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    No way! It's called cheese in my language too. crazy.

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    Damn, that's crazy. My language too.

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    Fromage - French (with other informal words such as "fromton" or "claquos")

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Omelette du fromage.

    The only French I know, thanks to Dexter's Laboratory.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It's also incorrect! The dish is omelette au fromage. That's because it's an omelette with cheese and not of cheese.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Thank you, I knew what it meant to say, but my auto-translate (in my brain) pictured a disc of fried cheese initially, and I was wondering why it felt wrong. I know just enough French to get myself into trouble.

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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Queso - Spanish

    Cheese - English

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    "Too expensive."

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Sir ( Croatian/Bosnian/Serbian )

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Caws 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

    (Actually I'm English so that's not my language, I just happened to know that one in Welsh)

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sajt. Funny enough sajt is my default test word eg.: is google working let me search for sajt

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Panir/paneer - Kurdish

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    جبنة/gebna (Arabic, will vary by dialect).

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    Ser (pronounced like in "Yes, sir!")

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Keeze (Dutch Lower Saxon).

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Queijo (pronounced 'keijo')

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    奶酪 (nai3 lao4) - Mandarin Chinese

    сирење (sirenje) - Macedonian (soft white cheeses) кашкавал (kashkaval) - Macedonian (firm yellow cheeses)

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Fromaĝo (Esperanto 💚⭐)

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    Kaas - Dutch

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    Juusto - Finnish

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    It’s nice that you credit who asked the original question, but you could just cross post their original post

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    If you want a quick overview, Wikipedia can also help: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4se#/languages

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Le fromage ! Men it's like thoose french guys have a whole other languages ! Source

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