a certain something, je ne sais quoi (intangible quality that makes something distinctive)
eş: Dieu sait quoi, on ne sait quoi
köken: Literally, “I don't know what”.
🔊 Si tu l'as, tu l'as, Ella elle l'a / Ce je ne sais quoi / Que d'autres n'ont pas
pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of não sei o quê; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling
certain something, je ne sais quoi (often in the partitive singular) (intangible quality that makes something distinctive or attractive).
köken: se (“that”) jokin (“something”)
🔊 Hänessä on sitä jotakin.
vyjadřuje nejistotu, pochybnost, neznalost týkající se nějakého předmětu
eş: čertvíco, kdovíco, nevímco, čertvíco, kdovíco, nevímco
je ne sais quoi (an indefinable quality)
çekim: çoğul no-sé-quès
köken: Literally, “I don't know what”.
that (far from the speaker and listener)
çekim: çoğul aqueles
köken: Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese aquel, from Vulgar Latin *eccum ille, a compound of Latin eccum and ille. Cognate with Portuguese aquele and Spanish aquel, among others.
🔊 Quen é aquel home?