11 Beautiful Japanese Words That Don't Exist In English

Once, when I asked my friend from a small tribe in Burma how they would say “breakfast" there, she told me that they didn't have a word for it because they only ate twice a day--lunch and dinner. I happen to have a lot of friends who speak English as their second language and that made me realize that a language has a lot to do with its culture's uniqueness. Because of that, there are some untrans

[tsukitaro]

いただきます　おつかれさま　木漏れ日　木枯らし　物の哀れ　森林浴　幽玄　しょうがない　金継ぎ/金繕い　わびさび 　擬音語

[LaclefYoshi]

しょうがない

[kuenishi]

I have some opposition to this word choice and their description, though, those words might sound fresh

[mayumiura]

「金継ぎ/金繕い」というのは素敵だよなあ。あと、オノマトペの英訳がすごく勉強になる。

[waman]

もののaware, しょうがない

[atasinti]

擬音語　All the onomatopoeia English has onomatopoeia, but Japanese has far more. For example, we have “om-nom-nom” for eating and they have “paku-paku” for eating normally, “baku-baku” for eating wildly, “gatsu-gatsu” for eating fast, “mogu-mogu” for chewing a lot, etc. Does