Relationship Words That Aren’t Translatable Into English
La Douleur Exquise (French): The heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can’t have
Cafuné (Brazilian Portuguese): The act of tenderly running your fingers through someone’s hair.
Ya’aburnee (Arabic): “You bury me.” It’s a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person, because of how difficult it would be to live without them.
The online dictionary that lists this word calls it “morbid and beautiful.” It’s the “How Could I Live Without You?” slickly insincere cliché of dating, polished into a more earnest, poetic term.
