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10 Words From Around The World That You Need In Your Life

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10 Words From Around The World That You Need In Your Life
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Have you ever experienced something that felt indescribable? The problem isn't that we lack the words to explain how we feel, but that they simply don't exist in the English language. We often miss out on certain terms that do not translate well between languages, leaving us without the appropriate words to express our thoughts. It's time we embrace the phrases lost in translation that we all need in our lives.

1. Døgne (Norwegian)

To stay awake for 24 hours.

2. Shemomedjamo (Georgian)

When you are too full, but your meal is too good, so you keep eating.


3. Wabi-Sabi (Japanese)

Beauty is centered on the acceptance of the imperfect and incomplete.

4. Ilunga (Tshiluba, Southwest Congo)

Forgive and forget the first abuse, tolerate the second, but neither forgive nor tolerate the third.

5. Strikhedonia (Greek)

To find joy in saying "To hell with it."

6. Saudade (Portuguese)

Longing for something or something that you once loved, and now it is lost.

7. Numinous (Latin)

Feeling both fear and awe for what lies ahead.

8. Hygge (Danish)

What you feel when you are experiencing life with good friends.

9. Cockaigne (French)

A land of luxury and idleness

10. Sonder (Unknown)

The realization the each and every person is living a life as full and as complex as your own.


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