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The answer, though not so obvious, is that there is no answer. For any given English word, there may be an exact translation in some other language, but unless one knows ALL of the other languages, one cannot ascertain whether such an exact translation exists.
This is NOT the same as asking whether any word in another language has an exact translation into English. A person with deep knowledge of German, French, Swahili, Tlingit, or any other language and who also has a good knowledge of English can find a word for which there is no English equivalent.
Someone here will have a name for this fallacious logic thing. I don't.
TEd
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