What is “cheese” called in your language?

Cheese

Yup. Though we call cheese sauce queso.
- As someone who grew up bilingual, this has caused so much unnecessary confusion in my life. Maybe not queso so much but salsa, which is the word for any kind of sauce in Spanish. If I’m running on autopilot and my wife asks me to pick up tomato salsa I will almost invariably get spaghetti sauce. It’s fucked!

Ost!

That's Swedish isn't it?
My dad had this brilliant idea for everyone to say "cheese" in the local language every time he took a selfie of us when we were travelling around Europe. Let's just say even though that was years ago in my childhood, I can look through that album and know instantly which photos were taken in Sweden!
- I was referring to Danish, but indeed it seems the same spelling also applies for Norwegian and Swedish. But quite different pronounciations, I would think. In Danish, you would say "åst" with an "å"- which everyone naturally knows how to pronounce of course.
  Haha, yes, that's brilliant. We even do that here from time to time. One indeed does look dapper saying "OOOST".
Yes, this.

Käse

Is this Swiss or Austrian?

« Fromage ».

Oh, Dexter!
- https://youtu.be/CPKf2LjU6Gs
  Ah biblioteque

Сир

Syr

Ukrainian? Or no? That’s so cool!
- Ukrainian

Kaas.

Fun fact: New York was founded by the Dutch. A curse word for a Dutch guy was "Jan Kaas", which changed over the years to "Yankees".

Fun fact: folk etymologies are always lies.
I've also heard that 'gringo' derives from people telling green-clad soldiers to go away (green, go)
I've heard that 'fuck' is an acronym for 'fornication under consent of the king'
All nonsense of course.
- Not all etymologies are lies, words do have origins.
  Just because you heard some stories which were false doesn't mean all stories are false.
  On this wiki page it is explained that linguistics do believe the word Yankee comes from Jan Kees or Jan Kaas. It explains it can also come from the name Janneke, which is a new to me.

Käse (Germany)

Kaas 🇳🇱

Kaas 🇿🇦

Gazta (in Basque)

Ser (in Polish.Pronounced similarly to "sir" in"yes sir")

happy cake day!

Sajt

Bojler eladó
- Fodrász vagyok
- Csere ps3-ra ?

Chääs

Hi fellow swiss german;)
- Hoi :)

Fwomaj

I though you where not serious, but in doubt I had a look. TIL!
- Yon ti kras. Ou pale kreyòl?

Fromage!

芝士 (it's pronounced similar to cheese in English)

In Mandarin: zhishi
In Cantonese: zisi

My language is already taken so here's another language where I know the word: 奶酪 (nailao), first character meaning milk, second one I had to look up for the definition: "semi-solid food made from milk"

Ost

Das ist Käse.

Btw: This saying is used in case something is stupid :)

Sir

I shall start calling mine Sir Cheese.

cheese, queso, or queijo

¡queso!

Kaas

hello wildcats
- You know

Queijo (PT-BR)

peynir

There’s bound to be a bunch of variations of panir, paneer, peynir etc. around. All of us central Asians call it something like that.

formaggio 🤌

In NZ English... "Cheese". Though we do have a term "tasty" for a 12-18 month aged cheddar cheese that I don't think is commonly used elsewhere. At the supermarket you're likely to see "mild" or "tasty" not "cheddar".

In Māori, "tīhi". It's a transliteration of "cheese" into a language that has neither a "ch" nor a "s" sound.

So it's labelled "tasty cheese"?
That suggests that you can only buy cheddar there. No other types of cheese.
- Other types of cheese are available, it's just that cheddar is not clearly labeled as such since it's kind of the "default".
  E.g.

Syr

Keju

queijo

Ostur

チーズ

Caws.

Dyna ti!

We call it the same thing as butter. Shit gets confusing sometimes

"formatge" here!

Juusto

Finnish? I had something called leipa juusto in Finland and it was a very interesting experience
- Yes. Leipäjuusto (literally bread cheese) is like the only uniquely Finnish type of cheese that I can think of. Very mild and very squeaky
  Also, to any anglophones reading, the j is pronounced like y, so it'd sound like "yuusto" to your ears