How to say “camera” in 33 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 카메라 is the 570th most used word.
- Afrikaans kamera #948
- Arabic كاميرا #1,265
- Bengali ক্যামেরা #590
- Bosnian kamera video camera #1,425
- Bulgarian камера compartment, camera #1,381
- Catalan càmera #1,192
- Croatian kamera video camera #1,427
- Czech kameru #2,270
- Dutch camera #831
- Estonian kaamera #998
- Finnish kamera #2,135
- French caméra video camera #1,459
- German kamera #1,324
- Greek κάμερα #1,064
- Hebrew מצלמה #1,187
- Hindi कैमरा #1,394
- Hungarian kamera #1,903
- Icelandic myndavél #1,335
- Indonesian kamera #710
- Italian telecamere television camera #2,230
- Korean 카메라 #570
- Latvian kameras #1,229
- Macedonian камера #1,224
- Malay kamera #608
- Malayalam കാമറ #1,117
- Norwegian kameraet a camera #1,686
- Polish kamery video camera #2,120
- Serbian kamera video camera #1,501
- Slovak kamery #769
- Swedish kameran #1,554
- Tagalog kamera #1,711
- Turkish kamera video camera #1,287
- Urdu کیمرہ #1,287
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.