How to say “bed” in 48 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 Afrikaans, where bed is the 314th most used word.
- Afrikaans bed #314
- Albanian shtrat #800
- Arabic سرير bed, bedstead #1,558
- Armenian անկողին #519
- Basque ohean #520
- Bengali বিছানা #1,141
- Bosnian krevet #647
- Bulgarian легло #1,513
- Catalan llit #475
- Chinese 床上 on the bed #480
- Croatian krevet #674
- Czech postele #1,060
- Danish seng #495
- Dutch bed patch, bed #459
- Esperanto lito #925
- Estonian voodi #1,118
- Finnish nukkumaan to bed #1,050
- Galician cama #490
- German bett #548
- Greek κρεβάτι #620
- Hebrew מיטה a bed #2,007
- Hindi बिस्तर bed, mattress, bedding #699
- Hungarian ágyban #1,932
- Icelandic rúminu #797
- Indonesian ranjang #2,309
- Korean 침대 #723
- Latvian gultā #985
- Lithuanian lova #1,191
- Macedonian кревет #551
- Malay katil #1,072
- Malayalam കിടക്ക #668
- Norwegian senga a bed #1,420
- Polish łóżka #1,151
- Portuguese cama #538
- Romanian pat #654
- Russian кровать #2,114
- Serbian krevet #637
- Slovak posteľ #896
- Slovenian postelja #1,120
- Spanish cama #537
- Swedish sängen a bed #1,100
- Tagalog kama #359
- Tamil படுக்கை #866
- Telugu పడక #1,750
- Turkish yatak bed, a piece of furniture on which to rest or… #978
- Ukrainian ліжко #1,354
- Urdu بستر bed, mattress #1,035
- Vietnamese giường #936
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.