How to say “apartment” in 40 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 Chinese, where 房子 is the 105th most used word.
- Afrikaans woonstel An apartment #527
- Albanian apartament #1,587
- Arabic شقة apartment, flat #997
- Armenian բնակարան flat, apartment #1,584
- Bengali ফ্ল্যাট #1,952
- Bosnian stan flat, apartment #657
- Bulgarian апартамент flat, rooms, apartment, suite #1,225
- Chinese 房子 house; home; apartment #105
- Croatian stan flat, apartment #646
- Czech byt apartment, flat #1,167
- Danish lejlighed apartment, flat #900
- Dutch appartement an apartment #1,233
- English bedroom A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other… #1,930
- Esperanto apartamento apartment, flat #1,789
- Estonian korter #1,398
- French appartement apartment, flat #1,014
- Greek διαμέρισμα apartment, flat #983
- Hebrew דירה #1,094
- Icelandic herbergi room, apartment #452
- Indonesian apartemen #1,311
- Italian appartamento apartment, flat #992
- Korean 아파트 apartment building, block of flats #1,039
- Latvian dzīvoklī #1,884
- Lithuanian butas flat, apartment #1,325
- Macedonian стан flat, apartment #775
- Malay pangsapuri apartment, flat: a self-contained housing… #2,163
- Norwegian leiligheten a flat or apartment #1,153
- Persian آپارتمان flat, apartment #1,023
- Polish mieszkania apartment, flat #1,721
- Portuguese apartamento flat, apartment #940
- Romanian apartament #1,262
- Serbian stan flat, apartment #680
- Slovak byt apartment, flat #465
- Slovenian apartma #1,298
- Spanish apartamento flat, apartment #1,237
- Swedish lägenhet apartment, flat #1,126
- Tagalog apartment #2,238
- Tamil அறை room, apartment, chamber, cell #344
- Telugu గది room, apartment, closet #248
- Ukrainian квартира apartment, flat #1,921
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.