How to say “case” in 45 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 نے is the 12th most used word.
- Albanian çështje #677
- Arabic قضية case, lawsuit #429
- Bosnian slučaj case, occurrence, event, incident #497
- Bulgarian ние we; the first-person plural pronoun in the… #96
- Catalan casos #1,362
- Chinese 要是 if; in case #82
- Croatian slučaj case, occurrence, event, incident #421
- Czech případ #596
- Danish hende objective case of hun: her #62
- Dutch geval case, situation, instance #548
- English themselves The reflexive case of they, the third-person… #1,136
- Esperanto ĉiukaze in any case; anyhow #1,432
- Estonian puhul on, for, regarding, in case of #753
- Finnish varalta just in case #2,325
- French cause #387
- Georgian შემთხვევაში in case of #395
- German sache matter, affair, case, question, issue #318
- Greek περίπτωση #568
- Hebrew ובכן well, then, in that case #93
- Hindi ने marker of the ergative case with… #121
- Hungarian úgyis anyway, in any case, one way or another,… #1,122
- Icelandic dæmis example, case in point #989
- Indonesian kasus #405
- Italian comunque anyhow, in any case, regardless #346
- Korean 그럼 then, in that case #26
- Lithuanian byla lawsuit, case #957
- Macedonian случај case, situation #272
- Malay kalau if, in case #71
- Malayalam എന്നോട് sociative case case of എൻ; me #49
- Norwegian meg objective case of jeg: me #16
- Persian مورد case; instance #79
- Romanian cazul case, circumstance, situation #359
- Russian тебя second-person singular, nominative case: you,… #25
- Serbian slučaj case, occurrence, event, incident #470
- Slovak prípad #354
- Slovenian zaboj crate, trunk, case #1,338
- Spanish yo first-person singular pronoun in the… #30
- Swedish han he, the third person singular, masculine,… #14
- Tagalog sakali in case; if ever; if by chance; perchance #1,313
- Tamil முதல் from; termination of the ablative case #95
- Telugu యొక్క marker of the genitive case: of #16
- Turkish öyleyse then, in that case #374
- Ukrainian якщо if, in case introduces a real condition; for… #44
- Urdu نے The marker of the ergative case with… #12
- Vietnamese giá if; in case; supposing; if only; I wish #361
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.