How to say “article” in 38 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 Malay, where yang is the 2nd most used word.
- Afrikaans artikel #803
- Albanian artikull #2,467
- Bengali চিজ thing, article #2,028
- Bosnian članak #2,114
- Bulgarian статия #2,340
- Catalan la the; feminine singular definite article #4
- Chinese 文章 essay; composition; article #1,003
- Croatian članak #1,918
- Czech článek #1,880
- Danish de plural definite article #22
- Dutch artikel #2,141
- English shirt An article of clothing that is worn on the… #1,583
- Esperanto vestaĵojn garment, article of clothing, piece of… #1,633
- Estonian punkti #1,335
- French article merchandise, sales article #1,679
- Galician o masculine singular definite article; the #3
- German dem nominative masculine singular definite… #50
- Greek ο the definite masculine singular article. the #11
- Hebrew כתבה A news article, a report #1,718
- Hindi कपड़े clothing; article of clothing #702
- Indonesian si definite article used before the names of… #284
- Italian articolo #2,061
- Korean 물건 item, article, thing, stuff #673
- Malay yang An article that denotes a noun with the… #2
- Malayalam ലേഖനം #1,171
- Norwegian de definite article, equivalent to "the", used… #24
- Persian مقاله #1,319
- Portuguese mais preceded by the definitive article, used to… #28
- Romanian haine garment, garb, article of clothing #1,173
- Serbian članak #1,939
- Slovak predmet object, article #1,878
- Slovenian članek #852
- Spanish artículo #2,330
- Tagalog artikulo #2,023
- Tamil கட்டுரை essay, article #2,009
- Telugu వస్తువు a thing, article, matter, substance #475
- Turkish madde #1,813
- Ukrainian товар commodity, article, product #2,247
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.