A Dutch word I learnt recently is samenleving [‘samənlevɪŋ], which means society or community. It comes from samenleven (to live together, co-exist), from samen (together) and leven (to live), and could be literally translated as “together-living” [source]. Some related words include: anderhalvemetersamenleving = ‘one and a half meter society’, in which (almost) everyone keeps a […]