How to say “away” in 53 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 Vietnamese, where đi is the 8th most used word.
- Afrikaans weg #95
- Albanian larg far, far away, afar, away. in space or time #227
- Arabic عن off, away from #22
- Armenian տար to carry; to carry away or off, to take away;… #435
- Basque kendu to take away, to remove #182
- Bengali দান act of giving, and of giving away #1,080
- Bosnian odvesti to take, take away #761
- Bulgarian веднага immediately; right away #213
- Catalan deixa to leave away #203
- Chinese 拿走 to take something away #419
- Croatian odvesti to take, take away #661
- Czech hned immediately, right away #199
- Danish straks at once, immediately, straight away, right… #699
- Dutch die that; referring to a thing or a person… #23
- English out Away from the inside or centre #50
- Esperanto for away, far, gone #163
- Estonian ära #22
- Finnish pois away, off #92
- French partir to go away, leave, depart #249
- Galician parte to go away, to leave, to depart #192
- Georgian ახლავე right away, right now, now, this instant #400
- German weg #128
- Greek αμέσως immediately, at once, straight away #297
- Hebrew ברח to run away #1,155
- Hindi भागने to flee; run away; escape #2,103
- Hungarian azonnal immediately, at once, right away #314
- Icelandic frá from, away from, about #39
- Indonesian meninggal to pass away #391
- Italian via #165
- Korean 작고 death; passing away #1,163
- Latvian aiziet to leave, to go away, to escape #100
- Lithuanian šalin away, aside, out #804
- Macedonian далеку far, far away #419
- Malay meninggal to die; to pass away #510
- Malayalam കളയുക to throw away #1,799
- Norwegian borte #234
- Persian دور #166
- Polish odejść to leave; to go away; to walk away #813
- Portuguese embora away; hence #220
- Romanian încolo thither, away, that way #1,540
- Russian далеко far, far off, far away #704
- Serbian odvesti to take, take away #882
- Slovak preč #162
- Slovenian od from, away from #37
- Spanish lejos far, far away #520
- Swedish bort away, off #188
- Tagalog umalis to go away #79
- Tamil போ to go, go away, proceed, depart #313
- Telugu త్రోయు to push aside or away #660
- Turkish kaçmak to run away, to escape #1,824
- Ukrainian геть far away #417
- Urdu ابھی immediately, right away, shortly, at once,… #120
- Vietnamese đi away; out of sight #8
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.