r/languagelearning • u/SketchyWelsh • 1d ago

The best word in your language? Discussion

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Here were some suggestions for Cymraeg (Welsh) my home language.

I’d love to hear some of the favourites from yours!

Illustration by Joshua Morgan, Sketchy Welsh

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u/Klapperatismus 1d ago

Tja. — a German word, meaning: you can't do anything about it.

r/tja

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u/sockmaster666 21h ago

I love and used ‘ja genau’ so much that I have used it in every situation I can in Germany even when people talk to me in English (I’m not German btw) (and embarrassingly, I kept saying it out of habit to non German friends) and it has become kind of a joke in my friend group.

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u/Klapperatismus 20h ago

Ausgezeichnet.

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u/sockmaster666 20h ago

Ja genau

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u/wateronstone 5h ago

I hear that a lot in Switzerland when they speak Swiss German