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 Tue, Oct 22 2024, 12:54 pm
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When translating Hebrew into English one needs around 20% more words.
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Good Friend
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Tue, Oct 22 2024, 1:11 pm
| amother OP wrote: | What is a word that can't be translated to a different language unless you used more words?
Can only be single words.
I'll start.
Halivy
Parent
Fargin
Mechitunim
Shver
shvigger
shneer
eidim
Yenta (I know nosybody but its not an exact translation)
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Halevai in Spanish is ojalá
Shver in Hebrew isn’t it chami?
Shviger in Hebrew chamot
Shver and shviger in Spanish are suegro and suegra respectively
Brother in law and sister in law in Spanish are cuñado and cuñada
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amother
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Tue, Oct 22 2024, 1:18 pm
It’s a combination of pride and joy
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amother
Steel
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Tue, Oct 22 2024, 1:18 pm
Fun in Hebrew is כיף
Only in Yiddish does the word not exist
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Puce
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Tue, Oct 22 2024, 1:54 pm
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Fair has no translation in Hebrew. It’s not a Jewish concept!
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zaq
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Tue, Oct 22 2024, 1:59 pm
| amother Puce wrote: | | Fair has no translation in Hebrew. It’s not a Jewish concept! |
It very much is. The word is בצדק which means "just" in the sense of being the right thing, not in the sense of very recent (I just heard) or merely (I need just five minutes).
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patzer
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Tue, Oct 22 2024, 2:01 pm
No. I don't have nachas when I eat ice cream.
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zaq
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Tue, Oct 22 2024, 2:14 pm
| amother Steel wrote: | Fun in Hebrew is כיף
Only in Yiddish does the word not exist | This word is Arabic, not Hebrew, though Hebrew speakers have been using it at least since the 1970s. Even if the Academia Lalashon HaIvrit decided to accept it as a proper Hebrew word (I don't know if they did or not), the fact remains that the concept did not exist in classical Biblical, Mishnaic, or Rabbinic Hebrew and not even in the early Modern Hebrew of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There's "mechayeh" which is Yiddish-derived-from-Hebrew and means "a great pleasure." But this doesn't have quite the same meaning as "fun." Many things are pleasures without the added sense of recreation. Fun is pretty much always has an element of recreation. You might say your new, light, cool sheitel is a mechayeh to wear but you probably wouldn't call it fun to wear.
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amother
Lightgreen
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Tue, Oct 22 2024, 2:16 pm
| amother Puce wrote: | | Fair has no translation in Hebrew. It’s not a Jewish concept! |
ישרות
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amother
Cantaloupe
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Tue, Oct 22 2024, 2:18 pm
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Kimpiturin, don't believe there's an english translation.
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amother
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Tue, Oct 22 2024, 2:22 pm
| amother Puce wrote: | | Fair has no translation in Hebrew. It’s not a Jewish concept! |
The yiddish word for it would be גערעכט but it doesn't translate to the exact meaning of fair.
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WhatFor
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Tue, Oct 22 2024, 2:24 pm
| amother OP wrote: | What is a word that can't be translated to a different language unless you used more words?
Can only be single words.
I'll start.
Halivy
Parent
Fargin
Mechitunim
Shver
shvigger
shneer
eidim
Yenta (I know nosybody but its not an exact translation)
Fun |
Eidim are witnesses.
You think there's no single word for parent or fun in any other language?
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amother
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Tue, Oct 22 2024, 2:27 pm
| WhatFor wrote: | Eidim are witnesses.
You think there's no single word for parent or fun in any other language? |
Pretty sure she means eidim as in sons in law
In which case the word is son in law
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