How to say “all” in 53 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 Tamil, where நீங்கள் is the 2nd most used word.
- Afrikaans almal all; everyone #98
- Albanian gjithë all, everybody #59
- Arabic جميع whole, entire, all #171
- Armenian բարի all right!, very well!, agreed!, OK #55
- Basque guztia everything, all of that #105
- Bengali সব #47
- Bosnian baš at all, truly, really, exactly #116
- Bulgarian всичко neuter singular of вси́чък: everything, all #49
- Catalan tots all; everyone #87
- Chinese 所有 #30
- Croatian baš at all, truly, really, exactly #120
- Czech všichni #125
- Danish alle #59
- Dutch al all, all of #68
- English about In a circle around; all round; on every side… #51
- Esperanto ĉiam at all times, always #99
- Estonian kõik #27
- Finnish asti up to, all the way to #410
- French tout #45
- Galician non no, not, not at all #4
- Georgian სულ completely, entirely, all, the whole of #101
- German alles everything; all #69
- Greek εντάξει OK, all right, in order #48
- Hebrew כל All, whole, entirety, everything; found… #16
- Hindi सब #61
- Hungarian rendben all right, okay #48
- Icelandic allt everybody, everyone, all #21
- Indonesian semua #38
- Italian tutto #43
- Korean 다 all, completely #17
- Latvian viss all, everything, anything #44
- Lithuanian visi everyone, all of them #75
- Macedonian сите entire, whole, all #54
- Malay semua #30
- Malayalam നിങ്ങൾ you all #24
- Norwegian alt everything, all, anything #66
- Persian همه #28
- Polish wszyscy #131
- Portuguese toda every; all #183
- Romanian toate all, the whole #113
- Russian ладно well, all right, okay #79
- Serbian baš at all, truly, really, exactly #108
- Slovak stále always, all the time #80
- Slovenian sploh at all #120
- Spanish todo all; every #39
- Swedish okej okay, all right #62
- Tagalog lahat all; everyone; everybody #27
- Tamil நீங்கள் you, you all #2
- Telugu అన్ని #18
- Turkish hepsi all, all of it, the whole #213
- Ukrainian все all, everything #14
- Urdu سب #33
- Vietnamese cả #55
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.