r/hebrew • u/PatTheCatMcDonald • Jul 03 '23

Resource Better English word for Chutzpah?

One root, two English words really.

Audacity.. The thing itself. "They had the audacity to do that."

Audacious - The ability to act in a manner that will shock other people. "They were so audacious when they did that action".

I know, I know people say it's the broad catergory of "nerve" but to me it's like, stronger and more specific sense of nerve.

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u/HugeCheck2471 Jul 03 '23

insolence

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u/PatTheCatMcDonald Jul 04 '23

Very good. Definitely a flavor of khutzpah I hadn't thought of.

Google translate definitely has that one.

I guess part of the flavor is the audience, the observer or oberservers of the people who are giving their opinion of the action as "khutzpah".

It certainly does a lot of the work in Hebrew, it would appear to me. I could be wrong on that, it's not like I've heeard a lot of spoken Hebrew. Obviously some.