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Re:Does Not Translate by irrational on Friday January 14, 2022 @07:41PM (#29942423)
https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=Joie+de+vivr...

It has been estimated that English has more than a million words, what percentage do you think you actually know?

Re:Does Not Translate by awb on Friday January 14, 2022 @11:22PM (#29943509)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-44569277

> Typically native speakers know 15,000 to 20,000 word families - or lemmas - in their first language.

Sounds about right to me.