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Brânză
چیز
Käse
Is this Swiss or Austrian?
Ost!
That's Swedish isn't it?
My dad had this brilliant idea for everyone to say "cheese" in the local language every time he took a selfie of us when we were travelling around Europe. Let's just say even though that was years ago in my childhood, I can look through that album and know instantly which photos were taken in Sweden!
I was referring to Danish, but indeed it seems the same spelling also applies for Norwegian and Swedish. But quite different pronounciations, I would think. In Danish, you would say "åst" with an "å"- which everyone naturally knows how to pronounce of course.
Haha, yes, that's brilliant. We even do that here from time to time. One indeed does look dapper saying "OOOST".
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Kaas.
Fun fact: New York was founded by the Dutch. A curse word for a Dutch guy was "Jan Kaas", which changed over the years to "Yankees".
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Käse (Germany)
Gazta (in Basque)
芝士 (it's pronounced similar to cheese in English)
In Mandarin: zhishi
In Cantonese: zisi
Sir
I shall start calling mine Sir Cheese.
hello wildcats
You know
Seemingly a cooking show with industrial shit and a microwave, I don't. It must be british, is it not?
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Kaas
My language is already taken so here's another language where I know the word: 奶酪 (nailao), first character meaning milk, second one I had to look up for the definition: "semi-solid food made from milk"
In NZ English... "Cheese". Though we do have a term "tasty" for a 12-18 month aged cheddar cheese that I don't think is commonly used elsewhere. At the supermarket you're likely to see "mild" or "tasty" not "cheddar".
In Māori, "tīhi". It's a transliteration of "cheese" into a language that has neither a "ch" nor a "s" sound.
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peynir
Syr
Keju
queijo
brânză
Hours upon hours of pain and farts
Bob. We call him Bob