How to say “age” in 42 languages
Every one of these is a word that turns up in ordinary speech, not a dictionary curiosity — the number beside it is where it ranks in that language.
It is commonest in Telugu, where పాత is the 104th most used word.
- Afrikaans leeftyd #1,465
- Albanian koha #214
- Armenian հարսնացու a girl of marriageable age #1,488
- Basque adin #756
- Bengali ওমর age, life #1,039
- Bulgarian възраст #1,134
- Catalan edat #863
- Chinese 年代 age; era; period #675
- Czech dobu #547
- Danish alder #1,293
- Dutch leeftijd #1,323
- Esperanto aĝo #953
- Estonian east #2,320
- French âge #723
- Galician idade #690
- Georgian ზეობა heyday, golden age, renaissance,… #622
- German alte age, old age #587
- Greek ηλικία #1,004
- Hebrew גיל age, period #1,141
- Hindi उम्र #851
- Hungarian évesen at, at the age of, at age #2,383
- Icelandic öld #1,353
- Indonesian usia age, lifespan #1,226
- Italian età #1,838
- Korean 나이 age of a person or other living thing #758
- Latvian jaunu having relatively low age, young, new #509
- Macedonian возраст #1,593
- Malay umur #804
- Malayalam വയസ്സ് #489
- Norwegian alder #1,423
- Persian سن #743
- Polish wieku #923
- Portuguese idade #790
- Romanian perioadă period, age #1,316
- Slovenian starost old age #1,285
- Spanish edad #727
- Swedish ålder age; how old something or someone is #1,309
- Tagalog edad #1,166
- Telugu పాత of or pertaining to old age #104
- Turkish yaşında -year-old, at the age of #566
- Urdu سن #279
- Vietnamese tuổi #465
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.