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God the untranslatable

Have you ever come across those lists of untranslatable words from other languages?

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Just search ‘untranslatable words’ online and you’ll find a treasure trove: ikigai means ‘a reason to live’ in Japanese, anteayer is Spanish for ‘the day before yesterday, waldeinsamkeit is German, meaning ‘the feeling of being alone in the woods’.