How to say “any” in 49 different 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.
- 任何/ɻən⁵¹ xɤ³⁵/ Chinese
- რაიმე[ɾäime̞] Georgian
- որևէ/ˈvoɾeve/ Armenian
- কোনো/kono/ Bengali
- любий[ˈlʲubei̯] Ukrainian
- کوئی/koː.iː/ Urdu
“any” in Chinese: 任何
It is commonest in Urdu, where کوئی is the 32nd most used word.
Any in other languages, A to Z
- Afrikaans geen/χɪə̯n/ no, not a, not an, not any #92
- Albanian më/mə/ more, some more, any more #8
- Arabic قرية/qar.ja/ any populated area or the community thereof #1,633
- Armenian որևէ/ˈvoɾeve/ #662
- Basque edozein/edos̻ei̯n/ #308
- Bengali কোনো/kono/ #129
- Bosnian ikada/îkada/ ever, at any time #484
- Bulgarian все[fsɛ] every, any #104
- Catalan ja[ʒa] already, any more #45
- Chinese 任何/ɻən⁵¹ xɤ³⁵/ any; all #52
- Croatian ikada/îkada/ ever, at any time #467
- Czech každopádně[ˈkaʒdopaːdɲɛ] in any case, in any event, either way #1,411
- Danish enhver/enˈvɛɐ̯ˀ/ any, every, each #824
- Dutch geen/ɣeːn/ no, not a, not an, not any #42
- English no/noʊ/ Not any #27
- Esperanto moŝto/ˈmoʃto/ translates any noble style, either alone or… #300
- Estonian iga/ˈiɡ̊ɑ/ #195
- Finnish mitään/ˈmitæːn/ anything, any; nothing, no #45
- French aucun/o.kœ̃/ no, none, not any #324
- Galician calquera/kalˈkeɾa/ any; whichever; whatever #222
- Georgian რაიმე[ɾäime̞] any, anything #357
- German keine/ˈkaɪ̯nə/ no; not a; not one; not any #71
- Greek ποτέ/poˈte/ ever; at any time #82
- Hebrew עוד/ʕawd/ still, longer, more; no longer, no more, any… #73
- Hindi कोई/koː.iː/ some, certain, any #47
- Hungarian jobb[ˈjobː] construed with szeretne in any person and… #140
- Indonesian lagi/ˈlaɡi/ again, anew, anymore; any longer #47
- Italian più/ˈpju/ anymore, any longer #78
- Korean 것[kʌ̹t̚] thing; something; that which; what; used to… #27
- Latvian vairs/ˈʋairs/ any more, anymore #113
- Macedonian никој[ˈnikɔj] no, not any #128
- Malay daging/ˈdaɡeŋ/ Any sort of flesh #686
- Malayalam വിരൽ/ʋiɾɐl/ digit, any of the narrow appendages of the… #1,181
- Norwegian noensinne/ˈnuːənˌsɪnə/ ever, at any time #777
- Persian زنا[ze.nɒː] zina, any kind of premarital or extramarital… #2,114
- Polish kiedykolwiek/kjɛ.dɘˈkɔl.vjɛk/ at any time, whenever, ever #690
- Portuguese alguma/awˈɡũ.mɐ/ some, any #129
- Romanian orice/orʲ.ˈt͡ʃe/ #188
- Russian больше[ˈbolʲʂɨ] any more #87
- Serbian ikada/îkada/ ever, at any time #480
- Slovak akýkoľvek/ˈakiːkɔʎvɛk/ #1,448
- Spanish alguna/alˈɡuna/ some, any #233
- Swedish något/ˈnoːˌɡɔt/ any, some, anything, something #108
- Tamil சும்மா/tʃʊmːɑː/ leisurely, without any occupation or work,… #564
- Telugu బంతి/ˈbanti/ a ball of any kind #409
- Turkish yılan/jɯ.ˈɫɑn/ snake, any legless reptile of the suborder… #1,848
- Ukrainian любий[ˈlʲubei̯] any, either, whichever one wants #787
- Urdu کوئی/koː.iː/ #32
- Vietnamese em[ʔɛm˧˧] pronoun used to refer to any person described… #24
The speaker reads the word in the voice the LangX app uses for that language — synthesised, not a recording of a native speaker, so treat it as a guide. A row without a button has no reading we are free to use, or none we trust, yet. Voices for Bengali (google (bn_BD), CC BY-SA 4.0), Catalan (upc_ona (ca_ES), CC BY-SA 4.0), Estonian (news (et_EE), CC BY 4.0) and Vietnamese (vais1000 (vi_VN), CC BY 4.0).
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.