Last word in a foreign language that you learnt 2

[linguoboy]

풋콩 /puskhong/ edamame

[Dormouse559]

belgo-belge adj - typically Belgian

Wiktionnaire also has an entry for franco-français: typically French; done by France or the French for the benefit of the French. Something I learned from the article linked below: Coed PE classes are unusual in Belgian secondary schools.

Mais la non-mixité des cours d’éducation physique à ce niveau, très belgo-belge, reste l’habitude.
But gender-segregated physical education classes at this level, very typical of Belgium, remain the norm.

[Osias]

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[schnaz]

Studentenblume,die und Ringelblume,die both mean marigold.
From Wiktionary:
"From Student (“student”) +‎ -en- +‎ Blume (“flower”), because the flowers are reminiscent of the colorful caps formerly worn by university students."

At first I took "ringel" to be "ring" but as it turns out it is "wind" or " coil".


"I am already against our next war." https://www.antiwar.com/

[Dormouse559]

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dire nm - (often preceded by a possessive pronoun) thing a person says
à mauvais escient - improperly

D’après ses dires, la chanson aurait été un peu différente si elle était sortie aujourd’hui.
As she (Angèle) tells it, the song would have been a bit different if it were released today.

[…]

Angèle n’a cependant pas apprécié que sa chanson soit utilisée à mauvais escient
However, Angèle didn’t appreciate her song being used improperly.

plan débullé / plan cassé nm - Dutch angle

— La caméra est trop molle dans les scènes d’action, trop flottante dans les scènes d’exposition, les scènes sont réutilisées de manière grossière et la majorité des plans statiques sont des plans débullés.
— Mais c’est quoi un plan débullé ?
— Un plan débullé, ou plan cassé, est une technique de cadrage qui vise à déplacer de quelques degrés l’inclinaison de la caméra afin que le bas du cadre ne soit plus parallèle à la ligne d’horizon.

— The camerawork is too soft during action scenes and too uncertain in exposition scenes, shots are clumsily reused, and the majority of the static shots use Dutch angles.
— What is a Dutch angle?
— A Dutch angle is a framing technique in which the angle of the camera is changed by a few degrees so that the bottom of the frame is no longer parallel to the horizon line.

[linguoboy]

attichement infatuation

[Dormouse559]

crève-cœur nm - heartbreak
double actif / double active n/adj - person who holds two jobs

In translating the sentence where I found these terms, I rendered both of them in English using different parts of speech: Crève-cœur goes from noun to adjective, and double actif goes from noun/adjective to verb.

Pour Grégory Maitre, jeune éleveur de 26 ans à Montvalezan, c’est un crève-cœur : Odieuse, une de ses tarines, est sélectionnée pour le concours de la race, mais lui, double actif, ne peut l’accompagner.

For Grégory Maitre, a 26-year-old farmer in Montvalezan, it’s heartbreaking: Odieuse, one of his tarentaise cows, has been chosen for the breed competition, but since he works two jobs, he can’t go with her.

ETA March 18
privacité nf - privacy

… des logements tous différents qui offrent des volumes extrêmement généreux tout en alliant à la privacité de l'individuel la sociabilité du collectif
one-of-a-kind residences that offer extremely spacious interiors while combining individual privacy with collective sociability

April 27
dithyrambique adj - dithyrambic, relating to dithyramb poems; (figurative, pejorative) excessively praising, eulogistic, laudatory

La presse internationale dithyrambique après la prestation de Kevin De Bruyne face à Arsenal
International press gushes over Kevin De Bruyne’s performance against Arsenal

May 2
délit de fuite nm - hit-and-run

Un jeune homme décède, renversé à la sortie d'une discothèque. Une enquête ouverte pour délit de fuite
Young man dies, run over while leaving night club. Hit-and-run investigation opened

May 9
devin/devineresse nm/nf - seer/seeress, soothsayer


May 16
plan d'exposition nm - establishing shot

Outre le fait de nous laisser profiter de la splendeur du panorama, le plan d'exposition est souvent inserré au début d'une nouvelle séquence afin de la localiser dans l'espace et le temps.
Beyond letting us enjoy the splendor of a panorama, an establishing shot is often put at the beginning of a new scene to situate it in space and time.

May 23

transformisme nm - cross-dressing; quick-change
transformiste nm/nf/adj - cross-dresser, related to cross-dressing; quick-change artist

Depuis qu’on fait du cabaret transformiste, beaucoup de gens nous disent “comment les gens réagissent à la campagne ?” et en fait les gens adorent.
Since we started doing cross-dressing shows, a lot of people ask us, "How do people react in the country?" and actually, people love it.

June 10
soyeux/soyeuse adj - silky

On est sur une texture vraiment très, très douce, très soyeuse.
The texture (of the butter) is very soft and silky.

[md0]

die Stube [=das Wohnzimmer, living-room, σαλόνι]
A dated word use, from what I gather? My 70-year old neighbour used it and she had no other word for it to explain it when I didn't understand. Her daughter had to give me the English term (instead of the German synonym, but I can't tell if that's because the daughter also doesn't have Wohnzimmer in her lexicon).

[Car]

Apparently, it's still in use regionally:
https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Stube

If I were to use it at all, it would be in this sense: "[nur immer] rein in die gute Stube! (umgangssprachlich scherzhaft: Aufforderung zum Eintreten) ". I think that's the only context where I've heard people use it.

[md0]

The good Duden stops short of telling us in what regions, sadly, and atlas-alltagssprache.de didn't get to it

From what I know about her, she is originally from "near Leipzig" but also lived the last 30 or 40 years in the east of Berlin. I'll keep my ears open, if the word manages to stick in my brain until next time I hear it.

[Linguaphile]

Wo benutzt man das Wort Stube noch heute? Ich meine nicht in stehenden Begriffen wie „eine gute Kinderstube haben“, „Puppenstube“ oder „Herein in die gute Stube“, sondern als normales Wort für das Zimmer oder Wohnzimmer.

[md0]

Wo benutzt man das Wort Stube noch heute? Ich meine nicht in stehenden Begriffen wie „eine gute Kinderstube haben“, „Puppenstube“ oder „Herein in die gute Stube“, sondern als normales Wort für das Zimmer oder Wohnzimmer.

Nice!

Ja, in Leipzig sagt man das auch häufig.

[md0]

From the same neighbour, today
zickig (bitchy - mostly used against women says Wiktionary, but in this case it was for a man)
bockig (stubborn)

(about a friend of hers after they had a spat today)

EDIT: And I'm being informed by a friend that the cognate of the latter, bockeg additionally means "on heat" (for non-humans) or "horny" (for humans). Quick look in Standard German dictionaries doesn't seem to record such a usage, but maybe it's known in some southern dialects.

[linguoboy]

Wo benutzt man das Wort Stube noch heute? Ich meine nicht in stehenden Begriffen wie „eine gute Kinderstube haben“, „Puppenstube“ oder „Herein in die gute Stube“, sondern als normales Wort für das Zimmer oder Wohnzimmer.

im gesamten oberdeutschen Sprachraum allemal

is what I would have guessed. It was common enough in Freiburg, where a bedroom is even called a "Schlofschdube".

I love learning that it's cognate with stove because the original meaning was "heated room" (which explains why in some dialects it doesn't refer to bedrooms).

This reminds me that I recently learned the word Stubentiger for "housecat".

Now does anyone still use "Kemenate" outside of humorous contexts?

[Car]

Wo benutzt man das Wort Stube noch heute? Ich meine nicht in stehenden Begriffen wie „eine gute Kinderstube haben“, „Puppenstube“ oder „Herein in die gute Stube“, sondern als normales Wort für das Zimmer oder Wohnzimmer.

Wow, I used to be active in that forum way back when. Talk about a blast from the past...

[Dormouse559]

aux trousses de - on sb's heels, in hot pursuit of

Si tu es courageuse, tu en trouveras d'autres. Il y a bien longtemps qu'elles s'enfuient sur les chemins. Et le Taureau de Feu à leurs trousses a recouvert les traces de leurs pas.

Literal: If you are brave, you will find others. Long ago, they fled along the roads. And the Bull of Fire in hot pursuit covered their footprints.

Original English: You can find the others if you are brave. They passed down all the roads long ago. And the Red Bull ran close behind them and covered their footprints.

ETA June 29
épargner v - to save (money, time etc.), to save up

The verb also means "to spare" as in "They spared my life".

Julien, 23 ans, a épargné pour financer son voyage à travers le monde
Julien, 23, saved up to finance his globetrotting trip

August 10
reconnaître v - to identify (a corpse), i.e. formally confirm the identity of a dead body

J'avais peur qu'on m'appelle pour reconnaître le corps de mon fils.
I was afraid they would call me in to identify my son's body.

Generally, reconnaître and "recognize" have the same meanings, but they diverge here.


September 27
compte à rebours nm - countdown

Le compte à rebours a commencé.
The countdown has begun.

[md0]

Erzkonservativ (-e) = ultra-conservative, υπερσυντηρητικός

According to Wiktionary: erz- from AG ἀρχι- and Latin archi- (huh, I can see it now). Originally used in ecclesiastical titles to denote rank, then generalised as an intensifying prefix, often negative. Modern Greek has the same semantic drift (e.g. can be used to intensify insult words), but it just happens that αρχισυντηρητικός is not frequently used (130 hits on Google, and half of them are from machine translations).

[Dormouse559]

Erzkonservativ (-e) = ultra-conservative, υπερσυντηρητικός

According to Wiktionary: erz- from AG ἀρχι- and Latin archi- (huh, I can see it now). Originally used in ecclesiastical titles to denote rank, then generalised as an intensifying prefix, often negative. Modern Greek has the same semantic drift (e.g. can be used to intensify insult words), but it just happens that αρχισυντηρητικός is not frequently used (130 hits on Google, and half of them are from machine translations).

You can also say “archconservative” in English.


marc nm - grounds (of coffee), dregs (of coffee, tea)

Ils transforment le marc de café en pellets de chauffage
They turn coffee grounds into fuel pellets

[linguoboy]

marc nm - grounds (of coffee), dregs (of coffee, tea)

Ils transforment le marc de café en pellets de chauffage
They turn coffee grounds into fuel pellets

Marc also refers to the pomace left over from pressing grapes for wine and the grappa-like spirit made from them. Both are sometimes called "marc" in English.

[Linguaphile]

estulticia
foolishness, stupidity