The Word of The Week
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- Sep 11, 2018
- 1 min read

Mångata is impossible to directly translate from Swedish, but roughly, it describes the road-like reflection of the moon on the water.
It is just one of the many beautiful, untranslatable words collected and amazingly illustrated by Anjana Iyer in 'Found in Translation'.
Each of these beautiful words describe something that everyone would recognise in everyday life but maybe never had the right word to properly describe it - now you can.
This is a link with the illustrations and the words:
https://www.boredpanda.com/untranslatable-words-found-in-translation-anjana-iyer/