Give a “fun” fact about your native language (1 Viewer)

[Chaeee]

There is no direct translation of “yes” in Irish. E.g, “Yes, I like Loona” would roughly translate to “I do like Loona”. It also depends on the time tense like past, present & future. This all applies the same way for no too.

 

[eclipsoul]

pretty much no matter what you want to say we have a curse word for it

 

[cocomelon]

i know one about urdu. it came into existence when the mughal rulers came into india, they spoke persian, but unlike the royalty, the common people didn't know persian, so they spoke bits of hindi (then hindavi) and bits of persian and that combination came to be known as the language urdu

 

[RockyGoose]

People in my country didn't speak Faroese in church in the past because they thought God didn't understand it.

 

[cocomelon]

oh one more. hindi belongs to a indo-european language family that extends upto norway 🤯

 

[kiki]

we dont have gendered pronouns, only me, you, they

 

[Chaeee]

we dont have gendered pronouns, only me, you, they

What language is that?

 

[Ahsoka]

It is one of the two main languages spoken in space, and English astronauts need to learn it.

 

[kiki]

What language is that?

estonian

 

[Michael]

Almost every noun word is gendered.

 

[Gwacepop]

Words that are spelled the same have different meanings.
Bu could mean rice or it could mean group
Kang could mean plate or burn
Tuk could mean very or hit
There's more but the moment i thought about my language i forgot it all TT

 

[Dreamer_of_Songs]

There are approximately 40,000 words that have all 5 vowels (a,e,i,o,u). These words are known as pentavocálicas (or panvocálicas).

My native language aside from English is Spanish.

 

[HelloGoodbyeDie]

Sawadee meaning hello in thai, can also be someone's name.

 

[Magician]

Let me go with german:
There are three ways of saying 'the': der, die and das
It's super tricky to know which article to use

 

[Ahsoka]

Let me go with german:
There are three ways of saying 'the': der, die and das
It's super tricky to know which article to use

One of my least favorite parts of German

 

[Ahsoka]

Oh another one I find interesting is that world and peace are the same word, мир (meer).