I have some interesting notes on this list from a linguistic-y standpoint!
Basically just cool stuff!
In Japanese, some of the verbs listed here, such as “want,” are conjugated with another verb or act more like adjectives.
There is at least one language, I believe, where to give and to receive is generally the same verb.
I’m not sure be is a verb, actually; I believe it mostly attaches to verbs, and so it’d be harder to translate into some languages
The ‘that’ examples given here fill two entirely different linguistic roles, even in English! “I think that” precedes an entire phrase that (usually) would be valid as a sentence on its own, and then you have a complete sentence, for instance: “I think that dogs chase cats.” On the other hand, “The woman that” would have a verb and maybe an object after it, like “The woman that won” or “The woman that won the race,” but not a fully valid sentence. In addition, you have to add a new verb and object (in English) to make a sentence from it, like “The woman that won bowed to her parents.” In some (maybe even most?) languages, these would be entirely different words.
While the concepts do exist and can be expressed in some way, in Japanese there is (supposedly) no more than___ less than____, although something meaning “number one” can be used to mean most or best.
Some of the items in the adjectives list are called determiners in English, and aren’t necessary in all languages (unlike in English!) [if you’re interested, you can have multiple adjectives, like big green car, but not multiple determiners, like the a car or the some car]
just as a warning, if you’re learning a language try to determine if it has counters. In English we have a few items we need a counter for, like grains of sand or x weight/volume of sand (not just 1 sand, 4 sands). Some languages have a lot, and some have a generic counter you can use so you don’t need to learn all of them right away!
Some languages, like Korean, have many, many more terms for even close family like uncles and grandparents than we do--and some have less. I think I’d recommend looking for a family tree in your language instead of trying to translate any one specific term. In general, also, many languages have different terms depending on the relation to your father or mother they have, and whether someone is younger or older than you, so that’s the main things to look for.
While they aren’t here, especially if you want to look for critique, “sentence” is another useful noun! (Is this sentence good? What is wrong with this sentence?)
And lastly a comment based on my own language-learning: while you want to learn these 200ish concepts, the Leipzig-Jakarta list has 100 mostly common or basic terms including some of these, and having this list handy in case they come up might be better than looking through a dictionary potentially multiple times to remember “dog” or “red.”
vaporwave
germansingergirl
romaincrisis
tangentwithtanner
janainaart
gummygunk
turnnoffyourmind
