forge doesn't (produce) any iron." (proverb)

Interesting!

[Iyionaku]

Mandarin

完了 wánliǎo - to finish