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by valenterry 2006 days ago
It has no 1:1 translation, but that's true the other way around too for a lot of nuanced words.

E.g.: silly, ridiculous, foolish In Germany you have: albern, lächerlich, töricht

They are quite close to the English ones, but not exact the same. It's the other way around too: English doesn't have words that match the German ones 1:1