There are few things that don't seem to translate. A friend was explaining his son was comfortable swimming on vacation because it was shallow enough to stand up or touch bottom, but the Danish phrase is uses bottom as a verb, "He was comfortable because he could bottom."
The same family asked me our word for the 12 1/2 anniversary. Here they celebrate the 50th/golden, the 25th/silver, and the 12 1/2, or copper, anniversary. It is a big event that people start planning far in advance.
Of course there is hygge, which translates as cozy, but is more of a feeling. When A. was playing miniature golf near the fjord on a very green course
I explained to the parents of A.'s friend that the course close to us has a view of eight lanes of traffic on I-10. "This is much more hyggelig," the other parent said.
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