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Antonia 1 year ago
#3 This is the required order : opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose. Example : a lovely little old rectangular green french silver whittling knife. Any other order will seem strange.
       
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Delf 1 year ago
#7 In what language?
       
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Jude 1 year ago
#17 "Doch" is "nevertheless" in English. And the English counterpart of "schadenfreude" is "epicaricacy". Just because you don't know a word does not mean that it does not exist. English has ALL THE WORDS. Alles...
       
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Kasey 1 year ago
Jude, Yep. Every language has its limitations and latitudes. For example, in English the word “love” can mean several different things depending on the context. I “love” pizza or I “love” my wife - two very different meanings but we understand it because of the context. And conversely, the word “serendipity” is hard to translate in to other languages because it has a broad meaning to us. Not every word can be translated identically among all the hundreds of languages.
       
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Evelyn 1 year ago
Kasey,
serendipity is just destiny or fate. Every language has that word definition.
Amd speak for yourself, i love my pizza and wife equally and the same way
       
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Woody 1 year ago
Jude, "doch" can have many different meanings, but not "nevertheless". That would be "dennoch".
       
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Sophronia 1 year ago
Jude,

nope, "nevertheless" doesn't have the same semantics as "doch". There may be an overlap here and there, but it's not the same.

I assume you aren't a German native speaker?
       
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Sophronia 1 year ago
#23 is the same in German "Waschbär" (wich is wash bear).
       
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Sibbie 1 year ago
Sophronia,

As it is in Dutch; Wasbeer.
       
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Sibbie 1 year ago
I cannot find any word in any language that reflects the feeling/mood of the Dutch word "Gezellig".
       
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K.c. 1 year ago
Sibbie,

how about german "gesellig"? ;)
       
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