Lexical Gap: When Your Language Has the Word English Doesn't
A lexical gap is a concept a language has no single word for, even though the concept itself is ordinary. Bilingual writers hit these gaps daily: the exact word exists in your first language but not in English. Here are the main types with examples, how a gap differs from untranslatability, and a workflow that lets you keep writing instead of stopping to hunt for a word that is not there.
