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    Every language captures ideas that others cannot. Explore untranslatable words from languages around the world.

    • Achuar

      1 phrase

    • Afrikaans

      8 phrases

    • Akan

      9 phrases

    • Albanian

      15 phrases

    • Algonquian

      1 phrase

    • Amharic

      9 phrases

    • Ancient Egyptian

      1 phrase

    • Ancient Greek

      16 phrases

    • Arabic

      90 phrases

    • Arrernte

      1 phrase

    • Australian Aboriginal English

      1 phrase

    • Australian Aboriginal languages

      1 phrase

    • Avestan

      1 phrase

    • Aymara

      5 phrases

    • Balinese

      2 phrases

    • Bambara

      1 phrase

    • Basque

      4 phrases

    • Bavarian German

      1 phrase

    • Bengali

      4 phrases

    • Boro

      1 phrase

    • Bosnian

      2 phrases

    • Brazilian Portuguese

      13 phrases

    • Bulgarian

      1 phrase

    • Buli

      1 phrase

    • Burmese

      12 phrases

    • Cantonese Chinese

      4 phrases

    • Catalan

      3 phrases

    • Chinookan

      2 phrases

    • Croatian

      12 phrases

    • Czech

      23 phrases

    • Danish

      23 phrases

    • Dinka

      1 phrase

    • Duala

      1 phrase

    • Dutch

      31 phrases

    • English

      7 phrases

    • English (Caribbean Creole)

      1 phrase

    • English (as adopted from Aboriginal languages)

      1 phrase

    • Estonian

      6 phrases

    • Fijian

      1 phrase

    • Filipino

      40 phrases

    • Finnish

      39 phrases

    • Fon

      2 phrases

    • French

      105 phrases

    • Galician

      2 phrases

    • Georgian

      7 phrases

    • German

      93 phrases

    • Greek

      48 phrases

    • Greenlandic

      1 phrase

    • Guarani

      12 phrases

    • Guaraní

      6 phrases

    • Gujarati

      2 phrases

    • Hausa

      5 phrases

    • Hawaiian

      49 phrases

    • Hebrew

      62 phrases

    • Hindi

      32 phrases

    • Hopi

      3 phrases

    • Hungarian

      24 phrases

    • Icelandic

      17 phrases

    • Igbo

      9 phrases

    • Indonesian

      47 phrases

    • Inuktitut

      20 phrases

    • Inupiaq

      1 phrase

    • Irish

      25 phrases

    • Irish Gaelic

      4 phrases

    • Italian

      47 phrases

    • Jamaican Patois

      1 phrase

    • Japanese

      204 phrases

    • Javanese

      8 phrases

    • Kazakh

      17 phrases

    • Khmer

      6 phrases

    • Kikongo

      1 phrase

    • Kivila

      1 phrase

    • Korean

      28 phrases

    • Kurdish

      2 phrases

    • Lakota

      1 phrase

    • Latin

      13 phrases

    • Latvian

      22 phrases

    • Lenape

      1 phrase

    • Lingala

      2 phrases

    • Lithuanian

      4 phrases

    • Low German

      1 phrase

    • Maasai

      1 phrase

    • Maguindanao

      1 phrase

    • Malagasy

      3 phrases

    • Malay

      39 phrases

    • Maltese

      1 phrase

    • Mandarin

      11 phrases

    • Mandarin Chinese

      68 phrases

    • Mande

      1 phrase

    • Mandinka

      2 phrases

    • Maori

      8 phrases

    • Mapudungun

      2 phrases

    • Marathi

      1 phrase

    • Mashi

      1 phrase

    • Mohawk

      2 phrases

    • Mongolian

      16 phrases

    • Māori

      6 phrases

    • Nahuatl

      52 phrases

    • Navajo

      2 phrases

    • Naxi

      1 phrase

    • Nepali

      11 phrases

    • Ngangikurungkurr

      1 phrase

    • Noongar

      1 phrase

    • Norwegian

      43 phrases

    • Ojibwe

      1 phrase

    • Okinawan

      2 phrases

    • Old English

      3 phrases

    • Old Norse

      4 phrases

    • Onondaga

      1 phrase

    • Otjiherero

      1 phrase

    • Pali

      6 phrases

    • Pascuense

      1 phrase

    • Persian

      38 phrases

    • Pirahã

      1 phrase

    • Pitjantjatjara

      2 phrases

    • Polish

      19 phrases

    • Portuguese

      95 phrases

    • Punjabi

      2 phrases

    • Quechua

      67 phrases

    • Romani

      1 phrase

    • Romanian

      11 phrases

    • Rukwangali

      1 phrase

    • Russian

      39 phrases

    • Samoan

      3 phrases

    • Sanskrit

      80 phrases

    • Scots

      1 phrase

    • Scottish Gaelic

      8 phrases

    • Serbian

      24 phrases

    • Setswana

      1 phrase

    • Shanghainese

      1 phrase

    • Shona

      3 phrases

    • Sinhala

      11 phrases

    • Slovak

      6 phrases

    • Slovenian

      1 phrase

    • Somali

      2 phrases

    • Spanish

      231 phrases

    • Swahili

      19 phrases

    • Swedish

      58 phrases

    • Swiss German

      1 phrase

    • Tagalog

      7 phrases

    • Tamazight

      2 phrases

    • Tamil

      13 phrases

    • Taíno

      6 phrases

    • Thai

      32 phrases

    • Tibetan

      60 phrases

    • Tshiluba

      2 phrases

    • Tupi

      3 phrases

    • Turkic

      1 phrase

    • Turkish

      52 phrases

    • Twi

      1 phrase

    • Ukrainian

      50 phrases

    • Urdu

      36 phrases

    • Uzbek

      1 phrase

    • Vietnamese

      63 phrases

    • Welsh

      7 phrases

    • Wolof

      2 phrases

    • Xhosa

      2 phrases

    • Yaghan

      1 phrase

    • Yakut

      1 phrase

    • Yiddish

      18 phrases

    • Yoruba

      34 phrases

    • Yucatec Maya

      8 phrases

    • Zulu

      26 phrases

    • Zulu/Xhosa

      1 phrase