TIL That 'Koi No Yokan' in Japanese means knowing you are eventually going to fall in love with someone after you've just met - there is no equivalent English translation : r/todayilearned
These words describe love, desire, and relationships that have no real English translation but they capture subtle realities that even English speakers have felt once or twice. Okay. I also used to have (and in some senses still do have) this fascination with "untranslatable" terms. In any case, the conceptions given by them are often interesting. But the title of this post gives a pretty good translation into English of the Japanese phrase. (Note it is not a single word; another example in the linked-to page, the French la douleur exquise is also a phrase and not a single word). Koi means "love"; yokan means "premonition"; no is a noun-linking or possessive particle. The phrase can be quite transparently translated as "love's premonition." At least la douleur exquise ("the exquisite pain") is a little more opaque, in that it doesn't directly semantically refer to the object of the pain. But it does refer to a painful feeling. It's not like these concepts are alien to English speakers;