untranslatable

IPA: ʌntrænzɫˈeɪtʌbʌɫ

A word or phrase that is impossible to translate satisfactorily from one language to another.

Examples of "untranslatable" in Sentences

“Kayf” is a word untranslatable in our mother-tongue!
Anyway, let's leave it as intriguingly untranslatable.
Hando Runnel is a major poet of an untranslatable kind.
It was the word I was interested in as an untranslatable.
It is untranslatable and hence pointless in an article in English.
I suppose it's just one of those things untranslatable into English...
But this would mostly be for untranslatable things like Character names.
The case of Mikhail Garybrandy is a prime example of an untranslatable spoof.
Besides, many authors consider a word untranslatable when there isn't an exact one-word equivalent.
But after an evening flipping through them, I've begun to think of them as "so-called untranslatable words," because one way or another, they can all be translated.
However, Lanugage Log and Languagehat, guys with a lot more linguistic expertise than I have, advise to take the information in books of "untranslatable" words with a grain of salt.
The Kalakistan Fragment, supposedly untranslatable, is thought to detail the life of Gung the Magnificent who nearly conquered the world in 1932 B.C. using “supernatural powers derived from a fabulous melon-size jewel.”
Because he can find no noisy, clattering, dish-smashing restaurant, full of acrobatic waiters racing and balancing under immense piles of plates, and shouting jargon untranslatable, unintelligible and unpronounceable down into the lower kitchen, he cannot, cannot eat.