How to say “amount” in 31 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 Turkish, where kadar is the 21st most used word.
- Arabic مزيد more, an extra amount or extent #616
- Bengali প্রচুর great in amount #712
- Bulgarian сума sum, amount #2,117
- Czech množství quantity, amount #1,814
- Danish anelse a very small amount of something #1,696
- Dutch aantal countable amount #980
- English tell To determine the number, amount, or value of #97
- Estonian vähem a small amount, a little #607
- Finnish verran much, about, the ... amount #2,020
- Galician chisco a bit, a small amount #1,977
- Greek ποσό amount, quantity, sum #2,334
- Hebrew שיעור measure, amount #1,334
- Hindi ज़रा a little, a small amount of #1,812
- Hungarian rengeteg an enormous amount of, loads of, a great… #734
- Icelandic stund an undetermined amount of time, a while #490
- Indonesian biaya cost: amount of money that is required or used #1,143
- Korean 이상 an amount more than #192
- Latvian skaits amount, number, quantity #1,872
- Lithuanian kiekis quantity, amount #2,093
- Malay usia The amount of time that some being has been… #1,328
- Malayalam പലിശ interest; the extra amount you have to pay… #1,578
- Norwegian tilgang supply; An amount of something supplied #1,871
- Persian مقدار amount, quantity #568
- Polish ile denotes amount; how much, how many #220
- Russian уровень level, standard, amount #1,665
- Slovenian znesek quantity, amount od money #1,536
- Tagalog gaano how; what quantity or amount; how much #447
- Turkish kadar Equal in amount or quantity; as much as #21
- Ukrainian кількість quantity, number, amount #1,962
- Urdu تعداد quantity, amount, number #798
- Vietnamese lượng quantity; amount #586
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.