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For me, it’s “queso”. 🧀

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Juust (estonian)

[–] OwnOh@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] merjalane@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 hours ago

Сыр (syr)

[–] Lootboblin@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago
[–] RicoPeru@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

natively, cheese and queso

also, queijo in my third language, and formaggio, fromage, ser, сыр, and queixo (not fluent)

then, in the languages i wanna know more of: チーズ、奶酪/起司,جبنة

[–] SonofaBixcuit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago

ayyyy جبنة twins!!

[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] SonofaBixcuit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

my parents’ language, we say 奶酪 or جبنة

growing up, from others it’d be ser or queso.

in my Grandpa’s language would say: גבינה but he also spoke arabic

(i only know a little Chinese and Arabic. i can write a little in Chinese but can’t write in Arabic at all.)

[–] noolu@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

formaggio 🤌

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 21 hours ago

Das ist Käse.

Btw: This saying is used in case something is stupid :)

[–] cute_noker@feddit.dk 5 points 23 hours ago
[–] jaiden 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] sjmulder@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 21 hours ago

Kéés (Texels Dutch, my wife’s home dialect)

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] PartyPatella@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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!

[–] PartyPatella@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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".

[–] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 2 points 21 hours ago

At least plugging them all into Google translate, the pronunciations are actually all pretty similar, with Swedish being the most dissimilar

[–] Defectus@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Svorte Sara, that's some stinky shit. Every time we were over to helsingør or køpenhavn my parents bought stinky cheese with them home to ruin the fridge.

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[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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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[–] notso@feddit.org 15 points 1 day ago

Käse (Germany)

[–] CaptainsLog@lemmings.world 29 points 1 day ago (5 children)
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[–] doctortofu@reddthat.com 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ser (in Polish.Pronounced similarly to "sir" in"yes sir")

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[–] ElCrusher@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 19 hours ago
[–] aguasemgas@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 1 day ago

Queijo (PT-BR)

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[–] gorkur@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago
[–] Blodruselur@lemm.ee 2 points 21 hours ago
[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

We call it the same thing as butter. Shit gets confusing sometimes

[–] peterg75@discuss.online 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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