How to say “carry” in 42 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 Spanish, where hacer is the 68th most used word.
- Afrikaans dra to carry #279
- Albanian çoj to awaken, send, carry on, dispatch, stir up #768
- Arabic حمل to carry, to transport, to convey #1,282
- Armenian տար to carry; to carry away or off, to take away;… #435
- Basque eraman to take, carry #124
- Bosnian nosi to carry, bring #698
- Bulgarian правя to do, to perform, to carry out #199
- Catalan porta to carry #207
- Chinese 進行 to proceed with; to carry out; to conduct; to… #1,248
- Croatian nosi to carry, bring #782
- Danish bar to carry #1,050
- Dutch brengen to bring, to carry #372
- English wear To carry or have equipped on or about one's… #779
- Esperanto portas to carry #724
- Estonian kandma to carry #1,252
- Finnish tehdä to do, perform, execute, carry out #81
- French porte to carry #284
- Galician levar to take, to carry, to transport #386
- German tragen to carry, to bear #808
- Greek φέρω to bear, carry #573
- Hungarian hoztam to bring, to carry #782
- Icelandic bera to carry, to bear #522
- Indonesian bawa to carry, bring, take #264
- Lithuanian vykdyti to execute, implement, carry out #1,761
- Macedonian носи to carry, bear #431
- Malay bawa to carry #166
- Persian برنده to bear; to carry; to take #470
- Polish wynoś to carry out, to take out #1,672
- Portuguese cumprir to carry out, to do, to perform #2,221
- Romanian duc to carry, lead, take #218
- Russian носить to carry, to bear #2,162
- Serbian nosi to carry, bring #689
- Slovak nosiť to carry #807
- Slovenian nositi to carry #715
- Spanish hacer to do, perform, execute, carry out #68
- Swedish bär to carry; to lift and transport anywhere else #870
- Tagalog magdala to carry #803
- Tamil எடு to take, pick up, carry #498
- Telugu నిర్వహించు to manage, carry through, perform #1,956
- Turkish geçirmek To take or carry something from one place or… #1,305
- Ukrainian нести to carry #2,188
- Vietnamese mang to carry #316
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.