HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-210 months agoYou know when something's on the tip of your tongue and — as frustrating as it is — you'd prefer to try and think of it rather than look it up? There should be a word for that.message-squaremessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1103arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up198arrow-down1message-squareYou know when something's on the tip of your tongue and — as frustrating as it is — you'd prefer to try and think of it rather than look it up? There should be a word for that.HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-210 months agomessage-square18fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareexixx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down1·10 months agoThere’s probably a word for it in German or Swedish. I bet it’s long and hard to pronounce, maybe with a non-English pronunciation symbol.
minus-squarejasep@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoGoogle translate says “Zungenspitze” is the German word for “tip of tongue”.
minus-squarecmbabul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoI’d be surprised if there isn’t a German word for it
minus-square𝚝𝚛𝚔@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·10 months agoI think it’s “tipphoffzetongue”
There’s probably a word for it in German or Swedish. I bet it’s long and hard to pronounce, maybe with a non-English pronunciation symbol.
Google translate says “Zungenspitze” is the German word for “tip of tongue”.
There isn’t one in German.
I’d be surprised if there isn’t a German word for it
I think it’s “tipphoffzetongue”