How to say “appear” in 36 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 Hindi, where लगता is the 63rd most used word.
- Afrikaans opdaag to show up, to appear #2,254
- Albanian duket to seem, appear, look #98
- Arabic عرض to appear #395
- Armenian ներկայանալ to appear, to come forward, to present… #745
- Basque agertu to appear, become visible #408
- Bosnian pojavio to appear, emerge #1,276
- Catalan aparèixer to appear #1,825
- Chinese 像是 to seem as if; to appear #159
- Croatian pojavio to appear, emerge #1,296
- Czech vypadá to appear, look like, seem #222
- Dutch lijkt to seem, appear #248
- English seems To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived… #499
- Esperanto aspektas to appear; to look like #283
- French paraît to appear #1,206
- Galician parece to seem, appear #228
- Georgian ეტყობა to appear, to seem #1,387
- Greek φαίνεται to seem, appear #184
- Hebrew הופיע to appear #1,455
- Hindi लगता to seem, appear #63
- Icelandic birtast to appear, to show up, to reveal oneself #1,704
- Italian sembra to seem, to look, to appear #174
- Lithuanian pasirodyti to appear #1,006
- Macedonian изгледа to look, appear, seem #122
- Malay kelihatan to look; to appear; to seem #330
- Norwegian synes to appear, seem #362
- Persian نما to show, to cause to appear, to exhibit #2,280
- Polish wygląda to look, to look like, to appear #191
- Portuguese aparecer to appear #1,117
- Romanian apărut to appear, show up, turn up, emerge #959
- Russian выглядеть to look, to appear, to seem #1,759
- Serbian pojavio to appear, emerge #1,245
- Spanish aparece to appear, to turn up, to pop up, to come up #2,261
- Tagalog magpakita to reveal; to show up; to appear to someone #1,307
- Telugu కనిపిస్తుంది to seem, appear, be seen, be visible, come or… #182
- Urdu لگے to seem, to appear #542
- Vietnamese dường to seem; to appear #1,350
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.