How to say “border” 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 Korean, where 가 is the 89th most used word.
- Afrikaans grens border, frontier #771
- Albanian kufirin border, confines, limit #1,796
- Arabic حافة edge, border #1,845
- Basque muga limit, border, frontier #734
- Bengali সীমানা boundary, border, periphery #1,763
- Bosnian granica #2,032
- Catalan frontera border, frontier #2,091
- Croatian granica #2,125
- Czech hranice border, boundary, borderline #1,658
- Danish grænsen #1,664
- Dutch boord border, boundary #1,223
- Esperanto limo border, frontier, boundary #1,819
- French bord border, edge, limit; boundary #931
- Galician beira border, edge, brim, limit #1,267
- German grenze to border #1,927
- Greek όρια limit, boundary; border, dividing line #1,771
- Hebrew גבול A border, a boundary, a limit, a line: a line… #1,618
- Hindi तट border, brink #1,445
- Indonesian batas #1,222
- Italian bordo edge, border, margin, hem, rim #1,578
- Korean 가 border, edge, end #89
- Macedonian граница #1,933
- Malay sempadan border; boundary; frontier #1,030
- Malayalam അതിര് border, boundary #496
- Norwegian grensen a border #1,631
- Persian حد limit, border, boundary #553
- Portuguese fronteira #2,196
- Serbian granica #2,083
- Slovak hranice #970
- Slovenian meje border, boundary #742
- Swedish gränsen bound, boundary; the border of a territory #1,441
- Tagalog gilid border; edge; margin; rim; corner #1,055
- Telugu అంచు skirt, border of a cloth #944
- Turkish sınır #2,130
- Ukrainian кордон #2,294
- Urdu سرحد border, frontier #1,020
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.