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speeding_snail  ·  4331 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 14 wonderful words with no English equivalent

In Dutch people call the day after tomorrow "overmorgen". Germans say "übermorgen" and the french will tell you that the day after tomorrow is "après-demain". The Dutch and German words literally mean "over tomorrow". The French word means "after tomorrow". There are many languages with words similar to "Zeg", English is just not one of them.

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