How to say “arrive” in 39 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 Telugu, where వచ్చింది is the 28th most used word.
- Afrikaans aankom #724
- Albanian vjen to arrive #84
- Armenian կանխել to arrive beforehand, to anticipate #1,017
- Basque iritsi to arrive, to reach #175
- Bengali পৌঁছানো to arrive #2,160
- Bosnian došao to come, arrive #268
- Bulgarian пристигна to arrive #1,468
- Catalan arribar to arrive #308
- Chinese 得出 to reach; to obtain; to arrive at #1,548
- Croatian došao to come, arrive #243
- Czech došlo to arrive, to come #900
- Dutch bereikt to arrive at, to reach, to get to #1,850
- Esperanto alvenis to arrive #380
- Finnish pääse to get to, reach, arrive at/in #612
- French arrive to arrive #207
- Galician chegar to arrive #340
- German komm to come; to arrive #115
- Greek φτάσει to arrive #1,075
- Hebrew הגיע to arrive, to get, to reach #262
- Hindi पहुँचने to arrive, reach #1,273
- Hungarian ért to reach, arrive, get somewhere #757
- Italian arrivato to arrive, to come, to reach #655
- Latvian tika to arrive at #234
- Lithuanian ateik to come, to arrive #217
- Macedonian дојде to come, arrive #138
- Persian آمد to come, to arrive #931
- Polish przyszedł to come, to arrive #864
- Portuguese chegar to arrive; to reach #303
- Russian прийти to come, to arrive #1,048
- Serbian došao to come, arrive #244
- Slovak prišiel to arrive, to come #171
- Slovenian pristati to land, to arrive at the shore #1,458
- Spanish llegar to arrive, get #399
- Tagalog dumating to arrive; to come; to reach #208
- Tamil வா to come, arrive #76
- Telugu వచ్చింది to come, arrive #28
- Turkish vardı to arrive; to reach a location #144
- Ukrainian прийти to arrive, to come #676
- Urdu آیا to come, to arrive #169
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.