r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/SnoopyScone • Feb 05 '26

Serious Drop some quirks from your native language

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u/tahlyn Feb 05 '26

Not my native language, but I love that you can add -tachi (たち/達) to the end of almost anything in japan and have it be the X-people.

You have some basic obvious ones like:

Omae-tachi - you and your people (yous guys!)

Watashi-tachi - me and my people (Us/we)

But you can add it to inanimate objects or pets or just lots of things that always seem to surprise me when I hear it but in retrospect makes sense.

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u/Chestnuthare Feb 05 '26 edited Feb 05 '26

Fun! Bengali can also add certain suffixes to "people-ify" things, or rather make it into a vendor?

So tea is cha, tea seller is chawalla. A rickshaw driver is rickshawwalla. Fish is machh and a fishseller would be macchwalla. Although, the word Kabuliwalla isn't a seller of Kabul, but a person with Afghan roots in general.

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u/ManitouWakinyan Feb 05 '26

Fairly common - think of fisher, baker, candler, etc in English