How to say “born” in 30 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 Urdu, where پیدا is the 248th most used word.
- Albanian lindur to be born #672
- Armenian ծնված to be born #420
- Basque sortu to originate, to emerge, to be born #350
- Bosnian rođen #1,543
- Catalan néixer to be born #1,241
- Chinese 出生 to be born #423
- Croatian rođen #1,539
- Dutch geboren #933
- English birthday The anniversary of the day on which someone… #763
- Esperanto naskiĝis to be born #678
- Finnish syntyi to be born #2,482
- French né to be born #1,620
- Galician naceu to be born #1,579
- Georgian დაბადებული #630
- Greek γεννήθηκε to be born, originate #2,086
- Hebrew נולד to be born #1,318
- Hindi पैदा #528
- Icelandic fæddur #1,588
- Italian nato #1,561
- Korean 나다 to be born #2,265
- Latvian dzimšanas being born, birth; verbal noun of dzimt #644
- Malay lahir to be born, to give birth, to bear #794
- Norwegian født #751
- Persian متولد #1,278
- Portuguese nasceu to be born #2,301
- Romanian născut #990
- Serbian rođen #1,503
- Tamil பிறந்த to be born #469
- Telugu జన్మించాడు to be born #866
- Urdu پیدا #248
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.