The English language has more words than any other, partly because it has borrowed words from many other tongues. But it doesn’t have a word for everything!   So I vote that we add a few more to fill a few of the gaps.

How about ‘hyggelig’ (Danish), meaning ‘comfy, cosy, intimate and contented’?

Or ‘sombremesa’ (Spanish), ‘after-lunch conversation around the table’? which might however sound less interesting if you are experiencing ‘abbiocco’, the Italian for ‘drowsiness from eating a big meal’…

I think the most useful word we could borrow, though, (can be applied to all sorts of situations, from relationships to organisations to politics), is the German word ‘verschlimmbessern’ – ‘to make something worse when trying to improve it’…

(With thanks to the excellent website babbel.com – check it out if you want to learn a new language! The clever,?multilingual people there have started to collect unique words from around the globe).