Top 10 Words that Do Not Translate into English

Sayonara (Japanese), paalam (Filipino), au revoir (French), despedida (Spanish), Auf Wiedersehen (German) and Goodbye in English. Most of the words, phrases, sentences, stories, novels, etc of any language can be translated into English. We all knew that English is the universal language and it is the most used and most understood language of our time. But would you believe that all words do not translate into English? For this top 10 list we gathered some of the unfamiliar and even familiar words that remains the same even inserted or used into English sentence. Here they are guys.

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TOP : 10
Word or Phrase : Pisan Zapra
Language : Malay
Meaning : The time taken to eat a banana.

Woman eating a banana

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TOP : 9
Word or Phrase : Schadenfreude
Language : German
Meaning : Pleasure resulting from someone else's pain or misfortune.

Marathon pooping

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TOP : 8
Word or Phrase : Gigil
Language : Filipino
Meaning : The urge to squeeze or pinch something that is really cute.

Super cute cat which is really "nakakagigil"

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TOP : 7
Word or Phrase : Bakku-shan
Language : Japanese
Meaning : A girl who looks good from behind not from the front.

Beautiful women from behind

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TOP : 6
Word or Phrase : Pena ajena
Language : Mexican Spanish
Meaning : Embarrassment derived from seeing someone else's humiliation.

Other people humiliation is an embarrassment for you

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TOP : 5
Word or Phrase : Waldeinsamkeit
Language : German
Meaning : The feeling of being alone in the woods.

A man walking alone in the forest

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TOP : 4
Word or Phrase : Jayus
Language : Indonesian
Meaning : An unfunny joke told so badly that it becomes funny.

Laughing people, even the joke is not funny

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TOP : 3
Word or Phrase : Age-otori
Language : Japanese
Meaning : To look worse after a haircut

Woman's haircut (BEFORE & AFTER)

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TOP : 2
Word or Phrase : L'esprit de I'escalier
Language : French
Meaning : Thinking of a witty comeback when it's too late to deliver it.

A thinking man

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TOP : 1
Word or Phrase : Backpfeifengesicht
Language : German
Meaning : A face badly in need of a fist.

A boxing fight, fist hitted a face

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That's the top 10 words that do not translate into English. Leave your comments below if you have something to say.

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