--- title: Language Infographic: 10 Useful Words That Don't Exist in English description: Infographic shows cool words in German, Persian, Japanese and more canonical: https://time.com/14894/10-words-that-dont-exist-in-english-infographic/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-07T13:30:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:07:34.312Z og:title: This Chart Shows 10 Very Useful Words That Don't Exist In English (But Should) og:description: Cool words in German, Persian, Japanese and more og:url: https://time.com/14894/10-words-that-dont-exist-in-english-infographic/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Chart Shows 10 Very Useful Words That Don't Exist In English (But Should) twitter:description: Cool words in German, Persian, Japanese and more twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 10 Very Useful, Specific Words That Don't Exist In English by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 7, 2014 1:30 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Mar 7, 2014 1:30 PM UTC Have you ever tried to express a complicated feeling or situation, but just couldn’t find the word you needed? Sometimes English just kind of falls flat when you need a really specific but succinct way to describe something. This infographic shows 10 words that exist in _other_ languages that we totally wished existed in English too. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/14894/10-words-that-dont-exist-in-english-infographic/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/14894/10-words-that-dont-exist-in-english-infographic/"},"headline":"10 Very Useful, Specific Words That Don't Exist In English","datePublished":"2014-03-07T13:30:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:34.312Z","description":"But they should","url":"https://time.com/14894/10-words-that-dont-exist-in-english-infographic/","keywords":["Newsfeed","infographic","Japanese","Words","English","german","french"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/14894/10-words-that-dont-exist-in-english-infographic/","name":"10 Very Useful, Specific Words That Don't Exist In English"}}]}] ```