How to say “complete” in 41 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 Turkish, where tamam is the 28th most used word.
- Afrikaans gaaf whole, complete #297
- Albanian mbaruar to complete, to finish #501
- Arabic صحيح complete, perfect, whole #65
- Basque osoa complete, entire #190
- Bosnian svih all, complete, whole #485
- Bulgarian пълен full, complete, integral #846
- Catalan acabat to finish, complete #297
- Chinese 完成 to complete; to finish; to fulfill #143
- Croatian svih all, complete, whole #485
- Czech dokončit to complete, to finish #1,813
- Danish hele whole, entire, complete, full #118
- Dutch hele complete, full, whole #203
- English why Introducing a complete question #73
- Esperanto plena full, complete #757
- Estonian täielik complete, entire, full, total #734
- French fini to finish, end, complete #305
- Galician total complete, entire #1,091
- German ganze entire, whole, complete #282
- Greek ολόκληρη whole, entire, complete #1,155
- Hebrew שלם complete, intact #958
- Hindi पूर्ण complete, whole, entire #1,304
- Hungarian végezni to finish, to end, to complete #2,491
- Icelandic algjör total, complete, absolute, dead #701
- Indonesian selesaikan to finish; to complete; to done #1,095
- Italian completo complete, entire, full, whole #1,897
- Latvian pilnīgi complete, full, completely, fully; adverbial… #373
- Malay sempurna perfect; complete; full #570
- Malayalam മുഴു full, complete, perfect #2,176
- Persian تمام #84
- Polish cały whole, complete, entire; all #225
- Portuguese terminar to finish; to complete #1,238
- Romanian termina to finish, complete #941
- Russian полный full, complete #1,400
- Serbian svih all, complete, whole #472
- Spanish completo full, complete #1,204
- Tagalog ginawa complete aspect of gawin #146
- Tamil முடியாது to end, to conclude, to be complete, as in… #32
- Turkish tamam complete, without defects #28
- Ukrainian закінчити to end, to finish, to complete, to conclude #1,720
- Urdu مکمل #230
- Vietnamese xong to end, to complete #364
Knowing the word is the easy half.
Using it with someone who speaks the language is the half that sticks.