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Last word you learned in a foreign language
Posted: 11 Nov 2017 18:41
by Aevas
Write the last word(s) you learned in a foreign language here!
For me:
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ORWEGIAN (NN)
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førebudd 'prepared'
F
INNISH
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tukea 'to support'
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tuki 'support'
E
NGLISH
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beanie (I've always just used 'hat'...)
Re: Last word you learned in a foreign language
Posted: 11 Nov 2017 20:04
by Thrice Xandvii
Cool idea for a thread! (Unfortunately, I can't recall the last word I learned as I'm not actively studying anything.)
Re: Last word you learned in a foreign language
Posted: 11 Nov 2017 20:22
by elemtilas
panihapon, supper
Re: Last word you learned in a foreign language
Posted: 11 Nov 2017 21:33
by Creyeditor
The last word I learned was probably
korting meaning
discount, borrowed from Dutch and often used figuratively.
Re: Last word you learned in a foreign language
Posted: 11 Nov 2017 22:00
by Iyionaku
Mandarin
出行 chu1xing2 - to go on a journey. Saw it on a poster from Zhengzhou in a newspaper.
Re: Last word you learned in a foreign language
Posted: 12 Nov 2017 01:19
by 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.
Re: Last word you learned in a foreign language
Posted: 12 Nov 2017 01:26
by Lambuzhao
Re: Last word you learned in a foreign language
Posted: 12 Nov 2017 02:29
by Thrice Xandvii
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
Re: Last word you learned in a foreign language
Posted: 12 Nov 2017 13:55
by Egerius
English
to rescind (thanks to Lao Kou!)
SW-Middle English
stappen ‘to step, to move, to enter’
Re: Last word you learned in a foreign language
Posted: 12 Nov 2017 15:38
by elemtilas
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!
Re: Last word you learned in a foreign language
Posted: 12 Nov 2017 16:46
by Lao Kou
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.
Re: Last word you learned in a foreign language
Posted: 13 Nov 2017 02:06
by clawgrip
I think the last word I learned was:
仮釈放
kari-shakuhō
"parole" (the crime kind, not some sort of speech)
Re: Last word you learned in a foreign language
Posted: 14 Nov 2017 12:26
by 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)
Re: Last word you learned in a foreign language
Posted: 14 Nov 2017 14:11
by gestaltist
outwith - Scottish English for "outside, beyond"
Re: Last word you learned in a foreign language
Posted: 14 Nov 2017 17:20
by Egerius
gestaltist wrote: ↑14 Nov 2017 14:11
outwith - Scottish English for "outside, beyond"
I've known that one for... three and a half years.
Re: Last word you learned in a foreign language
Posted: 14 Nov 2017 17:47
by elemtilas
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?
Re: Last word you learned in a foreign language
Posted: 14 Nov 2017 18:58
by Thrice Xandvii
vivisepulture!? jawn!? The rest I know!
Re: Last word you learned in a foreign language
Posted: 19 Nov 2017 12:26
by Aevas
DUTCH
- de boete 'a fine, fee'
FINNISH
- kotelo 'pupa, cocoon, case, cover'
Re: Last word you learned in a foreign language
Posted: 22 Nov 2017 20:06
by 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!
Re: Last word you learned in a foreign language
Posted: 23 Nov 2017 13:11
by Iyionaku
Mandarin
完了 wánliǎo - to finish