How to say “center” in 34 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 Vietnamese, where giữa is the 537th most used word.
- Albanian qendër center; headquarters #1,077
- Arabic وسط amidst, midst, at the center of, in the… #618
- Bengali সদর #2,099
- Bosnian centar center / centre #1,217
- Catalan centre #935
- Croatian centar center / centre #1,331
- English brain The control center of the central nervous… #911
- Esperanto centro center, centre #957
- Estonian keskus centre/center #1,818
- French centre centre, center #964
- German city city center, downtown, central business… #1,718
- Greek κέντρο centre, center: the middle of something or… #750
- Hebrew מרכז center, centre #1,270
- Hungarian központ center, central point, central office,… #2,349
- Indonesian otak The control center of the central nervous… #808
- Italian centro centre, center #861
- Korean 가운데 center; the middle #1,081
- Latvian centrā #1,572
- Lithuanian centras #1,113
- Macedonian средина middle, center #1,800
- Malayalam കേന്ദ്രം #1,294
- Persian مرکز centre, center #578
- Polish środku middle, center #673
- Romanian mijlocul middle, center, mean #1,077
- Russian центр center, centre #1,703
- Serbian centar center / centre #1,217
- Slovak centrum #1,171
- Slovenian središče #1,182
- Spanish centro #810
- Tagalog gitna center; middle #724
- Turkish merkezi #1,210
- Ukrainian центр centre, center #1,252
- Urdu مرکز centre, center #718
- Vietnamese giữa in the middle; in the center; amidst;… #537
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.