1348: Hakuna Matata Aug 20, 2018

The kiSwahili phrase that was popularized in the West by The Lion King, "hakuna matata" does mean "no worries", but if one were to try and translate 'no' into kiSwahili, the word might appear as 'hapana'. This is because some languages distinguish between 'no' for quantities, and as an exclamation, such as in the German 'nein' ('no', the exclamation) and 'kein' ('no' for quantities), or the above example from kiSwahili where 'hakuna' is only for quantities. Other languages, like English (no) and Finnish (ei), use the same word for both.

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