Foreign Word of the Day

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The Esperanto prefix ge- means 'both sexes or genders together'. The -j ending makes the plural. For example:

patro 'father', patrino 'mother' --> gepatroj 'parents'

junulo 'youngster, young one, young person' --> gejunuloj 'young men and women'

amiko 'friend' --> geamikoj 'friends, both male and female'

The Esperanto verb for 'to sleep' is dormi. Guess what gedormi means.

You can.



bist du soweit?
bist du soweit?
bist du soweit?
bist du soweit?
bist du soweit?
bist du soweit?
bist du soweit?
I wish I could speak German.

man steht morgens auf und findet einfach den sinn seines lebens nicht mehr

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one wakes up everyday and doesn't find the meaning for his life anymore

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wow thank you so much, Spiderpig!

seinfeld ist mein lieblingsserie

do u want to know what's the most kind hearted thing on earth?

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not intended to be funny,sad or judgmental. probably just a random meaningless post.

i wonder if members don't get banned here? i didn't come a cross a banned account on here

haven't seen

Cariad = Welsh = my love/sweetheart/beloved

päämääräänsäkäänpäs.

Finnish. This word is grammatically correct but never used in everyday life. It is a one-word expression meaning the emphatic denial of one's or some one else's goal. As far as I know, it is the longest word in any language with all ä's for vowels. It is easy to pronounce, just say the ä as in the word "at". The double ää is a longer sound.

You can. Just add manually the coloring tags around the expression you wish to color. The pattern is, for example, {color=red}Your expression here{/color} but replace the curly brackets with square brackets. All obvious color names can be used. The above example will then look like Your expression here.

P.S. Just noted that Spiderpig explained it above, far better than I did.

Mangaka is the Japanese word for a comic artist or cartoonist. Outside Japan, manga usually refers to a Japanese comic book, and mangaka refers to the author of the manga, who is usually Japanese.

Manga means 'sleeve' in Spanish and Portuguese.

The Finnish word for night is a real oddball. It is spelled yö and its pronunciation should be heard. It definately does not resemble any other language name for night.

I think the same can be said about the Basque word for ‘night’: gau. Native words in non-Indo-European European languages very much should be expected to be oddballs.

hey =) thank you so much! xD

if german is your first language, plz point out my mistakes. thanks =)