How to say “come” in 53 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 Swedish, where har is the 9th most used word.
- Afrikaans kom #33
- Albanian hajde come on, c'mon #130
- Arabic هيا come on!; let's; let's go! #58
- Armenian գալիս to come #82
- Basque etorri to come #49
- Bengali হবে to be, to become; to come into existence #14
- Bosnian došao to come, arrive #268
- Bulgarian хайде come on! #87
- Catalan tornar to return, to go/come back #211
- Chinese 遇到 to come across; to encounter; to have; to… #252
- Croatian došao to come, arrive #243
- Czech došlo to arrive, to come #900
- Danish kom to come #49
- Dutch kom to come #78
- English meet To come face to face with by accident; to… #312
- Esperanto venu to come #91
- Estonian tuleb to come #129
- Finnish tule to come #86
- French viens to come #156
- Galician veña to come #125
- Georgian მოდის to come #526
- German komm to come; to arrive #115
- Greek έλα to come #86
- Hebrew בא To come #249
- Hindi आ to come, approach, draw near; to arrive, reach #96
- Hungarian gyerünk to come #101
- Icelandic koma to come #68
- Indonesian ayo come on! #63
- Italian vieni to come #244
- Korean 어째서 why, for what reason, how come #542
- Latvian nāc to come #127
- Lithuanian ateik to come, to arrive #217
- Macedonian дојде to come, arrive #138
- Malay datang to come #55
- Malayalam വന്ന് to come #164
- Norwegian kom to come; to approach or move towards the… #47
- Persian برگرد to return, to come back #448
- Polish wrócić to come back, to go back, to return #471
- Portuguese volta to return; to come back #212
- Romanian haide come on, c'mon #127
- Russian вернуться to return, to come back #458
- Serbian došao to come, arrive #244
- Slovak prišiel to arrive, to come #171
- Slovenian priti to come #241
- Spanish ven to come, by default the speaker's location #239
- Swedish har To have; to possess, or to have as a… #9
- Tagalog halika come here! #150
- Tamil வா to come, arrive #76
- Telugu వచ్చింది to come, arrive #28
- Turkish olduğunu to become, come to exist, come into being #41
- Ukrainian давай come on! #67
- Urdu آیا to come, to arrive #169
- Vietnamese lộ to come out; to be discovered #863
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.