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What are some Russian words? I'm bilingual but I can't think of one offhand.
There's 'Razliubit' (to fall out of love) but I believe that's the only one mentioned in this book.
Ah. Well, there is a translation - to fall out of love - it's just not one word.
They meant untranslatable in one word, I think in the end you can translate almost any word, although 'gezellig' is perhaps really untranslatable.
I suppose some words mean concepts or things that don't exist in the other language/culture. I tried literary translation (I translated a novella by my favorite Russian writer Alexander Grin, and it's available on my website) and encountered such a phenomenon. You can always get around it, substituting similar things or images that are familiar to the readers of the target tongue.
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