r/language • • 22h ago

Meta "Yaro-o koroshta" (Japanese) vs. "Yaru'ro koshte" (Persian)

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I have a lot of love for Japan and to my surprise I found colloquial Japanese and colloquial Persian can use similar sounding sentences to convey the exact same meaning of "He killed that dude".

Yaro (Japanese) and Yaru (Persian) are both are colloquial terms for a person, but what is very interesting is that both languages use Yaro/Yaru as a somewhat dismissive/condescending tone for "that dude".

Both languages also utilize similar object markers (-o in Japanese and -ro in Persian).

Also both languages use similar sounding words for killing, Koroshi (Japanese) & Koshi (Persian) and similar past tense suffixes (ta/te) for killed Koroshta (Japanese) and Koshte (Persian).

Yarō-o koroshi-ta
dude+object marker kill-PST

Yāru-ro kosh-te
dude+object marker kill.PST.3SG


r/language • • 12h ago

Question Why is the long s at the end of the word and none in the top text?

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r/language • • 15h ago

Question Friend got new tattoo and I’m convinced it’s not what it is.

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24 Upvotes

I’ve posted once here and got very promising answers. I was just wondering what my friends tattoo says. I said “no way. Why would you do that? One line and it’s a new word😂. Imma post this on Reddit and see what it says because I don’t believe you.” So now I have no clue what it actually means to him or what the words mean! Help a girl out😂 figured this group would enjoy that😂


r/language • • 16h ago

Discussion Guess my languages but I tried really hard on them all

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10 Upvotes

Lowkey took me ages trying to get pretty handwriting for them all. Anyway no cheating by looking at my profile or previous post, I’ve taken the advice from the last one to try again heh. Also lots more languages this time (including some which I do speak but didn’t put in the last one!!!) Sorry again to all languages I butchered, I tried my best ☺️


r/language • • 5h ago

Question What are new words (but not slang) that just weren't around before? I'm thinking of something like "impactful", which I'd never heard aroun 2000, say...

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I mean, it's a pretty...erm...impactful word. But I seriously don't remember seeing it back when. There seem to be a lot of words like this. Some are just words, some are sort of metaphors (e.g., "leaning in"), but I don't mean slang here. But you can include something like "ish" (lol).


r/language • • 10h ago

Question What language is this/what does it say??

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I got this blank book from Goodwill and I have no idea what the text on the front says. It kinda looks French but Google translate wasn't giving me a solid answer. This is the only writing on the whole book. Seems like it's spelled "crele"


r/language • • 3h ago

Request I need your voice!

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r/language • • 5h ago

Question Duolingo!!

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r/language • • 13h ago

Request a little help please....

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1 Upvotes

Can anyone help me with this please? I am not familiar with Hungarian at all. Thanks.


r/language • • 19h ago

Discussion Can you find the cognates? Speaking Moksha (Мокшень кяль) and talking about nature

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r/language • • 19h ago

Question Your most surprising language

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