words that don’t exist in the English language:
- L’esprit d’escalier (French) – the feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said; translated it means 'the spirit of the staircase'
- Waldeinsamkeit (German) – the feeling of being alone in the woods
- Meraki (Greek) – doing something with soul, creativity, or love
- Forelsket (Norwegian) – the euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love
- Gigil (Filipino) – the urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute
- Pochemuchka (Russian) – a person who asks a lot of questions
- Pena ajena (Mexican Spanish) – the embarrassment you feel watching someone else’s humiliation
- Cualacino (Italian) – the mark left on a table by a cold glass
- Ilunga (Tshiluba, Congo) – a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time
- L’esprit d’escalier (French) – the feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said; translated it means 'the spirit of the staircase'
- Waldeinsamkeit (German) – the feeling of being alone in the woods
- Meraki (Greek) – doing something with soul, creativity, or love
- Forelsket (Norwegian) – the euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love
- Gigil (Filipino) – the urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute
- Pochemuchka (Russian) – a person who asks a lot of questions
- Pena ajena (Mexican Spanish) – the embarrassment you feel watching someone else’s humiliation
- Cualacino (Italian) – the mark left on a table by a cold glass
- Ilunga (Tshiluba, Congo) – a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time
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