Bilingual people of Internet, what is the weirdest direct translation you can think of?

There’s a few fun ones from German. The German word for ambulance is directly “sick-car” and a hospital is “sick house”. Mittens are hand-shoes. A lightbulb is glow pear.

Apple – Pomme

Potato – Pomme de Terre

Land – Terre

So, in French, Potato is called a land apple.

Chinchin(ちんちん) as we all know mean penis in Japanese.

But apparently in Italy cin-cin(still pronounced the same way) means “Cheers!”

Really no way to make a funny translation but I’m just going to leave you with that knowledge

企鹅 is penguin in Chinese and it’s direct translation is business goose

So, not bilingual, but I took a Spanish class a few years ago and learned the difference between “Papa” and “papa” the hard way. I wrote an entire essay on how a potato leads the Catholic Church.