Last word you learned in a foreign language

Post by **Aevas** » 11 Nov 2017 18:41

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 · Post by **Thrice Xandvii** » 11 Nov 2017 20:04

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

elemtilas · Post by **elemtilas** » 11 Nov 2017 20:22

panihapon, supper

Post by **Creyeditor** » 11 Nov 2017 21:33

The last word I learned was probably

korting meaning discount, borrowed from Dutch and often used figuratively.

Iyionaku · Post by **Iyionaku** » 11 Nov 2017 22:00

Mandarin

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

Lambuzhao · Post by **Lambuzhao** » 12 Nov 2017 01:19

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 · Post by **Lambuzhao** » 12 Nov 2017 01:26

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 · Post by **Thrice Xandvii** » 12 Nov 2017 02:29

That last link won't work as an image because it doesn't have a file type, try this one: http://sloabn.com/wp-content/uploads/20 ... huoi-2.jpg

Egerius · Post by **Egerius** » 12 Nov 2017 13:55

English
to rescind (thanks to Lao Kou!)

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

elemtilas · Post by **elemtilas** » 12 Nov 2017 15:38

Lambuzhao wrote: ↑12 Nov 2017 01:26 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 · Post by **Lao Kou** » 12 Nov 2017 16:46

Egerius wrote: ↑12 Nov 2017 13:55 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.

Post by **clawgrip** » 13 Nov 2017 02:06

I think the last word I learned was:

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

Lao Kou · Post by **Lao Kou** » 14 Nov 2017 12:26

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 · Post by **gestaltist** » 14 Nov 2017 14:11

outwith - Scottish English for "outside, beyond"

Egerius · Post by **Egerius** » 14 Nov 2017 17:20

gestaltist wrote: ↑14 Nov 2017 14:11 outwith - Scottish English for "outside, beyond"

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

elemtilas · Post by **elemtilas** » 14 Nov 2017 17:47

Egerius wrote: ↑14 Nov 2017 17:20
gestaltist wrote: ↑14 Nov 2017 14:11 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 · Post by **Thrice Xandvii** » 14 Nov 2017 18:58

vivisepulture!? jawn!? The rest I know!

Post by **Aevas** » 19 Nov 2017 12:26

DUTCH
- de boete 'a fine, fee'

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

AlwaysForget · Post by **AlwaysForget** » 22 Nov 2017 20:06

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 · Post by **Iyionaku** » 23 Nov 2017 13:11

Mandarin

完了 wánliǎo - to finish

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