Commonly-Used Gratuitous Foreign Words
- Au revoir: Meaning "goodbye".
- Bonjour: Meaning "hello".
- C'est la vie: Meaning, "It's life", and used when something doesn't go your way, in a similar way to "No use crying over spilled milk."
- Derriere: Meaning "butt".
- Fromage: Meaning "cheese".
- La or le: Meaning "the" and commonly used to make things sound fancier.
- Moi: Meaning "me". Often used by characters in a dismissive way, akin to "Who, me?".
- Parlez vous?: Meaning "Do you speak?".
- Sacre bleu: Stereotypical French exclamation.
- Sil vous plait?: Meaning "please" in formal French.
- Danke: Meaning "thank you".
- Gesundheit: Literally meaning "good health", but used when somebody sneezes in a similar way to "bless you" in English. We have a trope named after it for when a character mistakes an unfamiliar word for a sneeze.
- Nein: Meaning "no".
- Any of the letters, used to rank things. "Iota" also means "a small amount".
- Eureka: Literally means "I found it", but usually used to mean "I've had an epiphany", because Archimedes said it when he made a scientific discovery.
Italian
- Bella: Meaning "beautiful".
- Bene: Meaning "good".
- Baka: Meaning "idiot". It even has its own Useful Notes page.
- Chibi: Meaning "short" and used to refer to a type of cute art style.
- Kawaii: Meaning "cute", and referring to a subculture that revolves around cuteness.
- Nakama: Meaning "friend" and sometimes used to mean True Companions.
- Nyan: Meaning "meow". Popularised by Nyan Cat.
- -san, -chan, -kun, etc. — See Japanese Honorifics for more information.
- Sayonara: Meaning "goodbye". Sometimes used by characters as an emphatic goodbye, similar to "So long, suckers".
- Any taxonomic name for an animal.
- Ergo: Meaning "therefore" and commonly used for a nerdy character explaining something.
Russian
- Nyet: Meaning "no".
- Adios: Meaning "goodbye", and like "sayonara", it's sometimes used for emphasis.
- Amigo: Meaning "friend". Sometimes used as Terms of Endangerment by villains.
- Amor: Meaning "love".
- Caca: Meaning "poop".
- Casa: Meaning "house".
- El or la: The masculine and feminine forms of "the" respectively.
- Feliz Navidad: Meaning "happy Christmas", and probably popularised by the Christmas carol of the same name.
- Grande: Meaning "big".
- Hola: Meaning "hello".
- Loco: Meaning "crazy".
- Nada: Meaning "nothing", and often used to emphasise that there is nothing, in a similar way to "zilch" or "bupkis".
- Numero uno: Meaning "number one".
- Puta: Meaning "whore".
- Te amo: Meaning "I love you".
- Vida: Meaning "life", probably popularised by the song "Livin' La Vida Loca".
